15/hr will have unintended consequences.
Lets start with the jobs that most High School Kids try to get. That means that there will have to be a Training wage or something.
Jobs that include tips ... in many southern states the tips are imputed income which are counted as part of the minimum wage for tipped employees. [example a tipped employee's gross sales/hr averages $100 * 8% is considered to be the tipping rate so $8/hr tips are included part of the /hr wage ]
It makes the cost of all goods go up and people who work above minimum tend to demand more because they feel they are more skilled that the minimum.
I tends to reduce the number of hrs employees work as well because they're too expensive. It sends jobs to where the wages are lower.
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qzjul:
Also giving money to municipalities based on population with no strings attached at the provincial/state level would help a lot.
How about the localities just get to keep the money made there by the population rather than send it to the "National Government to send back"
"The government the governs best governs least"
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qzjul:
Basically, there is less job *supply* than there is job *demand*; it doesn't matter *how hard* you work if supply is lower than demand, you still are going to have a tough time getting a job, and when you do it will pay less than in the past.
If you want more job supply then find a need and fill it ... aka start your own business. That's what used to happen more often. The less regulations that exist to start up business the better off the job supply is. Minimum wage is just one of the impediments.
