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[–] brother_tempus 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Relevant statement in the aticle :

Employment among undereducated American men in their prime is free-falling, statistics show, creating an underclass of able-bodied males who don’t have the income stability or social capital to become good husbands and fathers.

This is the outcome of the minimum wage

The goal of the minimum wage is to outlaw low paying jobs for the unskilled and inexperienced

The law, simply, says: it is illegal, and therefore criminal, for anyone to hire anyone else below the level of X dollars an hour. This means, plainly and simply, that a large number of free and voluntary wage contracts are now outlawed and hence that there will be a large amount of unemployment.

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[–] teatime ago 

Unless they are contractors! Contractors can work for nothing or close to it. Maybe we should be teaching kids how to go into business for themselves so they can be self-employed slaves and get these employment numbers up.

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[–] brother_tempus 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Contractors can work for nothing or close to it.

Only if they chose to but this line of dialogue is irrelevant to the statement that it is the implementation and gradual increase of the unconsituional mnimum wage that has created this envirnment outlined in this article