Raising the Minimum Wage: The Wrong Turn
Most everyone has had one. Almost everyone who has had one hated it. And almost everyone has moved on from it. What I am referring to is minimum wage jobs. Most of us have fond memories of summertime with friends and becoming an adult and charting our way in life. To do that one of the things we needed was a job. Not a career, or profession, but a simple job to be able to have some spending money, maybe a car and some clothes. It is all a pretty necessary and standard part of becoming an adult in America. So why did some people not move forward? That is a different social problem; this will be focusing on how to best invest energy in resolving it. There are many people out there who believe we should …show more content…
And in a small-order transaction, the tendering time is a very high percentage of the transaction--about 50%, whereas in a large order, it is a fraction of that. Since the tendering is the least efficient part of the transaction, we automate that whole process.
That is a biased opinion as someone who profits from these systems, but to support Karp's opinion is Don Emrah, manager of store operation services for Cincinnati-based Kroger Company (Self Scanning).
One of these systems can cost you as much as a whole scan system in a store--nine or 10 or 12 check lanes across the front. But it works; it does its job. I'm getting real good marks from my customers in those stores with these units in. And there is a good return on investment--a payback probably within 2-1/2 to three years.
Once again, how much positive impact will raising the minimum wage have in 10 years when unskilled labor will have nowhere to …show more content…
One in three employees currently earning the minimum wage are parents (Abolish 26:00-27:15), the minimum wage rate is the only thing that is keeping them afloat (Abolish 27:20-28:05). The odds are that this will keep perpetuating a cycle of poverty in America and those children are much more likely to keep repeating the cycle that they see. Because of this, we must change the imagery they experience in their lives. Put them in a situation where they are more likely to see their parents pursuing training and education than just asking to make a small amount more per hour or week. That image will remain with them and make them stronger for it. The unemployment rate for 16-24 yr olds is 16% nationwide (Abolish 08:04-08:36). For African Americans in that age group, it is 29% (Abolish 08:40-09:15). Some economists believe if you raise the minimum wage those numbers will improve. They think that raising the wage rate will create more employment opportunities for youth and feed those incomes back into the economy through spending and taxes, therefore, creating more jobs. What those numbers tell me is that 16% of 16-24 yr olds nationwide and 29% of African-Americans in that age group don't currently have any skills worth the current minimum wage in their location (Abolish 10:07-10:40). If we raise the wage rate, there will undoubtedly be some
Most everyone has had one. Almost everyone who has had one hated it. And almost everyone has moved on from it. What I am referring to is minimum wage jobs. Most of us have fond memories of summertime with friends and becoming an adult and charting our way in life. To do that one of the things we needed was a job. Not a career, or profession, but a simple job to be able to have some spending money, maybe a car and some clothes. It is all a pretty necessary and standard part of becoming an adult in America. So why did some people not move forward? That is a different social problem; this will be focusing on how to best invest energy in resolving it. There are many people out there who believe we should …show more content…
And in a small-order transaction, the tendering time is a very high percentage of the transaction--about 50%, whereas in a large order, it is a fraction of that. Since the tendering is the least efficient part of the transaction, we automate that whole process.
That is a biased opinion as someone who profits from these systems, but to support Karp's opinion is Don Emrah, manager of store operation services for Cincinnati-based Kroger Company (Self Scanning).
One of these systems can cost you as much as a whole scan system in a store--nine or 10 or 12 check lanes across the front. But it works; it does its job. I'm getting real good marks from my customers in those stores with these units in. And there is a good return on investment--a payback probably within 2-1/2 to three years.
Once again, how much positive impact will raising the minimum wage have in 10 years when unskilled labor will have nowhere to …show more content…
One in three employees currently earning the minimum wage are parents (Abolish 26:00-27:15), the minimum wage rate is the only thing that is keeping them afloat (Abolish 27:20-28:05). The odds are that this will keep perpetuating a cycle of poverty in America and those children are much more likely to keep repeating the cycle that they see. Because of this, we must change the imagery they experience in their lives. Put them in a situation where they are more likely to see their parents pursuing training and education than just asking to make a small amount more per hour or week. That image will remain with them and make them stronger for it. The unemployment rate for 16-24 yr olds is 16% nationwide (Abolish 08:04-08:36). For African Americans in that age group, it is 29% (Abolish 08:40-09:15). Some economists believe if you raise the minimum wage those numbers will improve. They think that raising the wage rate will create more employment opportunities for youth and feed those incomes back into the economy through spending and taxes, therefore, creating more jobs. What those numbers tell me is that 16% of 16-24 yr olds nationwide and 29% of African-Americans in that age group don't currently have any skills worth the current minimum wage in their location (Abolish 10:07-10:40). If we raise the wage rate, there will undoubtedly be some