[/h]]There is a local popular Mom & Pop chicken place in town that has been around for like 3 generations. Many years ago they use to have a chicken farm out back the small restaurant out front. The chicken farm is not there any longer but the chicken place is still running strong. Chicken of various versions like a whole chicken, chicken meals of selected white and/or dark meat, chicken tenders, chicken wings, burgers, fries, cheese sticks, fried pickles and stuff like that.
Other than the owner and his family and the cooks, it's mostly high school or college kids running the front. The place gives back to the community by donating food to the local food pantries, sponsoring little league sports teams and stuff. They pay above state minimum wage (I think MA minimum wage is around $16/hr) to support the kids but if they were mandated to pay $20/hr they would probably pack it in and call it a day. The community would probably lose the donations that they offer and jobs for the kids. That's a negative.
Minimumy wage is not meant to be a livable wage to support an entire family with bills, insurance, food, housing etc.. If you expect taking orders at a fast food joint, being a cashier at a grocery store, handing out doughnuts and coffee in the drive up window and so on... if you expect that income to support a household then you need to reevaluate your expectations. It's a starting wage and use it and the other opportunities available to start your way to get you going so you can move on to get further skills or education to achieve a true living wage.
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