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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Unemployment & the minimum wage
Message-ID: <263@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Aug-84 10:19:32 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 11 10:19:32 1984
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>>  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.

Job experience? I am confused. What highly skilled jobs are we 
talking about at this level which require experience, anyway?

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