Minimum Wage Equals No Jobs

Mostly for teenagers looking for "summer jobs," but for everybody, too. We can't keep paying wages that are more than some people are worth. The employers just stop offering low-wage jobs, period. They just require more of the ones they have. "One of the prime reasons for this drastic employment drought is the mandated wage hikes that policymakers have forced down the throats of local businesses. Economic research has shown time and again that increasing the minimum wage destroys jobs for low-skilled workers while doing little to address poverty. According to economist David Neumark of the University of California at Irvine, for every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage, employment for high school dropouts and young black adults and teenagers falls by 8.5 percent. In the past 11 months alone, the United States’ minimum wage has increased by more than twice that amount." This is indisputable. Yet the liberals keep insisting on increasing the minimum wage, which only increases wage demands, period. And higher wages for those not worth it simply cause the employer to cut those jobs. (The Examiner)