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Is a minimum wage intended to provide support for one person or for a family (including dependents)? You aren't really clear in your comment on this point, which is common confusion in much discussion of this topic.

If it is for an entire family, then shouldn't there be a different, lower minimum wage for an individual without a family? What about a teenager with an after school job? What about a retiree who is just trying to keep busy but doesn't need a living wage at all?



IMO an average household. Going into more detail than that is a slippery slope towards profiling and discriminatory pay.


How does that work? If the minimum wage is intended to be sufficient for an "average household", then shouldn't it be less for a household without children, and smaller still for a single person?


That is discrimination.


So by your logic an employer would be required to pay every employee a wage that would allow them to support a family even if they don't have a family to support?


Yes. I’m talking about the minimum wage for any employee.

Consider the fact that it is illegal in the US to ask an interviewee their age, marital status, and family status, among other things.


None of that is illegal. You can ask, but you can't discriminate.



The page is wrong. Those are not illegal questions.


Agree to disagree


Um, no, you can read the law itself or follow some links on the page you linked. This isn't a matter of opinion.


Any employee? Part time job for a teenager?


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