(04-03-2018, 11:45 PM)hazard Wrote: The (adult) minimum wage is geared towards covering the costs of living for a family (roughly speaking).
The minimum wage for teenagers is geared towards letting them have some extra pocket money without providing enough of an incentive to quit their secondary education to make a living working full time. It also scales upwards as the teenagers grow older.
This is rough, I need to get to work so more on this later if you want.
However, teenagers are (supposedly) still in school, so they're only working part-time. The same wage per hour comes out to less for teenagers because they're working fewer hours.
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Rob Kelk
Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
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