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Notice that the term "Entry Level Job" has been quietly removed from the American lexicon.
Minimum wage jobs were never meant to be career jobs, they are jobs for the elderly and kids. In the past twenty years, the United States has imported millions of people with the mindset that once they get a minimum wage job, they stay forever, that is their career. Sometimes they move to another minimum wage job.
That "Minimum wage job as career" mindset also includes NEVER doing anything to improve yourself, never learning, never advancing and never getting an education You simply stay in the job, keeping others out and scream because your wages are too low to raise your family of five children. That is the mindset of the non-Western immigrants. These people vote for liberals who condemn employers as "stingy" for not giving them more money and when the minimum wage is raised, the government gets more in taxes from the employer.
They take those jobs and stay with them because of the taxpayer funded benefits they receive.
I posted somewhere else on here that a single parent with 2 kids under the age of 16 making $20k/yr is eligible for benefits which net out to the same disposable income as someone else in the same family situation making $50k/yr. (link)
Why better yourself if doing so reduces your standard of living?