Makes it way easier to gain support for “letting the kids work.” Since they’re just kids, we can probably let employers pay them less than minimum wage…paying all those kids a full minimum wage would cost too many jobs…besides, its not like they need to “live” off that money…its just supplemental income for the family. Everyone wins! Employers get cheap labor, and the poor are less educated and more desperate and thus easier to exploit.
Makes it way easier to gain support for “letting the kids work.” Since they’re just kids, we can probably let employers pay them less than minimum wage…paying all those kids a full minimum wage would cost too many jobs…besides, its not like they need to “live” off that money…its just supplemental income for the family. Everyone wins! Employers get cheap labor, and the poor are less educated and more desperate and thus easier to exploit.
/s obviously