I'm always reading that pensioners, college students, teenagers, and others would like to work part-time but do not find the work, so that counts as underemploy

I'm always reading that pensioners, college students, teenagers, and others would like to work part-time but do not find the work, so that counts as underemployment too eh. I think a combination of a higher minimum wage and a shorter standard work week - introduced simultaneously in discrete steps over three or four years, say - would transform lives on a massive scale. But unfortunately everything in America seems to be at best ossified, and at worst headed into the dumper.