marshg246
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In Northern Virginia, the fast-food places are paying $17/hour plus benefits. Trying to find non-employee help without benefits - tough! Only an idiot would work for minimum wage here - $7.25/hourI'll have to relate my bona fides on this topic and add that I'm speaking from a family with working-age kids (2) working-age grandkids (3) and numerous working age nephews and nieces.
In MY extended family, we were taught, and we teach, that NO job is "beneath" you, and minimum wage is ample as long as you are under our roof and behaving reasonably well. Our kids and grandkids have obviously taken those two simple concepts to heart and are doing well and staying out of trouble. If you have graduated, and don't want to work (a minimum wage job, at least), you have to live somewhere else!
Meanwhile, in this "bedroom community" that serves a decidedly liberal city (Austin, Tx), the "problem" grows.
$15 an hour jobs are unfilled, because the government handouts keep getting increased and extended for YEARS past the point of original unemployment. It is NOT sustainable.
...and don't forget, "digital currency" is NOT used to pay workers, generally...
(there, back on topic)