Living wage snerk. It’s not meant to be a living wage, it’s meant to be a STARTING wage. If you are such an idiot that you don’t move up the ladder and stay at minimum wage, then perhaps you DESERVE minimum wage. This is simply greedy people trying to be greedier.
I worked in a fast food restaurant during college and I only had to work there 8 weeks before they offered me a raise. Lets focus our energy on something that REALLY matters, eh?
“How many people intend to stay in a minimum wage job for the long term? Any hands? I didn’t think so.”They’ll quit that minimum wage job just as soon as they can afford to move to Asia to get one of the jobs our so called job creators are busy creating.
Since Reagan CEOs has seen their annual income go from around 25 times their average worker’s to around 300 times. Those in the bottom quintile have seen annual income shrink. At one time in America there was a belief that a rising tide should lift all boats. Not any more, I guess. When you look at American PISA scores it is not surprising that there are a lot of burger flippers making minimum wage.
So the reason low pay is because the CEOs make so much? You could cut the CEO’s pay by 99% and spread it to the workers and everyone would get a 1 cent an hour raise. Obama is killing jobs with his regulations. That is the problem. If we had 4% unemployed, fast food employees would be making twice what they are because of supply and demand. Get a clue!
According to the federal BLS, 2.8% of the workforce is at the federal mininum wage, or below (note that this also includes professions where tip income allows a lower hourly rate, but does not include the average of the tip income). Of this, approximate 50% are ages 16-24, so that means that approximately 50% are 25 or above. This means that 1.4% of those over 25 make minimum wage. Of these, only 21.6% work full time. This means that .3% of the workforce works full-time at minimum wage.
No one intends to flip burgers for the rest of their lives but when we import networking technicians, engineers, and other high wage professions from India at a bargain, the only jobs available are those that nobody wants.
And don’t forget those free trade agreements that lets factories close here and open up shop in China.
The problem with raising the minimum wage is that employers would simply stop hiring full-time employees and offer only parttime jobs that are not subject to the m.w.
The minimum wage job I’m presently at was only supposed to be my “college” job, in that it was money to pay tuition and something to stick on my resume to show consistent work history.[]Instead, we had the recession. []My major would have gotten me $50K / year before the recession, but jobs in the field dried up in rather short order.[]Now I’m simply trying to save up the money to go to an area where there are still jobs in my field, at which point I’ll hopefully get back to that $50K / year.
“Yet that is not what history shows us.That is a fear tactic towards the working class.”
No, it’s not; it’s the working class complaint against employers.
We’ve had that since employers’ were absolved of the necessity of offering health coverage to employees who work less than forty hour weeks.
I don’t recall which administration gave us that great loophole, but it certainly predates this one. I’m hearing that the new health care regulations will reduce hours for those workers to 29.5 hours, because the effort to cover more people will not be honored by employers.
Sure looks like greed to me. And also a strong dose of immaturity. ‘You can’t make me, nyah nyah nyah!’
The arrogance and blindness of the right wing never fails to amaze me; “I’ve got mine, so everything is fine.”No one chooses to work for minimum wage, but with the ever widening gap between rich and poor, there will be a few more making 7 figures and a heck of a lot trying to scrape by on minimum wage. I know you conservatives think that’s OK, but wait until it catches up with you, your jobs disappear and you’re desperate for a job; then you’ll be crying for a raise in the Federal Minimum Wage.
The ignorance and complete lack of market awareness of the left is always amusing. They think that they mandate an increase in wages and prices will remain low. Why supply and demands see so inconceivable to liberals is hard to understand.Oh, and by the way, every reputable news outlet recanted that severely lacking, totally absurd evaluation of the impact of McDonald’s increasing the cost of a Big Mac, but some people don’t want to be bothered by facts.
lisak157 Premium Member over 10 years ago
Living wage snerk. It’s not meant to be a living wage, it’s meant to be a STARTING wage. If you are such an idiot that you don’t move up the ladder and stay at minimum wage, then perhaps you DESERVE minimum wage. This is simply greedy people trying to be greedier.
I worked in a fast food restaurant during college and I only had to work there 8 weeks before they offered me a raise. Lets focus our energy on something that REALLY matters, eh?
Christopher Shea over 10 years ago
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
rockngolfer over 10 years ago
Average age of fast food workers is 28. They are there mostly because those are the only jobs.
