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Not all workers are covered by the National Minimum Wage. The local ones will take several years to get to $7.50 an hour.
Also, Congress hasn't raised it for 9 years. How do we know it will work this time, or will be pegged to inflation, or won't have wierd exemptions?
This is bad for my kids.
I don't know why people don't understand this. My teenagers can't wait to be old enough to get jobs. As my daughter said, in tears, just this morning. "And it's all because they want to *help* us!" She was talking about the difficulties in getting permission to work before age 16. (She'd have to find a job and *then* get permission from the State Labor department since we homeschool... who's going to hire her if they have no assurance at all that she's going to get the permission she needs, and who'd want the headache if they could just hire someone else without "issues?")
And so it goes with the minimum wage. An employer can only hire someone if the benifit of hiring them exceeds the cost to the employer. Higher minimum wages means fewer available jobs and most certainly fewer jobs for people who aren't assured to be adequately productive from day one... like kids who haven't worked before, who not only need training for the job, but who have to learn *everything* and be taught what other people already know.
My kids don't need to support a family... they need to work. They need to build a history of experience and job recommendations so that they can bring effective knowledge to later, better paying jobs.
The pols can pat themselves on the back and talk how much they've "helped" but it doesn't mean they helped at all.
It seems that all you have said is not backed up by nay facts. In every state that has raised teh minimum wage jobs have increased in number. In not one case has the job pool decreased after a minimum wage raise.
Do minimum wage jobs increase because there are more jobs (and maybe would have been anyway) or do they increase as a percentage of all jobs available? In other words, are there more minimum wage paying jobs because people who used to get more than minimum wage are now making exactly what they made before, only now it's minimum? And what is the effect on the employment of minors? Does the number of minors working at those jobs increase?
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