That's the biggest crock of poop yet, once again where I live in south Carolina no factory pays minimum wage, it's way above it... look on the job boards and research it..the factory in the USA that pay close to their states minimum wage are the ones who raised it above national..
Bear513, the federal minimum wage rate supports all USA's wage scales, including wage scales of South Carolina's factories.
[QUOTE="Supposn, post: 20071369, member: 20145" ... Due to the “wage differentiation” concept, USA wages scales are based upon the reasonably effectively enforced minimum wage rate. When we permit the purchasing power of the minimum rate to be reduced, it induces the purchasing powers of all other USA wage scales to be reduced. ... [/QUOTE]