What a shame. Teenage jobs are as much about responsibility and teaching as they are about money, and that opportunity is lost to parents.
Why not make it $100.00 an hour ?
Not to worry. The employers will just hire illegals and pay them under the table.
On the other hand, increases in the minmum wage have been positively correlated to increased male dropout rates from high school.
Employers only can afford so much payroll. People are going to have to work smarter. The most productive (whether teen or adult) will be the ones that keep their jobs. IMO
"Companies maintain the new wage was raised to $6.75 per hour from $5.15 per hour to help the breadwinners in working-poor families. Teens typically have other means of support.
What baloney. They'll keep the ones who can do the most work. Teenagers could compete at that, if they got into it.
white teenagers to suffer most.
(sounds like a dem-wit idea to me)
But Bush said these are jobs no American is willing to do...
You are so right on this. The learning of self-dependence, work ethic, discipline, and even working skills are lost to the intervention in the free market of the government, and leads to the socialism that is the agenda intended: dependence on the government to survive.
Where the "old days" of part-time jobs, then military service, then college taught us the discipline needed to lead a productive, responsible, and morally-principled, and fulfilling life, we have taken the opportunity away for this evolving, maturing experience, for the sake of political motivation (buying of votes from the bottom of the payroll).
When you see those bloviating millionaires in Congress extolling their elitist socialism using the rhetoric of the "poor families, poverty-stricken, single parents, etc." and how they're going to "give tax relief" and "provide a LIVING WAGE" as if they're the only ones who can save the irresponsible self-destructive low-end lifestylers from their own destruction, you could puke......
Let's hear this again. Clinton increased minimum wages in 1993 and US unemployment went down in the years that followed. Minimum wage does not affect employment as much as an expanding economy that produces jobs in the US. Granted excesses in anything will kill its good intentions. Example $ 100 per hour minimum wage. You can keep the old minimum wage, but outsource jobs overseas, import H-1B workers willing to work for half of US tech workers, and hire illegal immigrants due to US open borders policy, and most Americans will face job insecurity and wage depression no matter what the minimum wage is. Furthermore it is hard for employers in general to complain, consider the fact many corporations have record profits and the CEO's salaries have doubled or tripled in the last 12 years while most working people just kept up with inflation and went up and down as companies hire and fire them, and they had to network to find the next temporary job after losing the last one to cheap overseas labor and mergers.
And this is surprising...how?
bttt
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . . . the Law of Intended Consequences strikes again!!
This is why politicians should NEVER be allowed to run private businesses - they have no clue about economics or finance.
Clearly, this will be spun as Bush's fault to make sure that these teens never go off the liberal reservation.
Grocery store chains in AZ fight over getting baggers who are somewhat retarded or mentally slow. Unlike "normal" kids, the handicapped are good, reliable workers, on time every day.
One chain, now defunct, was surprised by getting applications by a bunch of "normal" teenage girls who did show up to work on time. Until it was discovered that when male customers would hit on them, the girls would offer sex for money. They ran a successful prostitution ring for the better part of a year. Bagger by day, hooker by night.
Perhaps foolishly, the grocery store where they worked fired them when it found out. Foolish because their union cashiers were not happy about bagging for a few weeks until they could hire more baggers. And also foolish because they lost a lot of male customers who would buy hundreds of dollars of groceries there, too.
....just hire more illegals.
"problem solved"
Sigh.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus