Who’s faring the worst in the recession: young, poorly educated menhttp://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2009/11/21/70851.aspxYou can directly blame the minimum wage hike for this. As economists predicted, those who are hurt the worst by raising the minimum wage are those on the bottom of the economic ladder: the young, the poorly educated, etc. From the New York Times : AndenCommunityServer 2007 SP2 (Build: 20611.960)