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To: TimF who wrote (46611)	5/11/2001 5:19:40 PM
From: willcousa	Respond to of 70976

OT The greater question on the minimum wage IMHO is whether it benefits the wage earner or just inflates cost and becomes a zero sum game.

To: TimF who wrote (46611)	5/11/2001 5:33:39 PM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

OT >>Most minimum wage earners do not fully support themselves or anyone else with the money from the minimum wage job.<< Do you have statistics for that assertion? Drive through any affluent suburb on a weekday. You'll see plenty of landscape crews and plenty of maid service vans, all populated by adults (the kids are in school) working full-time minimum wage jobs. Lots of minimum wage adults work all night cleaning offices, too. That nice saccharin phrase, "working poor" includes lots of people who work two or more minimum wage jobs doing back-breaking physical labor and still don't earn enough to feed and house themselves and their families. Katherine