How the Teenage Minimum Wage Worker Gets Screwed

     Let's take two people, doing the same identical job, at a fast-food place.  One is 40 years old with two kids, and the other is 19.  They both make minimum wage, or $7.25/hr.  They both live on their own and have the same usual bills as everybody else, lights, water, rent, etc..  Except the 40 year old has a family to provide for.

     The 19 year old is easy!  He makes $7.25/hr and that's it.  The 40 year old makes the same wage but gets $400/month in food stamps, $750/month in free state health-care insurance, a $7000/yr tax refund (we'll say the refund is 5k since the 40 year old paid 2k in federal taxes), WIC if he has a newborn baby, and any other welfare.  So when you average this back out.  The 40-year-old is making $15/hr while the teenager is making $7.25 for doing the same job!  Out of this $7.25 the teenager that lives on his own has to pay for his own food, health insurance, income taxes, etc..  And how is this fair?  The only answer is because the 19-year-old is young and stupid, and can't do any better workwise.

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