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To: gogeo

Well, of course. That's because the minimum wage is set as the floor. But to think raising that floor doesn't distort prices is mistaken; look at teen unemployment. As I understand it, the teen employment rate in 2004 was the lowest since 1948.


91 posted on 05/23/2006 10:50:06 AM PDT by mjolnir ("All great change in America begins at the dinner table.")
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To: mjolnir

I agree that minimum wage is an anachronism that should be abolished. My point was that at the current level it isn't distorting the market to a large degree.


109 posted on 05/23/2006 11:21:50 AM PDT by gogeo (The /sarc tag is a form of training wheels for those unable to discern intellectual subtlety.)
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