I think we should also say, at this juncture, and that due to modernization there will be fewer low-skill jobs as time goes on.
That means there is 2-pronged need to be addressed.
1) Skilling up workers to handle at least moderate-skill jobs, through some mixture of offering, mandating, subsidizing or making free, such skill upgrading, particularly to younger workers.
2) There remains a need to understand that whatever job someone holds, they need to be able to 'survive' on it, and that does mean raising minimum wages and/or using the tax system to top-up low earnings; mostly likely a combination of both.
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