Deborah Simmons, a writer for The Washington Times, ask a very interesting question: Why should McDonald's and similar companies be forced to raise their minimum pay for slinging burgers or plopping a basket of fries into a deep fryer?
The average front-line fast-food employees — cashiers, cooks and deliverers — are among the lowest-paying occupations in the U.S. economy with an average wage of $8.94 an hour, according to the National Employment Law Project.
Trying to feed a family on such wages likely leaves parents asking, “And what’s a food pyramid?” But raising Cain at job sites, a favored form of protest for such workers, isn’t a good employment strategy.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/31/simmons-fast-food-jobs-a-good-start-not-a-career/#ixzz2cos1Fvbw
