According to CNN.com, people who work minimum-wage jobs live on the edge. They are also no longer teenagers. In support of the latter proposition, CNN highlighted the career of a 21-year-old man who works at his local Wendy’s and decided to move out of his parents’ home.
While it would undoubtedly be a good thing if this young man were to have more career opportunities and an easier time paying his bills, the simple fact is that minimum-wage jobs - menial, unskilled labour - are not meant to provide a living wage- especially one that supports a family. Does anyone really think that a person should be able to make a career out of flipping hamburgers?
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A new study has found that the gender gap in math has disappeared for girls up through 11th grade (here). My only comment: Larry Summers’ fundamental error was to attempt to evaluate a constant quality (relative intellectual capacity of men and women, which, if it changes, does so over millenia) with variable data (such as the relative achievement of me and women in math and science).
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More “Impeach Bush”. Would it be too difficult to ask Congress to spend its time confirming judges, getting out of the ethanol mess, or solving the oil crisis, rather than swaggering about like a ten-year-old boy who just won a kickball game?
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“Does anyone really think that a person should be able to make a career out of flipping hamburgers?”
That sort of sums it all up.
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Thank you.
I think someone should be able to make a career out of flipping burgers if he or she can come up with an innovation that revolutionizes burger flipping or if he or she is a chef in an upscale restaurant that happens to serve gourmet burgers. I don’t think artificially raising the minimum wage will have much impact other than the corresponding raise in prices, some of which might even, gasp, be paid by minimum wage earners.
Can Congress impeach themselves?
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