Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Unemployment & the minimum wage Message-ID: <392@pucc-i> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 15:13:50 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-i.392 Posted: Thu Aug 9 15:13:50 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 00:25:43 EDT References: <1665@inmet.UUCP> <34@ssc-vax.UUCP> <255@fisher.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 13 > So you can't own a car. So you can't go to the doctor. So if you get > sick you starve. Other than that, $2.50/hr does sound like good money, > doesn't it? Compared to $0.00 an hour, $2.50 sounds pretty good. It also looks better in terms of job experience. When a job opens up at $3.50 an hour, who has the better shot at it? The guy who has been getting $2.50, or the guy who has been getting $0.00? If no applicants can be found who have work experience, the $3.50 job may never be filled. -- Dave Seaman My hovercraft is no longer full of ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags eels (thanks to my confused cat).