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Originally Posted by tony286
63 percent of min wage workers are over 20 yrs old. It costs you when adults are the working poor. Also your $5 hr was worth alot more than min wage is worth today.
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Then that would be people who are unskilled labor and/or older folks who are supplementing their social security income.
I know a lot of people who work at Walmart. Never met even one of them who was on welfare at the same time. A lot of them are women who work the registers and dept's and the money they make is the second income along with their husband's income. They depend on that second income (and the employees discounts they get at Walmart) to make ends meet.
And MILLIONS of families depend on Walmart's low prices to be able to buy things for their homes and also groceries now that Walmart has food as well.
Tony, you are talking about driving prices up so far that poor people will not be able to afford it anymore.