RE: These types of women used to work in manufacturing and make a decent wage but now they work at Burger King.
They should try moving to places like Seattle, where the minimum wage is soon to become $15/hour.
Of course whether or not they can afford the cost of living there is another matter...
“used to work in manufacturing and make a decent wage but now they work at Burger King. They should try moving to places like Seattle, where the minimum wage is soon to become $15/hour.”
...except that restaurants are fleeing Seattle. Can’t get a $15/hr minwage job at BK if there’s no BK in the $15/hr minwage region.
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.