{"id":41694,"date":"2014-02-10T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41694"},"modified":"2014-02-20T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T22:55:21","slug":"oh-were-in-the-very-best-of-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41694","title":{"rendered":"Oh, We&#8217;re In The Very <i>Best<\/i> Of Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2012, St. Paul\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stpaul.gov\/DocumentCenter\/View\/69521\" target=\"_blank\">teen unemployment was 32%<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 One-third of our young people could not find work, even at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">state minimum wage of $5.25 per hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, St. Paul Mayor demanded the minimum wage be\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/article\/stories\/s3314176.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">nearly doubled, to $9.50<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No employer could afford to hire you because you weren&#8217;t worth $5.25 per hour, but surely he&#8217;ll jump at the chance to hire you at $9.50, maybe several of you.\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They can be interns for the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Unpaid, naturally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In 2012, St. Paul\u00a0teen unemployment was 32%.\u00a0\u00a0 One-third of our young people could not find work, even at the\u00a0state minimum wage of $5.25 per hour. On Friday, St. Paul Mayor demanded the minimum wage be\u00a0nearly doubled, to $9.50. No employer could afford to hire you because you weren&#8217;t worth [&hellip;]<\/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-41694","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\/41694","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=41694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41966,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41694\/revisions\/41966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}