Letter: The $3 difference
I have a question. What is the difference between an unskilled, low-value, less-educated worker living in New Hampshire in 1968 compared to an unskilled, low-value, less-educated worker living here today? Try $3 an hour!
In 1968 the minimum wage worker was earning the equivalent of $10.56 per hour compared to the miserly minimum wage set today at $7.25 per hour. Translation: Today’s minimum-wage worker needs government support to pay basic bills (like food, shelter, heat, etc.). It sure sounds like we have created a scenario that allows low-wage employers to suck off the government teat expecting John Q. Taxpayer to keep “their employees” afloat.
Don’t you just hate freeloaders?