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Originally posted by djtestudo
How is he wrong? Looks to me like your evidence supports his view more then yours.
From your first source.
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Run a search and read the act.
It's pretty explicit that it doesn't refer to "teenagers" or other unskilled workers.
How can we induce this?
By the fact that minimum wage laws don't encompass unskilled laborers. That is, one can pay unskilled workers and entry positions
less than the minimum wage. The rest of the act delineates who is subjected to the legislation--and it refers to skilled laborer positions.
The buying power of the minimum wage speaks to the
effect of making more than $5 dollars per hour. It doesn't address what the writers
intended the act to protect--liveable wages. ustwo claimed that minimum wages were never
intended to protect liveable wages. He's historically wrong--it's a fact one can google, not something I inferred from those two sources.