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LETTER: Employers complain of a worker shortage

Employers claim people want to stay on unemployment rather than work. Well let’s do the math.

If you offer me a job making $7 an hour, in two weeks, I bring home $300. Big companies want you to work for nothing while they give all their top bosses raises and bonuses. Seems to me that, if I get more on unemployment in one week than I get working two weeks, a $15-an-hour minimum wage is in order. But what do I know?

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