$0/hour Is Less Than $5.15/hour
5 July 2006
Editor, The New Orleans Times-Picayune
Dear Editor:
Bob Herbert quotes Hillary Clinton's remark that "a full time job that pays the minimum wage just doesn't provide enough money to support a family today" ("Working for a pittance," July 5).
Sad but true. But it's more sad that being unemployed at the minimum wage provides even less money to support a family.
While there is debate among researchers on the question of whether or not higher a minimum wage puts low-skilled workers out of jobs, for Bob Herbert blithely to assume that raising the minimum wage has no downside for low-skilled workers is careless. For Sen. Clinton to do so is predictably scandalous.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, The New Orleans Times-Picayune
Dear Editor:
Bob Herbert quotes Hillary Clinton's remark that "a full time job that pays the minimum wage just doesn't provide enough money to support a family today" ("Working for a pittance," July 5).
Sad but true. But it's more sad that being unemployed at the minimum wage provides even less money to support a family.
While there is debate among researchers on the question of whether or not higher a minimum wage puts low-skilled workers out of jobs, for Bob Herbert blithely to assume that raising the minimum wage has no downside for low-skilled workers is careless. For Sen. Clinton to do so is predictably scandalous.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Friday April 13, 2007 at 2:16pm