"No, your right, the minimum wage is wrong.
It basically leads to an increas in the supply of labour, i.e. an increase in unemployment, particularily for older unskilled workers.
But when you have a flood of illegals putting downward pressure on wages, you alter tha labor market in favor of businesses looking to hire low wage workers.
Take away the illegals and wages would tend to equilibrium.
Whew, some of the old university economics coming back to me."
yep
EVERY TIME THE MINIMUM WAGE GOES UP
SO DO THE UNION WAGES
BECAUSE THEY ARE WRITTEN SO THAT THE UNION WORKERS MUST MAKE A CERTAIN AMOUNT ABOVE THE MINIMUM WAGE {varying with each union }
SOMETHING THE DEMS MUST PUSH THROUGH AS PAYBACK!
AND AS A MEANS OF KEEPING THEIR VOTING BLOCK HAPPY!
Minimum wages go UP.....Union workers get RICHER!