Tuesday, August 25, 2015

The $15 Minimum Wage Rage

Seattle Washington and Washington DC are preparing to raise their minimum wage to $15 per hour, this seems like a lot of money but it only amounts to $31,200 per year for full time employees.  In fact most employees in $15 per hour jobs are part time.  Nevertheless $15 per hour is an attractive wage for menial type jobs requiring little or no skills, so my hope is that every illegal, I mean undocumented, person in the United States makes a bee line for the Washingtons and starts lineing up for those jobs, of course there won't be that many jobs available because most businesses employing such people will be automating the functions they would perform.  The hourly wage would be better spent by paying low skill potential workers to go to school or back to school to learn skills that would make them employable.


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