Fast-Food Strikes Expand Across U.S. to 50 Cities

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332. You seem to not address the $60K teenagers beyond

'harping' at me for bringing it up. Have you ever driven through a 10,000 population town in the middle of nowhere? Do you think any of the tacky little food/retail/service businesses along Main St. are paying their employees anything more than minimum wage? More to the point, do you even CARE what would happen to these small mom and pops if they were forced to double their payroll?

Do you think the nature of their economy, which I would guess to be mostly farming related AND local, would allow these small businesses to raise their prices by 25% and not lose customers and/or lay off workers?

In 2000, slightly more than one-half of the nation’s population lived in jurisdictions --- cities, towns, boroughs, villages and townships --- with fewer than 25,000 people or in rural areas (from one source, accurate?).

Again, the fact that a couple of teenagers with no experience in the workplace, just out of high school with C- averages can earn $60,000 per year on the surface seems troubling to me, even more so if they live in a small town. For example, Columbus, Nebraska has a population of 22,000. The median income for a household in the city is $38,874, and the median income for a family is $48,669. In this environment the '$60K Kids' would indeed be in 'high clover'. Whether or not they 'deserve' it is the type of esoteric question which keeps 2nd year philosophy/sociology students pontificating into the wee hours on a drug/alcohol fueled Friday night, none of whom will actually ever LIVE in one of those small towns.