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	Teen Unemployment

mklosinski

9-6-2009 1:53 PM

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unemployment, minimum wage

mklosinski says:

Do you think there this might have something to do with the Minimum Wage?

Leave no incumbent in office.

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9-6-2009 8:56 PM

ColoradoRight

what - you mean paying $7.25 an hour to kids who can't read or write isn't good economic policy?

Let's raise it to $1000 an hour and make everybody a millionaire!

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