Oct 31, 2013

A minimum wage but maybe different people filling those minimum wage jobs?

I am not against the $15/hr wage.

But I hope that people will realize that the people who are now making $9.19 an hour (in Washington State) are not necessarily going to be making $15/hr. Some of those people will but as jobs turn over, who would you hire: 
    • Someone you were paying $9.19/hr? 
    • Or someone who just entered the labor market and willing (all you artists and writers) to work minimum when (and if) it is $15/hr?

There may be some surprises.

Yes there may be a new and substantially higher minimum wage but that different people may be filling those minimum wage jobs.

Oct 31, 2013 3:53:44 PM

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