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When families disagree on teaching teens about fair wages

My teenage daughter wants to work at a local café but they're offering her below minimum wage as a 'trial period' and my husband thinks she should take it for the experience while I think we're teaching her to accept exploitation.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A teenager's first job offer has become a proxy battle over what values to instill about work, fairness, and economic reality.

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“Where Are You with Labor economics — how wages are set?”

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