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6. The problem is only partly the minimum wage.
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 03:38 PM
Aug 2013

The major part of the problem is a lack of Living-Wage-Jobs. If we jobs we have paid a Living-Wage, family bread winners (adults) would not be working several jobs to try to feed their families. Teenager and people looking for a bit of supplemental income would be doing those minimum wage jobs. As it used to be.

The low minimum wage and the lack of Living-Wage-Jobs are part of the same problem and need to be addressed together. Quite often they have the same root - greed, on the part of those running the companies

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