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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Internships are for “experience”.  Jobs are work, and should be paid based on the actual cost of living for a human being in this economy. There are already programs for low paying summer jobs for teens IIRC.[/quote]

Why would those teens take those jobs if they can just go make $15 somewhere else?[/quote]

They won’t be able to get those jobs, too ma y other qualified people would be competing with them.[/quote]

There’s going to be a rush of qualified people competing for minimum wage jobs? Really?[/quote]

Yes. Because the pay will make it worth their work. I pay my 16 year old babysitter 15 bucks an hour. There is no ethical reason a grocery clerk shouldn’t be paid equal or more. [/quote]

I guess we have different definitions of qualified. Grocery clerk is not skilled labor, that’s why it’s a minimum wage job. Raising the minimum to $15 does not magically give the clerk some skills, so a teenager can do it, so why would they take the lower paying ones again? Too many college grads fighting to be a grocery clerk?[/quote]

Too many reliable adults competing for a job that pays the bills.  Teenagers are educated employees. And again, they only currently take 2/5 of all minimum wage jobs to begin with.  [/quote]

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