>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. My question is: if one can barely afford to support oneself, why is one making the decision to have children that one cannot afford?
Because we are one species removed from monkeys?
I started at minimum wage as well. Back then it was $2.40 an hour. It seemed like all the money in the world. My frame of reference was mowing lawns and delivering newspapers.
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