Posted on 04/17/2009 12:56:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
“gee - I wonder if $9 an hour minimum wage has anything to do with it?”
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I would suspect not a lot, even though I am not a supporter of minimum wage laws, $9.00 an hour in California is a pauper’s wage not even equal in buying power to the 1963 minimum wage of $1.25. It would seem that the influx of illegals would have a lot more to do with it.
I suspect that the real unemployment figures are even worse bearing in mind that every one hired by the government is counted as employed when in reality most of them are just a huge burden on the taxpayers, producing nothing of value and in far too many cases they are COUNTER productive. Personally I think a new government hire should be counted as TWO UNemployed rather than one employed.
California unemployment rises to record 11.2 percent
Seismically induced...
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