Would a $9 minimum wage hurt McDonald's?

Note that .66%, that is point six-six percent of the full time population works at minimum wage. The Glassdoor web site lists numerous jobs at McD's. No one really works at min wage their entire career. Even Glassdoor's salary range for Crew member ranges up to $9-10 an hour.

Someone with some ambition,  can move to a Shift Manager. A fry cook according to the website earns an average of $8.23 and up to $12.

Keep in mind thse are transient job, held mainly by high school and collefge kids to earn spending money.

1) $9.00/hr will reduce hours.  Less hours worked, sent home if business drops off and slower service.

2) food prices go up, poor people can not go out to eat.

3) Everyone from Wal-Mart to the corner store will use less people and make them work harder.

4) the people whose hours are cut will not appear as unemployed since they either make too little to qualify or will have hours reduced but still unable to claim unemployment leaving this number unaffected and the benevolent heroes look good except the people drop off the charts.

5) Any change in the economy becomes everyone else's fault - businesses or bad consumers not bad government.

6) When your kids cannot earn college money, poor youths don't get jobs, retirees earn less money, Of course I see the economy growing.

7)  Less people at the low end of the income level will drop off of the statistics and the net result the average working American is making more money.  We just don't count the drop off.

Coming from someone who works in the industry, this would kill not only the efforts being made to create jobs, but the middle class as well.  Most retail stores as well as some industrial are already cutting people back to under 30 hrs a week because of all the new health care regulations being put into place forcing people to get 2 or even 3 jobs to support themselves.  Raising minimum wage to 9 dollars would force the same people to cut back on the number of employees their to serve everyone.  It will raise prices for people to cover the costs of those lucky enough to stay employed as well.  So now the people who make 10 or maybe 11 dollars an hour and are a bit above those making 7.25 would end up in the same class as those at 9 just creating a larger poor class as all prices will go up so the corporations continue to profit at the same levels and everyone else is left paying for it.

Simple...don't eat the crap at McD's, BK, or other fast food...it's garbage anyway!!!