Yes this minimum wage thing is so convoluted. Remember when all the workers at Mickey Dee’s were high school kids? That’s the way its supposed to be. That’s how you keep the fast food cheap. They are entry level jobs not careers. Waiting tables in a restaurant should not be a career. Its a stepping stone.
Now that we have lost over 7 million manufacturing jobs which do pay fairly well people end up in service jobs. Our whole economy is going to end up as a service economy if we are not careful and that will truly be the end of us.
Wasn’t making hamburgers reclassified as a manufacturing job during the Bush years?