"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.
If they quit school to compete with an illegal alien desparate for it, you mean? One willing to work for less than minimum, take it in cash and shut up about it?