Raise The Minimum Wage

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This seems to be a world wide problem.

China Factories Turn to Undocumented Labor as Local Wages Jump By Bloomberg News - Aug 9, 2013 11:00 AM CT China?s embrace of higher wages to help bolster consumer spending has sparked a jump in factories along the east-coast export corridor bringing in undocumented and lower-paid workers from Myanmar and Vietnam.

Border police found 59 illegal immigrants from Vietnam in a bus heading for the Pearl River Delta on July 29, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Aug. 6. ?Thousands? of workers from Vietnam and Myanmar were discovered working illegally in Shenzhen between 2010 and 2012, the state-run China News Service reported, citing a local prosecutor.

Minimum wage workers typically spend most of their money; so it ends up repeatedly cycling through the economy, instead of someplace in the Caymans.

Increasing the minimum wage is probably one of the very best options available for improving the domestic economy.

You are saying employers currently hire and pay people they can do without because they come at such a cheap rate ????

If they could do without them, the workers wouldn't be there in the first place. The only situation where your idea works is if the choice between the cost of a person vs the cost of a machine to replace them is right at the tipping point of equal.

Many employers will realize they can lay off people if business gets thin but they can not lay off the machine; once bought, they still have to pay for it.

Plimpton is mentally ill.