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Originally Posted by Platapus
One of the problems is that the government is reluctant to explain, clearly, what the purpose/goal of the minimum wage is.
Is a single person expected to maintain their life based solely on a minimum wage rate? Dunno. The government does not state that.
That has always been my question about the minimum wage -- what is it intended to do. Without knowing that, it is impossible to evaluate what the minimum wage should nor should not be.
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I can't really confirm for the US government (sadly I'm not employed by them), but I think the goal of the minimum wage in general is either to meet the living wage of a nations employees, or to be a compromise between the living wage and what industries can afford. It depends on nation to nation, really. In the UK it's the latter, in other nations it's the former.