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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: combjelly who wrote (9781)2/7/2017 7:11:42 AM
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This past election, many states passed minimum wages above the federal level.

Seems to me this is something that is appropriately managed at the local level whether state or city. The situation varies by location.

Not all minimum wagers are teenagers, living at home or otherwise. For them, a "training wage" has been proposed.

Somehow along the way something turned backwards and upside down. It used to be that young people started out not earning much money so they shared apartments with roommates who were similarly situated. As their salaries increased, they got apartments on their own or as a couple. Even later they might have children to support. The only need for a minimum wage was protection from sweatshops. There is something wrong with situations where people are trying to support a family on low-paying jobs, something that can't be fixed by the notion of a living wage. That deals with the symptom, not the problem. Mitigating symptoms is rarely the best approach to anything. If people are trying to support families with a job that doesn't pay enough, something has gone wrong. Better to look at what went wrong and focus public policy on it.
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