Jason Allen over 10 years ago
“How many people intend to stay in a minimum wage job for the long term? Any hands? I didn’t think so.”They’ll quit that minimum wage job just as soon as they can afford to move to Asia to get one of the jobs our so called job creators are busy creating.
Tuner38 over 10 years ago
Congress is way overpaid.
bgarner over 10 years ago
Since Reagan CEOs has seen their annual income go from around 25 times their average worker’s to around 300 times. Those in the bottom quintile have seen annual income shrink. At one time in America there was a belief that a rising tide should lift all boats. Not any more, I guess. When you look at American PISA scores it is not surprising that there are a lot of burger flippers making minimum wage.
gbrucewilson over 10 years ago
So the reason low pay is because the CEOs make so much? You could cut the CEO’s pay by 99% and spread it to the workers and everyone would get a 1 cent an hour raise. Obama is killing jobs with his regulations. That is the problem. If we had 4% unemployed, fast food employees would be making twice what they are because of supply and demand. Get a clue!
curtisls87 over 10 years ago
According to the federal BLS, 2.8% of the workforce is at the federal mininum wage, or below (note that this also includes professions where tip income allows a lower hourly rate, but does not include the average of the tip income). Of this, approximate 50% are ages 16-24, so that means that approximately 50% are 25 or above. This means that 1.4% of those over 25 make minimum wage. Of these, only 21.6% work full time. This means that .3% of the workforce works full-time at minimum wage.
echoraven over 10 years ago
In the Obama economy, there aren’t much jobs outside minimum wage (or close to).
rockngolfer over 10 years ago
I have noticed that you don’t watch Jon Oliver or Stephen Colbert who play Fox clips quite often.
rockngolfer over 10 years ago
The info that the average age of fast food workers is 28 came originally from The Atlantic and was picked up by msnbc and Huffpost.
d_legendary1 over 10 years ago
No one intends to flip burgers for the rest of their lives but when we import networking technicians, engineers, and other high wage professions from India at a bargain, the only jobs available are those that nobody wants.
And don’t forget those free trade agreements that lets factories close here and open up shop in China.
turgilsa over 10 years ago
The problem with raising the minimum wage is that employers would simply stop hiring full-time employees and offer only parttime jobs that are not subject to the m.w.
Ironhold over 10 years ago
The minimum wage job I’m presently at was only supposed to be my “college” job, in that it was money to pay tuition and something to stick on my resume to show consistent work history.[]Instead, we had the recession. []My major would have gotten me $50K / year before the recession, but jobs in the field dried up in rather short order.[]Now I’m simply trying to save up the money to go to an area where there are still jobs in my field, at which point I’ll hopefully get back to that $50K / year.
Hawthorne over 10 years ago
“Yet that is not what history shows us.That is a fear tactic towards the working class.”
No, it’s not; it’s the working class complaint against employers.
We’ve had that since employers’ were absolved of the necessity of offering health coverage to employees who work less than forty hour weeks.
I don’t recall which administration gave us that great loophole, but it certainly predates this one. I’m hearing that the new health care regulations will reduce hours for those workers to 29.5 hours, because the effort to cover more people will not be honored by employers.
Sure looks like greed to me. And also a strong dose of immaturity. ‘You can’t make me, nyah nyah nyah!’
luvdomus over 10 years ago
If you want to raise a family, don’t work at McDonalds. Fast food chains offer low prices and jobs for youngsters entering the job market.
McSpook over 10 years ago
" but you only watch Fox News, else you would not know what is said on Fox News.".There’s a thin and ridiculous bit of logic.Typical Tigger.
McSpook over 10 years ago
The arrogance and blindness of the right wing never fails to amaze me; “I’ve got mine, so everything is fine.”No one chooses to work for minimum wage, but with the ever widening gap between rich and poor, there will be a few more making 7 figures and a heck of a lot trying to scrape by on minimum wage. I know you conservatives think that’s OK, but wait until it catches up with you, your jobs disappear and you’re desperate for a job; then you’ll be crying for a raise in the Federal Minimum Wage.
Robert Lowe over 10 years ago
The ignorance and complete lack of market awareness of the left is always amusing. They think that they mandate an increase in wages and prices will remain low. Why supply and demands see so inconceivable to liberals is hard to understand.Oh, and by the way, every reputable news outlet recanted that severely lacking, totally absurd evaluation of the impact of McDonald’s increasing the cost of a Big Mac, but some people don’t want to be bothered by facts.