[econjack]

The minimum wage has never fulfilled its promise, which was to help young, inexperienced, often minority workers, get a job with an income. It was designed for the young worker to gain experience in the labor force. It was never intended to be a wage that would allow a person to buy a home, especially in CA.

Every time the minimum wage is increased, employers are forced to fire some workers, and those are usually the young, inexperienced, often minority workers. Unemployment for those workers increases...every time! If you want to make a decent wage, invest in yourself. Take some training courses, learn new skills. The most underutilized institution for getting new skills is in the military.

The most young, inexperienced, often minority, workers can say after a minimum wage hike is: "I'd be making more per hour...if I could just find a job."

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The last year the black unemployment rate was lower than the white unemployment rate was the year before the first federal minimum wage law, the Davis-Bacon Act, was passed.

The purpose of the act was to prevent black contractors from underbidding unionized contractors.

[central_va]

This is the ultimate “get off my lawn” issue for old people. Really disgusting.