As a result, taxpayers are contributing $7 billion per year to pick up the cost of supporting these fast-food workers.
Due to the large cost of supporting these fast-food workers, even if the minimum wage was raised, tax payers would most likely still be supporting public programs like food stamps and Medicaid; the raise would not get rid of these programs.
Therefore, raising the minimum wage would pump billions of dollars of consumer spending into the American economy.
It is possible that people would save their money that they made instead of spending it.
3.8 million American workers -- most of whom were out of their teens
How many of the teenagers need a raise to survive or do most of them have financial help from their parents?
A higher minimum wage might also decrease turnover and thus keep training costs down, supporters say.
Are these workers, which happen to be mostly teenagers, likely to keep the job for a long time or do many of them come and go? If people continue to change jobs often, the training costs will still be there, even if the wage is higher.
We are sadly mistaken if we feel that the election of Albert Boutwell as mayor will bring the millennium to Birmingham
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But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five year old son who is asking: "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"; when you take a cross county drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored"; when your first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are) and your last name becomes "John," and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness"--then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.
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"What kind of people worship here? Who is their God? Where were their voices when the lips of Governor Barnett dripped with words of interposition and nullification? Where were they when Governor Wallace gave a clarion call for defiance and hatred? Where were their voices of support when bruised and weary Negro men and women decided to rise from the dark dungeons of complacency to the bright hills of creative protest?"
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