Newsweek has this page in every issue with quotes and cartoons called 'Perspectives'. One quote this week was:
"'At $5.15 an hour, I get zero applicants - or maybe a guy with one leg who wouldn't pass a drug test.'
Idaho restaurant owner Rob Elder, on difficulties of finding good workers with his state's low minimum wage, compared with nearby Washinton state's $7.93 an hour, the highest in the nation.'
This doesn't make any sense, and just deepens my questioning of the education level at Newsweek. Look Rob, it's called the minimum wage for a reason - it's a minimum. You can pay your workers more if you want. In a way, a low minimum wage could be good for you. Maybe pay $6.00 an hour; then you will attract all the best low wage workers if everyone else is paying the minimum wage. I'm not trying to comment on the rightness or wrongness of raising the minimum wage, just on the idiocy of this quote.
