The main reason there will be fewer under skilled jobs as the minimum wage increases is because as the cost of labor increases it is better for us and other employers to increase the amount of automation we devote to replacing labor with capital. We have been successful in doing that because currently we employee about the same amount of unskilled labor as we did when we were half the size. As a result of the forthcoming increase in the minimum wage we are now in the process of designing a new packing operation that requires fewer unskilled labors. We must do that to maintain our profits. The only people who will be hurt by the increase of the minimum wage are the people with low skills that want a chance to work to develop their skills so they can move on up.
Society is the big winner when people are able to move on up.
They need to get ahead of payments. Social Security was designed to be a pay as you go program so the over charges are being loaned to the Treasury to be spent on other things or transfer the debt from investors to the Social Security Administration. In either way the debt must eventually be repaid from general revenues. Rather than using the over charges on the social security program why not reduce the over charge and let the people who are paying the charge use the money to make a better life for them selves. Some modification of this type would do a great deal to help our employees.