Study: Increasing minimum wage does not reduce jobs
Study: Increasing minimum wage does not reduce jobs
A new report shows minimum wage increases have had little effect on the number of jobs in Maryland and nationwide. While the rhetoric around increasing the minimum wage often comes with the caution it will reduce low-wage employment, a new review of decades of research showed most studies found no ...
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Who even gets paid minimum wage? My kids started at fast food for several dollars above minimum, to where I'm not even sure what the point is.
You're observing a snapshot period and confusing it for the whole.
Wages don't go down though, or at least I've never seen it. And rarely have I seen wages sit at minimum, indicating that the market wage isn't linked to the federal minimum wage. I understand that this may be different in other parts of the country. This is just my experience.
I got paid minimum wage when I was a supermarket cashier.
Makes sense. Like fast food, it's a job that doesn't require experience or any particular skill set.
No it does, I still remember all the produce codes and find myself tetrising my own grocery bags. A good cashier is faster, cleaner, and saves you money.
Basically every "tipped" job gets paid minimum wage (or below).
Yeah that's true, but with tips they actually do pretty well so it's tough to count that in discussions about minimum wage.