A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier

Re:A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier by ShinTakuya on Saturday December 07, 2019 @07:15PM (#21733558)

What about all the many years before 2014 that the US unemployment rate was significantly more than almost all of the European countries? Did the lack of minimum wage help in 2010 when the unemployment rate was 10%?

Also, that's a flat out lie. Greece, Spain, and Italy are pulling up the average with their huge unemployment rates, and the vast majority of unemployment rates besides that are almost the same as the US and in some cases lower.

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Re:A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier by scarface74 on Saturday December 07, 2019 @10:24PM (#21734171)

Every country in the EU has a higher rate than the EU.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/268830/unemployment-rate...

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Re:A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier by ShinTakuya on Saturday December 07, 2019 @10:42PM (#21734213)

I'm assuming you mean than the US. The Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, Malta, Germany and Czech Republic aren't in the EU? Last time I checked they were.

Germany and the Netherlands have some of the highest minimum wages in the world, and yet they have unemployment rates that are lower than the US.

Moreover, your claim was that most of the countries have twice the unemployment rate of the US. Your very own source shows that only 5 of the 28 nations have double or more, and less than half have an unemployment rate 50% greater than the US. Are you going to admit to your lie or are you going to change the story?

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