{"id":12191,"date":"2010-07-22T06:13:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T11:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12191"},"modified":"2014-02-20T16:59:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T22:59:37","slug":"remember-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12191","title":{"rendered":"Remember!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teenagers’ unemployement rates are\u00a0completely out of control<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Employers are choosing older workers, saying it\u2019s cheaper to hire a more experienced worker, than, say, two teenagers, who will need more training, experts say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s too expensive for us to hire teens that don\u2019t have experience,\u201d said Karin Devencenzi, the general manager at Southpark Seafood Grill & Wine Bar in Portland, Ore. “By the time you get them on board, with a lack of experience, it doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Margaret Anderson-Kelliher’s response: \u00a0If the minimum wage is killing jobs, let’s kill them some more<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Devencenzi also blames the minimum wage. At $8.40 an hour, Oregon has one of the highest minimum wages in the country. The national minimum rose from $6.55 to $7.35 in July 2009. (Several other states have a rate higher than the federal mandate.)<\/p>\n

In a tough economy, keeping wages down is more important than ever, says Saltsman. \u201cPassing costs to consumers isn\u2019t an option because people\u2019s wallets are pinched in a recession,\u201d he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem is, the DFL hears “pinched wallets” and says “let’s start a program to help with wallet-pinching, and pay for it with a tax on small businesspeople!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teenagers’ unemployement rates are\u00a0completely out of control: Employers are choosing older workers, saying it\u2019s cheaper to hire a more experienced worker, than, say, two teenagers, who will need more training, experts say. \u201cIt\u2019s too expensive for us to hire teens that don\u2019t have experience,\u201d said Karin Devencenzi, the general manager at Southpark Seafood Grill & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-12191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","tag-minimum-wage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12203,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions\/12203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}