Minimum Wage Debate Essay
Issue
I’m campaigning for a minimum wage to increase to $19.25 an hour. With population expanding and prices, many find themselves struggling to get by on the current minimum wage per hour $14.25, found significantly lower than the average living cost required. Living wage is the difference between rich and poor. I learnt a lot of house problems in people can't afford good houses as they don't get paid enough with the minimum wage. The living wage is the amount one needs to afford the standard costs of living such as Food, Housing, and Activities in some countries the living standard is below the average income of the country. For example a cleaner may have very low salary, and therefore cannot afford to participate in extracurricular activities.
The student has developed a plan for a social action that considers ethical implications?
My social action is …show more content…
My social action is I've uploaded a poster, with words and couple people I’ve shared the link to had seen it, and I've taken the point of view of their people. The social action in the poster is very clear and gets on point of the meaning as quickly as possible but still maintains a solid vocabulary. The aim is to inform of the subject and discuss the wage issue.
Strength & Weakness
The strength of this action is it helps poor people lift themselves up. However a weakness is it hasn’t really affected them since it just a poster, with words. Also not many people have seen it, and the people are in a situation where it doesn’t really affect them. Another weakness is people not to impress or informed by my poster since they knew of the subject and have seen many people discuss the wage issue.
Donald socio-economic background
Donald is a student from a middle class family he is against living wage. His mind-set is his parents raised him to believe that minimum wage jobs are about earning job experience for the careers. However his parents don’t want him to be stuck in a minimum wage
I’m campaigning for a minimum wage to increase to $19.25 an hour. With population expanding and prices, many find themselves struggling to get by on the current minimum wage per hour $14.25, found significantly lower than the average living cost required. Living wage is the difference between rich and poor. I learnt a lot of house problems in people can't afford good houses as they don't get paid enough with the minimum wage. The living wage is the amount one needs to afford the standard costs of living such as Food, Housing, and Activities in some countries the living standard is below the average income of the country. For example a cleaner may have very low salary, and therefore cannot afford to participate in extracurricular activities.
The student has developed a plan for a social action that considers ethical implications?
My social action is …show more content…
My social action is I've uploaded a poster, with words and couple people I’ve shared the link to had seen it, and I've taken the point of view of their people. The social action in the poster is very clear and gets on point of the meaning as quickly as possible but still maintains a solid vocabulary. The aim is to inform of the subject and discuss the wage issue.
Strength & Weakness
The strength of this action is it helps poor people lift themselves up. However a weakness is it hasn’t really affected them since it just a poster, with words. Also not many people have seen it, and the people are in a situation where it doesn’t really affect them. Another weakness is people not to impress or informed by my poster since they knew of the subject and have seen many people discuss the wage issue.
Donald socio-economic background
Donald is a student from a middle class family he is against living wage. His mind-set is his parents raised him to believe that minimum wage jobs are about earning job experience for the careers. However his parents don’t want him to be stuck in a minimum wage