[ilgipper]

Is he still a cook at KFC? Did he work on sharpening his skills or just expect to do what’s needed to cook fried chicken and expect money to come to him?

[coloradan]

And the higher the minimum wage goes, the harder it will become. One CEO in the Pacific Northwest raised everyone’s salary to $35 / hr ($70k/year) and a lot of those people are never going to see a raise in their lifetimes ... assuming the company is able to remain in business.

[Roger Kaputnik]

From the article: “The trend partly reflects the slow recovery...”

Does anybody aside from the media believe we are in a “recovery”?

[AlaskaErik]

Mr Kemp is 44 years old and doesn't have a high school diploma. I think I'm starting to get the picture. Mr Kemp has done nothing to make himself more employable.

I did stick it out and graduated from high school. Six days later I was a United States Marine recruit. After the Marines, I joined the Guard and I used my GI Bill to get my degree in Accounting. And both of my parents were immigrants, so I had zero help from them. If you want to get somewhere in life, you have work for it. Working at a KFC is probably not going to get you too far, although some people do make it to the managerial level. I suspect Mr Kemp has nothing saved up for retirement and will probably have to work until he dies, because the pittance he's going to get from Social Security isn't going to be enough to live on. There's a part of me that wants to feel sorry him and others like him, but this is the land of opportunity and you have to be willing to put forth in order to succeed.

[Snickering Hound]

There is a reason why Oak Park’s population has been in decline since the 70’s, Anthony...

[Insigne123]

“No one need be ashamed of poverty, the real shame is in not taking measures to escape it.”

Pericles

[stylin19a]

I know what a short-order cooks does.

What does a KFC cook actually do ?

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-is-how-kfc-actually-makes-their-fried-chicken-from-1651170230

[usconservative]

He never did; nine years later, the only raises Kemp, 44, has seen have been the ones required by state law. He earns $8.25, the state’s current minimum wage.

An AMBITIOUS individual, truly looking to better their station in life would NEVER have remained at a minimum wage job for NINE YEARS.

Conclusion: this is NOT an ambitious individual.

[Mamzelle]

I’m not a snob. I happen to love a burger and fries. Today I indulged with my other, a rare indulgence, and it was $16!!! At Hardee’s. Granted, it wasn’t the economy menu today, but I was still surprised.

[ziravan]

Socialism does that to a society: race to the bottom.