[marcus_holmes]

High School students do not work full-time, by definition, and so therefore are never going to earn a "living wage" in the sense that that phrase means.

The whole "but kids" argument about minimum wages is a pointless distraction from the actual debate, which is "should there be full-time adult jobs that pay so little that those doing it are living in poverty?".

Personally I think it's obvious that the answer is "no", and any society that answers "yes" needs to take a good long look at itself and what it's actually trying to achieve.