70 Tries After Seattle Raised Its Minimum Wage, I Still Can’t Find A Job

The Federalist ^ | April 04, 2016 | Mitch Hall

[caww]

He won’t be the only one....raising wages as much as they’re doing will boot these students out of the market....without some form of commitent....this guy couldn’t give that since he was on “College Break” as he mentioned further in the article.... it would be easy to pick out the guy wasn’t interested in anything more than funding his “vacation”.

[Red Badger]

Dog-sh!t has no use. It doesn't even make good fertilizer.

I don't know about that, but I planted a rose bush in my former home's yard once, and dug the hole a bit too deep. So I went around the yard and collected all my dog's waste and filled the bottom of the hole with it. When planted, it was just a foot tall, roots wrapped in sawdust and plastic, like you by at any home and garden store. When we moved about ten years later, the rose was nearly six feet tall, and was about 5 feet in diameter and had abundant blossoms all over it every year!....................

[dfwgator]

I’m a young, educated, white male who comes from an upper-middle-class background.

[Red Badger]

All of the above. For federal workers, or federal contract workers, it’s covered under the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931. Individual states have what are termed ‘prevailing wage laws’ that are basicall the same thing for their workers..............

[Red Badger]

I didn’t catch his job skill or educational major he’s trying for, did you?....................

[bgill]

The author, Mitch Hall is a student at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, former intern for The Federalist, and an alum of the National Journalism Center in Washington DC. He works for the Family Policy Institute of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and continues to write about contemporary political issues

IOW, he's writing fiction here. He has a job, freelances and is in school. No way employers are going to hire him. They smell a fraud and a law suit.

[caver]

“temporary and seasonal work....”

I think I see the problem.

[dfwgator]

The author, Mitch Hall is a student at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia,

That won't do now.

[mountainfolk]

My husband started his official, outside of family, job at age 12 as a paid dishwasher in a Greek restaurant in Calif. They moved him up to food prep etc. and he still fancies himself a chef type because of what he learned from those Greeks. Went on to the army and then graduated from Geo Wash Univ with several degrees. I say to the kid on College Break, no job is too small when you need the paycheck for family or self. Get started on what is available and the sky is the limit.

[IC Ken]

Re> If it’s this difficult for me to land an entry-level, minimum-wage position, then what must it be like for more disadvantaged individuals

So this guy isn't qualified enough to flip a burger BUT exceeds what the modern media accepts as a journalist.

[Rockpile]

Hint to Mitch-——change your name to Manuel Achmed Fujimoto. It will help on your Seattle job applications.

[econjack]

The fact that minimum wage people believe this crap is probably why they’re making minimum wage.

[Night Hides Not]

Better hint: claim you’re a transgender, and you’ll be hired on the spot.

[bert]

The fact you moved to Seattle is reason enough not to hire you

that is an indicator of stupid

[dhs12345]

Apparently the lie works well for the Democrats.

[tbw2]

Or he needs to specifically look at freelancing and short term job sites for work instead of applying for longer term positions.

[Pknicker]

The so-called minimum wage should be properly identified as the minimum legal wage; the true minimum wage is now and always will be $0.00 per hour. Raising the minimum legal wage does two things: introduces the masses to the true minimum wage and encourages business to automate.

[Kenton]

"Soon, the idiots in CA will be able to say: “I’ll make $15/hour...if I could just find a job."

If it's that bad, businesses can require a bachelors' degree for a $15/hour entry level job, after a minimum of one year as a intern.

Unwed mothers and minorities hit hardest.

[I want the USA back]

More and more manufacturing is going to Mexico. I really think the democrat party wants to turn this country into a third world country.

[Hojczyk]

A good waitress or waiter in a good restaurant or county club makes more than 15 dollars an hour

she gets a pay cut

Golf clubs here tack 18%