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Originally Posted by Danzig
i'd love to see a citation on that 99% chance.
or you can ignore the facts and stick with your preconceived notions of who works in fast food.
Minimum-wage workers are older and, as discussed later, have greater family responsibilities than commonly portrayed. The facts do not support the perception of minimum-wage workers as primarily teenagers working for spending money (though even if true, it would not justify paying teens subpoverty wages).
the corresponding chart showed that 11.7% of workers who would be affected by a min. wage increase are under age 20. that means 88.3% aren't teens.
Data on educational attainment of those who would be affected by a minimum-wage increase further dispel the misperception of minimum-wage workers as high school students. In fact, nationally just 21.3 percent of those who would be affected have less than a high school degree, while fully 43.8 percent have some college education, an associate degree, or a bachelor’s degree or higher.
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I'd like to see the citation that shows 43.8% of the store workers at MacDonalds have not only graduated HS, but managed to earn a B.S. or at least attended undergraduate schooling.
Please feel free to revisit my previous posts. I compared minimum wage jobs of 30 years ago to the current climate. Of course there are more adults working these jobs but that directly correlates to the number of adults that chose to forgo their education. Only 3/4ths of kids in high school graduate. The number of those that go on to higher education, compared to other developed nations, is staggeringly low.
That is not McDonald's nor Walmart's nor anyone else who employs minimum wage worker's fault. They should not be required to increase the prices of their goods and services to inflate the compensation of these folks that made these choices.
When I go to McDonalds, I see a couple of shift managers (who most likely graduated HS and possibly attended Community College), a bunch of kids, and an equal amount of 20 somethings that don't look like they even know what day it is, but have managed to earn enough cash to tattoo every inch of their bodies. Hey, your world, who am i to judge?
Sorry, but that is the impression that is left.
Walmart is not much different. Though more uneducated middle aged people than teenagers appear to work there. I see people who were probably day laborers during the construction boom stocking shelves, low level office workers during the mortgage boom manning the cash registers, etc. - now working these jobs. They, by and large, have no formal education and obviously did not excel when they did have a menial office job nor impress a construction foreman to be brought back when work began to slowly trickle back in. Which is fine. this is their fit, and they are most likely excelling at it. But that is what it is - it is not a 10.00 an hour job. and employers needn't be held hostage with a proverbial gun to their head to give that to them.
When the market dictates that wages increase, then you will see it. When Walmart can't run a store because they are losing employees to a competitor due to wages, they will increase wages. How it works.
Unfortunately you have a generation of unskilled labor at the ready, so i doubt it happens anytime soon.