>Well then we have a fundamental disagreement. It's not possible for everyone to have a job with a high level skill set or even go to college. Personally I don't think it's right to toss these people under the bus, they should be able to survive on their full-time job's income. Companies (and society) have a responsibility to ensure that their workers earn enough to live on. If a firm can’t pay its workers enough to live on, then it isn’t a viable business, because it is dependent on wage subsidies.
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>Minimum wage jobs were never meant to provide a wage that one could support a family of 4 on. They were meant as an entry point to the work force for teenagers with no job experience.

What's your basis for saying that? If we go back before minimum wage existed, we find that employers paid people the minimum they could get away and pretty much considered many workers as expendable. It was only when workers grouped together and formed unions that employers stopped being able to do that.

Minimum wage exists because unions fought for it, not to give teenagers jobs, but to ensure that workers were paid enough to live.

Tamar