Around here they are paying $9 an hour. It's an entry level job or a retired person returning to work to supplement their social security -- that is sad in itself -- if they are there to have something useful to do all kudos to them.

How many 35 year old workers with an AA or BA degree and work experience do you find working as a line cook at a crap (I mean fast) food joint 40hrs a week?

Maybe with the current lack of jobs they trained for more that I think but these examples few and are the exception to the rule, or their fast food employment is meant to be temporary.

If you want to force these type of employers to provide decent healthcare benefits to their workers I'm all for that. Their workers have the same basic rights as people as we all do.