Comment Re:A part time jobs is not a career (Score 1) 194
You seem to be confusing "part-time job" with "minimum wage" and "non-skilled labor" with "young, drug-addled, and incompetent". Funny how all those "non-skilled" jobs have suddenly become "essential" in the last 8 months...
Part-time jobs employ part-time workers as well as numerous under-employed workers who work multiple jobs to make ends meet. This includes young people, students, people needing something to do short term, and also full-time employees who require additional income because our current min. wage @ 40 hrs/week doesn't house, clothe, medicate, and feed a family (let alone an individual). Regardless, a part-time employee should receive the same benefits as their full-time counterpart, pro-rated to reflect their hours. And those full-time benefits should be enough to cover housing, clothing, preventative medicine, and food. Something like a "minimum" payable "wage" necessary to afford those things.
I'd happily pay $2.30 for a cheeseburger if it meant my neighbors earned a livable wage + medical benefits. We're already subsidizing a livable wage + medical benefits through corporate welfare. Why not cut out the middle-men and give it directly to the people?