Quote Originally Posted by Kagemusha
Another question?In US have you guys frozen the minimum wage´s? Dont you have index raises in those to follow inflation?
Did anyone see the episode of 30 days where he and his girlfriend were to get jobs that paid minimum wage and live on it for 30 day? Neither could even find jobs that paid that low. There are not that many minimum wage jobs out there especially if you work there for some time, raises are often given after 6 months and benefits and vacation are also offered around that time. If you work at a restaurant and do a decent job you can even expect to get a small promotion in 6 months. I know that some restaurants even offer management trainee programs. I have a friend that works at a temp place and they hardly ever have jobs available that only pay minimum wage, they usually pay several dollars more for even the lame entry level stuff. If they raise the minimum wage I am not sure it would even affect many companies as it doesn’t seem they pay many people it anyway. A company that only pays minimum wage is either real cheep or offer a really crappy job, either way I would seek other employment.

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Hey Soulforged, the difference between unemployment and welfare is that warfare is paid by the state to people that are in “need” and unemployment is paid by the former after say a layoff or downsizing (if your fired you are not eligible for unemployment) employer and is only offered for a limited time based on the amount of time you worked for that employer. I was downsized once (many years ago) and was allowed up to 52 weeks of unemployment (I only used about a month of it). I have never been on welfare and cannot comment much further on that matter other that the fact that it has become more of a system that offers assistance rather than the way the system was back in the 70’s and 80’s where it really created dependency.