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Forget minimum wage.
A quick Google search will tell you, a LIVING wage (which is just enough to make it) in Knox county is around $19.00 an hour. Minimum wage at $7.25 isn't even half of that.
If you worked 60 hours a week, at minimum wage, you would only make $435 a week, before taxes. Most apartments want you to prove 3× income. Meaning, you can only afford $580 a month for rent. And that's working your life away.
Where are you supposed to live? You could maybe afford one week at a hotel.
We need to do away with that minimum wage number. Any employer that disagrees should be boycotted. By both customers and employees.
There's nothing here!