Responding to ‘Another Side to a Minimum Wage’
To the Editor:
There are many false arguments in Kenneth W. Costello’s letter about the “other side of minimum wage.”
Perhaps the biggest one, from personal experience in academia, is that employers will train low-wage workers. But let’s start with an example that can be easily extended.
We enacted a minimum wage for teachers so that they could afford to live in Santa Fe and teach here. The argument holds for other workers, skilled and unskilled. If a person has to spend a significant portion of their paycheck to get to the job, to eat enough to be healthy enough to work and many other elements, they will take those jobs.
Read Donut Economics. Your arguments are a capitalist fantasy.
Steven Rudnick, Ph.D., Environmental Scientist/Education,
Eldorado
