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Which allows an American Samoan worker to have a higher standard of living: being employed at $3.26 per hour or unemployed at a wage scheduled to annually increase by 50 cents until it reaches federally mandated wages at $7.25? You say, "Williams, that's a stupid question. Who would support people being unemployed at $7.25 an hour over being employed at $3.26 an hour?" That's precisely the outcome of Congress' 2007 increases in the minimum wage. Chicken of the Sea International moved its operation from Samoa to a highly automated cannery plant in Lyon, Georgia. That resulted in roughly 2,000 jobs...
Minimum Wage Cruelty
Williams, that’s a stupid quote! Who would set up a straw man about halving the minimum wage when there is ZERO evidence the minimum wage creates unemployment?
http://www.bigissueground.com/politics/blair-minimumwage.sh tml
It does not cut jobs. It may hamper new jobs from being created as quickly, but here’s the trick, you insignificant idiot:
Those jobs that are lacking right now are not lacking because the minimum wage is higher, they are lacking because YOUR BANKSTAH FRIENDS ARE...