From our diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Times, on the minimum wage:
...Jay Ambrose cited Bureau of Labor Statistics studies showing that "something less than 1 percent" of all workers make only minimum wage. "Most are under 25, and many are in households with a number of jobs and an average total income in all the households of $40,000," he added. Ambrose's solution: "Stop the annual flow of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to this country, thereby lessening a supply of workers who view $5.15 and even less as a marvelous amount."Hmm...I don't know. It seems like illegal immigrants need the money more than American teens though Mexican immigrants tend to send the money south, thus softening the need for economic reform in Mexico. Although really, if things aren't bad enough in Mexico now for economic reform it's hard to picture how bad things would have to get.
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