I'm a Hot Topic kid myself. Oddly enough I was never able to complete a purchase at A&F. Employees refused to come up to the checkout counter....

Why would anyone hire a teen when they can hire their parents who need the job to feed their teen?

Mr. Jackson, I disagree. It's not minimum wage that is hurting blacks. It's a lack of well paying manufacturing jobs. Most of them are shipped over to China and the like. All that's left is corporate jobs that are mainly HR, marketing/sales related and service related jobs. Food, retail and the like. Don't you think it's ironic that Apple who makes all their phone in China has to come up with a low cost version for China? Their own workers can't afford their product.

Of course the Muslims hate the U.S. As does pretty much everyone else does. It really has little to do with what we do or don't do. It's because we happen to be the king of the hill at this point in history. Others will either try to take what we have or take us down. On one side their is desire and greed and the other simple spite with a strong dose of envy. No matter what we do we will never win. I can tell you something about the middle east however. There are plenty of Muslims that love the U.S. That's not news worthy however.

If the minimum wage is too much how come minimum wage earners propelled companies like MacDonald's to multi-national corporate conglomerate status? Does the author want to bring us back to the robber baron days in which there were a few extremely wealthy people while the vast majority lived in abject poverty? Oh wait a second, if you look at the figures we getting there again. 9 an hour is a joke. It's pretty much slave labor considering what it costs to live in the USA.

A $100 a month isn't that much for date night.

Mr. Buchanan, dropping out of the work force means that you didn't find a job before your unemployment benefits ran out. When that happens you are taken off the list and there is no way you can register with the unemployment office as looking for a job. That does not mean you are not still looking for work. A smart man like you should know that the "dropping out of the workforce" is nothing but government propaganda to hide the real unemployment figures.

That's common in Massachusetts also but a little more subtly. It's starts in elementary school there.

I hate to have to point this out but everyone benefits from roads not just motorists.

We are flush with computer engineers however we are not flush with computer engineers who can move all over the country for 1-3 month contracts.