One of the problems of raising minimum wages is the cost of buying worker robots has come down to $5000 to $6000 which often is a robot that will work 24 hours a day non-stop except for regular maintenence until it wears out (usually around 2 to 3 years) 24 hours a day manufacturing something in a repetitive manner. So, if you do the cost analysis a robot might not ever break down for 2 or 3 years keep doing one or more things constantly during that time, never call in sick or have a baby or other problems like divorce or child custody or baby sitting.
So, as minimum wages rise, robotics and computers become more cost effective so it becomes debatable whether rising minimum wages increase or decrease jobs for people in general.
I think there is general agreement on most fronts that as the minimum wage increases the number of overall jobs decreases for a variety of reasons and I've illustrated only one of those reasons here.
Minimum Wages Will Rise in Nearly Two Dozen States in 2017
byEmma Margolin
Trump pick 'giant middle finger' to workers6:45
Millions of Americans are set to receive higher
pay in the new year, despite the potential confirmation of a millionaire
labor secretary who once opposed the Obama administration's efforts to
raise the federal minimum wage.
Twenty-two states, plus the District of
Columbia, will see their minimum wages increase over the course of 2017,
according to The Fairness Project, a nonprofit organization that
supports progressive causes. In addition, dozens of cities will see
similar hikes.
The raises are owed in large part to a strategy
adopted by the Obama administration to circumvent an obstructionist
Republican Congress. Rather than give up on their domestic policy
agenda, the president and his aides have aggressively used the bully pulpit to push cities and states toward adopting key proposals — including a higher minimum wage.
Minimum wage protests erupt across nation0:29
The raises also reflect a galvanized grassroots
effort that managed to convince an enormous number of voters of the need
for higher pay.
"Seventy percent of these raises came from
ballot initiatives," Jonathan Schleifer, executive director of The
Fairness Project, told NBC News. "So it's not so much that there's been a
major shift from our elected officials… Rather, it's low-wage workers,
it's their neighbors, it's folks in their communities who overwhelmingly
voted to support ballot initiatives raising the minimum wage."
States that are seeing raises due to ballot
measures include: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Florida, Maine, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon,
South Dakota, Washington and the District of Columbia.
Sam Petulla / NBC News
Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, New York and Vermont, meanwhile, have their lawmakers to thank
for the minimum wage hikes.
Some of the increases are small, amounting to
only a few cents — as in Florida, where minimum wage will go from
$8.05-an-hour to $8.10 on January 1. But workers' rights advocates
insist any increase, no matter how tiny, makes a difference.
"When you're talking about the types of
decisions that minimum wage workers are making — trading off whether
they'll pay their healthcare bill or their groceries -- any increase is
significant," Schleifer said.
The raises are especially notable when compared
to the federal minimum wage, which has stayed constant at $7.25 since
2009. President-elect Donald Trump's pick for labor secretary, Andrew F.
Puzder, opposed the
Obama administration's efforts to raise the federal minimum wage to
$10.10 — well below the $15 minimum wage that many advocates are calling
for.
"The new labor secretary has been opposed to the
interests of workers on almost every level, including expanding
overtime wages and raising the minimum wage," said Paul Sonn, general
counsel and program director at the National Employment Law Project, a
workers' rights group.
Even if Puzder is confirmed, the movement to raise minimum wages at the state and local level will prevail, Sonn said.
"This movement will only get stronger," he said.
For this reason starting your own business is a good idea for the long haul of your life since 40% of all jobs are going to be gone within 25 years in the U.S.
So, if you are working part time you could also 4 hours a day work on starting a business and learning the ropes of doing that. Regarding business in general we learn much more from our failures than our successes. So, people who succeed in business generally never give up but start small businesses at first with very little capital to test their markets.
Problems arise when you try to go too big to fast with no business experience or acumen in that field.
However, there may be new jobs we have never heard of before that will also start in the future but likely you will need some college or special training to get those jobs.
Also, if you are trying to get a green card here in the U.S. and are allowed to stay here while doing this you can still own a business and work in that business as long as you are not taking a job an American would want. So, owning a business is even an option while waiting for your green card here in the U.S.
Millions
of Americans are set to receive higher pay in the new year, despite the
potential confirmation of a millionaire labor secretary who once
opposed the Obama administration's efforts to raise the federal minimum
wage. Twenty …
Minimum Wages Will Rise in Nearly Two Dozen States in 2017
byEmma Margolin
Trump pick 'giant middle finger' to workers6:45
Millions of Americans are set to receive higher
pay in the new year, despite the potential confirmation of a millionaire
labor secretary who once opposed the Obama administration's efforts to
raise the federal minimum wage.
Twenty-two states, plus the District of
Columbia, will see their minimum wages increase over the course of 2017,
according to The Fairness Project, a nonprofit organization that
supports progressive causes. In addition, dozens of cities will see
similar hikes.
The raises are owed in large part to a strategy
adopted by the Obama administration to circumvent an obstructionist
Republican Congress. Rather than give up on their domestic policy
agenda, the president and his aides have aggressively used the bully pulpit to push cities and states toward adopting key proposals — including a higher minimum wage.
Minimum wage protests erupt across nation0:29
The raises also reflect a galvanized grassroots
effort that managed to convince an enormous number of voters of the need
for higher pay.
"Seventy percent of these raises came from
ballot initiatives," Jonathan Schleifer, executive director of The
Fairness Project, told NBC News. "So it's not so much that there's been a
major shift from our elected officials… Rather, it's low-wage workers,
it's their neighbors, it's folks in their communities who overwhelmingly
voted to support ballot initiatives raising the minimum wage."
States that are seeing raises due to ballot
measures include: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Florida, Maine, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon,
South Dakota, Washington and the District of Columbia.
Sam Petulla / NBC News
Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, New York and Vermont, meanwhile, have their lawmakers to thank
for the minimum wage hikes.
Some of the increases are small, amounting to
only a few cents — as in Florida, where minimum wage will go from
$8.05-an-hour to $8.10 on January 1. But workers' rights advocates
insist any increase, no matter how tiny, makes a difference.
"When you're talking about the types of
decisions that minimum wage workers are making — trading off whether
they'll pay their healthcare bill or their groceries -- any increase is
significant," Schleifer said.
The raises are especially notable when compared
to the federal minimum wage, which has stayed constant at $7.25 since
2009. President-elect Donald Trump's pick for labor secretary, Andrew F.
Puzder, opposed the
Obama administration's efforts to raise the federal minimum wage to
$10.10 — well below the $15 minimum wage that many advocates are calling
for.
"The new labor secretary has been opposed to the
interests of workers on almost every level, including expanding
overtime wages and raising the minimum wage," said Paul Sonn, general
counsel and program director at the National Employment Law Project, a
workers' rights group.
Even if Puzder is confirmed, the movement to raise minimum wages at the state and local level will prevail, Sonn said.
"This movement will only get stronger," he said.
Millions of Americans are set to receive higher
pay in the new year, despite the potential confirmation of a millionaire
labor secretary who once opposed the Obama administration's efforts to
raise the federal minimum wage. 
The raises also reflect a galvanized grassroots
effort that managed to convince an enormous number of voters of the need
for higher pay. 
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