What would happen if colleges overtly recruited kids who worked paid jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:Get OP that cheap burger.

actually, fast food and dish washing jobs is one of the central arguments to keeping min wage low in some states.

we have "lower pay for same work" already .. all over. It's just called being a woman.

AND we have made exceptions before based on age. You can do seasonal agricultural work when you're 14 without working papers. I grew up in Illinois, we all did that as soon as we turned 14.

I'd like to see it. Bonus points if you wait tables. So many skills flow from that

Of course the law approves of underpaying teens for seasonal work, no papers required. That way they can have the immigrant children out in the fields for pennies. All that so Americans can buy and eat too much food and fast food can have a dollar menu.

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Anonymous wrote:Supposedly, colleges do value this. For the obvious reasons of learning responsibility and general work ethic.

I have not seen it help much myself.

I have't seen this at all. And we know kids who worked year round and had great grades but lackluster ECs (bcs: job) and they were not rewarded.

And the irony is that colleges bend over backwards to pick disadvantaged kids but when they’re comparing one with a job, they don’t seem to give it any weight. The kids who did the unpaid internships still get the boost - the ones that actually cost mom and dad money and therefore require privilege.