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cawacko said:
tc, when you look into unemployment numbers look at the youth unemployment rate. They have the highest number and are the one's hit hardest by increases in wages. (I will say I'm not completely clear how they come up their numbers. If you are in school full time and don't have a part-time job are you considered unemployed?) I agree with you that more money for kids being able to save for their future is a good thing. Where I disagree with you is that it should be forced on employers by the government. When wages are forced higher more kids are going to be unemployed.
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The bold is not necessarily true:

http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02.pdf
 
So, like, how do you know the enrollment status of young adults who earn the minimum wage? Do you have a link to a source for that?
 
evince said:
why so you can ignore it some more
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What is the number?

I can't take you seriously without a number. The numbers you give aren't even above poverty. So how compassionate is that? You want to give people enough to keep them in poverty?

If a $12 minimum wage is good, when why isn't $24 better? $36?

Surely your PhD in Krugmanomics can allow you to explain it in riveting detail
 
cawacko said:
tc, when you look into unemployment numbers look at the youth unemployment rate. They have the highest number and are the one's hit hardest by increases in wages. (I will say I'm not completely clear how they come up their numbers. If you are in school full time and don't have a part-time job are you considered unemployed?) I agree with you that more money for kids being able to save for their future is a good thing. Where I disagree with you is that it should be forced on employers by the government. When wages are forced higher more kids are going to be unemployed.
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I don't think the unemployment among youth is due to minimum wage. It's due to a whole lot of other factors, including older adults who can't find jobs in their normal fields going for the minimum wage jobs.

If teens earn more, a lot of them will spend more - and they will spend it on pizza, movies, clothes - places which employ young workers at minimum wage. See the upswing circle that could happen here?

Yes, some will save for college and cars and some will help their parents out. But we need more spending on goods to help our economy; teenagers will spend if minimum wage is increased.
 
tekkychick said:
I don't think the unemployment among youth is due to minimum wage. It's due to a whole lot of other factors, including older adults who can't find jobs in their normal fields going for the minimum wage jobs.

If teens earn more, a lot of them will spend more - and they will spend it on pizza, movies, clothes - places which employ young workers at minimum wage. See the upswing circle that could happen here?
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Where does that extra money come from?
 
Dungheap said:
So, like, how do you know the enrollment status of young adults who earn the minimum wage? Do you have a link to a source for that?
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I am not going to get into a game of semantics when you know what I was referring to. If it helps ease the pain for you, then we can say college aged kids... do you feel better now?
 
Superfreak said:
I am not going to get into a game of semantics when you know what I was referring to. If it helps ease the pain for you, then we can say college aged kids... do you feel better now?
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I don't know what you were referring to. I mean, it's one thing for a college student with a part-time job earning the minimum wage. I don't care about that so much. It's quite another for a young adult that's not a student who is earning the minimum wage and trying to live off of it. You want to pretend that people earnign the minimum wage aren't trying to live off of it but are mostly students and teenagers with other sources of support and you prented that all young aduls fit into this camp when really you have no idea whether this is true or not. That's not "semantics."

I'll feel better if you just say "young adults."
 
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