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Originally Posted by drakers
The minimum wage should be raised to $8 to $8.50. And most people who do work those are adults (20 and older) or over 65% of the min. wage workers are these adults. Please tell me how adults can live on that little of pay and don't tell me raising it a few dollars won't do a lot for them because would do heaps of things for them. 40 hours x $2.00= $80 more per week or $320 more per month.
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About 2 percent of workers age 25 and over earned the minimum wage or less.
It helps to start your argument using at least a modicum of factual information.
A couple of points:
1) Poverty levels in the U.S. have not changed very much, regardless of the social programs put into place. Increases in minimum wages showed little or no decrease in poverty. Why?
2) A vast majority of people making minimum wage do so only temporarily, usually less than a year.
3) The discussion of income mobility must come in as most of these discussions revolve around a snapshot of information rather than the whole movie. The wealth of a person cannot be defined by examing the information regarding that person in the course of one year.
4) Let the market bear what the market will bear. Forcing it do something it won't/can't do naturally will have negative side effects (i.e. create a black market for labor, under the table dealings, expansion of the already growing underground economy)
5) The number of people earning minimum wage has steadily decreased over the past 30+ years--which is a good sign--once again, the topic of income mobility has to come in to the discussion.
6) Leave it up to the states. What is "fair" in California will put companies out of business in Wyoming.
I am an employer.
I pay people what I can afford to pay them and still make a profit, otherwise, why am I in business?
If you force me to pay people more, I will expect more from them (more in terms of abilities and training).
Most people earning minimum wage = unskilled labor
Make me pay more and I will not hire unskilled labor, it is as simple as that.