>Not true: A review of 64 studies on minimum wage increases found no discernable effect on employment. Additionally, more than 600 economists, seven of them Nobel Prize winners in economics, have signed onto a letter in support of raising the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016.
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>The fact that Obama won a Nobel prize shows that you don't need to do anything special to win one.
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>And I would like to hear how you honestly expect someone (especially if they have a child or two) to live off of $7.50 an hour in the USA. You think you could do it?
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>I lived on a lot less than minimum wage at one time.
...yeah years ago when it was actually possible to do so.

> My question is: if one can barely afford to support oneself, why is one making the decision to have children that one cannot afford?
So poor people shouldn't be allowed to have kids? This is another argument that is annoyingly off base. The point is that you should be able to afford to raise a kid on minimum wage.