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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
Well, it has a racial element when BECAUSE OF MINIMUM WAGE LAWS, young people with no skills can't be hired.
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Why then do we see so many black teenagers working fast food jobs if the minimum wage laws according to you stop unskilled minority teenages from being hired?
You are calling for the government to download welfare costs on private industry, which isn't fair. Minimum wage jobs were never meant to support a teenaged mother and child, they were for teenagers living at home and now old people supplementing their pensions.
I just googled and saw this
http://money.msn.com/now/post--fast-...-actually-want
Independent fast food chains seem to be paying employees more than the big chains - they can because they don't have the corporate overhead and other costs big chains do. BUT read what the owner of one of these independent places has to say - he runs his restaurant with 4 employees per shift, where McDonalds has 7 or 8. The smaller guy can run a more efficient restaurant than a big franchise chain can. If McDonalds could operate with the same efficiency there would be even less jobs for unskilled young people.