Since when do teachers earn minimum wage?

The only people who minimum wage effects (at least on the employee side) are teenagers and low-skilled workers - for instance, people who work in food service and department stores.

But when minimum wage goes up, if your employer doesn't feel that your job is worth $7.25/hour or whatever, he just doesn't hire you. Instead, if he can, he hires someone who he'd pay more but who he knows can get more work done for the money or he buys a machine to do your job. If he can't do that, he scales back on output. There's no point in producing if it costs you more money than you get.

The minimum wage in PA went up to above $7 2 summers ago. The summer before that, my friends from high school and I had no problems trying to find summer jobs. I found one within 2 weeks; my friends found theirs in comparable times. 2 years ago though, it took me over 20 applications and 1 month to find a really awful job that I spent the summer hating. My friends all had similar experiences; most never got summer jobs at all. Out of all of my friends, only about half of them managed to get jobs.
The teen unemployment rate in PA rose by a factor of almost %20. You could try to argue that this rose because of a poor economy, but that would have been reflected in the total unemployment rate in PA. That only rose by a factor of about 1%.

If you want to know who minimum wage actually helps, look no further than its biggest lobbyist: the AFL-CIO. But union workers already make more than minimum wage, so they don't see any increase in pay. Their benefits are a bit different. I'll let you try to figure that one out.

Ah yes, those liberal teachers.....what a wonderful voter base.

$6.65 $7.25 $8.25 $100....how much is enough for teen part time workers????

You guys are morons!!!!