re: POTUS draws on vast experience yet again re: salary/overtime

It certainly is a complex issue. Not everyone can or needs to go to college. However, our country's economy has moved away from an abundance of decent paying labor jobs.

You have workers at McDonald's in NYC complaining that they can't provide for their family. In reality, they are working a job that was never meant to be a career.

Many under educated folks used to just go work at a plant or factory, but our country has moved many of these facilities oversees where labor is cheap. These people are now stuck working entry level jobs, and are often classified as working poor.

Unfortunately it seems that the burden of allowing these people to achieve a better standard of living falls on the middle class.

Raising the minimum wage, and other methods of helping out low wage earners inevitably speeds up inflation.

The real solution shouldn't be paying people more to do less, but to find ways to create better paying jobs for people.

I guess I really am just curious to see how much more expensive it would be to buy more goods made here.