young people who haven t had the job experience, these people aren t worth $15 an hour, in most cases. he just came out and said it, the poor, the minorities, the disenfranchised, young they re not worth it. i m afraid you re was wrong. because the economy this is how it is. labor scares. some are having to do just that. some businesses have quote found a way around the worker shortages which is raising the wages to $15 an hour more. like this ice cream parlor between january and march, so he decided to more than double the starting wage to $15 an hour plus tips to see what would happen. the shop was suddenly flooded with applications. more than 1000 piles over the course of the week. this is of course elemental economics. when something is plentiful, it is likely to be cheap. when it is scarce, it is going to cost more money. so, another way to say labor shortage is just to say worker