On the recordMay 1, 1996
Well, I think statistics have proven over the years that a minimum wage will not create one job. Statistics prove that we lose jobs for those very people that we are trying to help. And you know none of us want to people to stay in a minimum wage job. Mr. Speaker, I would just say my children, Curt and Heidi, worked their way through high school and college with different jobs. They depended on those minimum wages. You know, there are very few folks that really wanted to give them more. They were training, they were learning about getting to a job on time, learning what it meant to be there and to follow some of the rules and some of the basics. Many of these minimum wage jobs apply to students across this Nation, both in high school and in college, and many of those students and young people are the very people, the minority students and such, that we are trying to help.
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