There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.
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Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.
The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.
The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years.
In the general economy, you get government involved in making market decisions - first of all, they're going to get it wrong. For a minimum wage, you will actually reduce the number of jobs available.
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.
When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
Relatively few people should start companies.
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