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Because single mothers exist, so supporting a family on one income is needed to ensure a minimal amount of suffering happens to children who didn't ask to be po
by allhailkatt 9y ago
Because single mothers exist, so supporting a family on one income is needed to ensure a minimal amount of suffering happens to children who didn't ask to be poor, and have no way of opting out of poverty.
Also, modest = minimal by the original standards.
Historical context: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/minimum_wage https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/minimum_wage
- ggg9990 9y agoIt's much better to identify single mothers and make sure their kids are OK with welfare than make the national minimum wage enough to do so.
- will_hughes 9y agoBetter for whom?
- ggg9990 9y agoBetter for the people paying the wages and the other consumers of those people's goods and services, and for workers who are employable only at particularly low wages.