I haven't seen a problem with minimum wage around this town.
Places have hired to their capacity. There are just fewer places now that jobs have been exported. Fewer places to work combined with larger population = some go without work. Sky doesn't have to be falling for that to be so. Some would just rather use such rhetoric to paint a rosier picture of things for us all. Kindof a Mr. Rogers "let's make believe" version of the world where all is rosey because Pubs are in office. Not much different from the dim approach.
This is nonsense from my point of view. You can not go in a business in the area that doesn't have a help wanted sign out. Job fairs a Savon, Walmart 30% understaffed (this I know from a manager that works there), entry level jobs at Home Depot paying over $11.00 an hour, there is an entry level crisis in the area.
McDonalds-type teenager jobs have been exported? So I'll have to go to China to "have fries with that?" Give me a break.
You have an anti-free-trade conclusion that's eternally in search of evidence.
Talk about stupid generalizations.