No one can survive on $9 an hour, the minimum wage is an insult and people are tempted to go on welfare.
We have the same thing up here too, not all of us are smart and able to cope with modern technology, the jobs these people did back the day have been given to the Chinese. Thank all the shoppers at KMart for the lost jobs.
Employers these days do not want to train anybody, if you do not know how to do the job you are out of luck, no training so the best that they can get is a minimum wage job, why should they care. The $9 an hour does not buy loyalty, they could be fired before they earn the next $9, so who can blame them? Not me . Treating people like that leads to crime.