The Trade Offs of Minimum Wage Laws

When he was 13 years old my mother said to me, Alan, you're getting a job. The next day I was there working for 235 an hour in a pharmacy. That became the first of a series of jobs that I had,. I was an ice cream scooper at a Hagen-dass, I was a stock boy at an electronic store and during the summers I worked as a cabana boy at a pool. And I feel like that doesn't happen anymore, no employer in their right mind is going to hire a 13 year old boy. Why would they... I'm not even sure they can do it legally.

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