Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.
Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.
In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the world won't create better jobs with more pay.
Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturing jobs, putting more than 3 million U.S. workers out of work.
Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
The gap between rich and poor under President Obama is getting bigger because fewer well-paying jobs are available. Corporations are being taxed to the hilt and are loathe to add more workers. Thus, salaries fall because there are more than enough applicants to fill any job vacancy.
Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.