The people incur guilt by rejecting God s revealed law for families the mechanism that allows them to achieve their goals does not. It is worth noting that the entry of women into the workplace has contributed to a lower cost of market production and lower prices on many goods and services. Recovering the Family Wage These concerns might lead some to advocate a federally mandated living wage, or a minimum wage set at such a level that one earning it could feasibly provide basic necessities for a family. Politicians continue to cling to this solution, though few economic policies are as demonstrably ruinous as wage and price controls. Rather than forcing employers to pay low-wage workers more than their labor is worth, employers simply refuse to keep workers on the payroll who cannot produce enough to justify their paycheck.
Unemployment is the unambiguous result.
Teenagers just entering the labor force are particularly hard-hit, so that their opportunities for building up a work history and savings for education and family are significantly reduced. Adults already supporting families are denied the freedom to use even the few workplace skills they possess. Recovering the family wage by resorting to state solutions is decidedly not the correct response. Apart from the fact that the state contributed so much to the problem in the first place, promoting a certain wage is not one of the state s Biblical responsibilities. Allan Carlson suggests tax credits for children, which is fine any reduction in taxes would be nice.