Deseret News | Ex-lawmaker suggests ways to battle poverty

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Ex-lawmaker suggests ways to battle poverty

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GVS | 3:14 p.m. Sept. 16, 2007

I wonder why unskilled labor wages are so low?? "Haskins said most poor and low-income workers are able to get jobs paying about $8 per hour." Could it because of the cheap labor policies of the government allowing the labor market to be flooded by legal and illegal workers? After all wages are a product of supply and demand, just like any other product. Anyone being paid below subsistence level will require taxpayer support, which is really a wage subsidy for the employers.

Anonymous | 8:25 p.m. Sept. 16, 2007

We're lucky there are even any unskilled labor out there? Eventually they will all just be outsourced...

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