Despite evidence from around the world that minimum wage
laws can price low-skilled workers out of jobs, the U.S. Department of Labor is
planning to extend minimum wage coverage to domestic workers, such as maids or
those who drop in from time to time to do a few household chores for the sick
and the elderly.
This coverage is scheduled to begin in January 2015 —
that is, after the 2014 elections and nearly two years before the 2016
elections. Politicians show a lot of cleverness in protecting their own
interests, even if they show very little wisdom as far as serving the public
interest.
If making household workers subject to the minimum wage
law is expected to produce good results, why not let those good results begin
early, so that voters will know about them before the next election?
But, if this new extension of the minimum wage law opens
a whole new can of worms — as is more likely — politicians who support this
extension want to insulate themselves from a voter backlash. Hence artfully
choosing January 2015 as the effective date, to minimize the political risks to
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