Minimum wage is the least amount of money per hour that workers must be paid according to the law. The issue that is debated regularly across the world is on whether or not minimum wage should increase. For years civilians have raised protests to increase minimum wage. For instance in “Florida gets it right: raising the minimum wage,” Kelly Candaele states that “in 2003, ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), a national community-organizing group with a hundred and sixty thousand dues-paying members in twenty-eight states, commissioned a Florida poll that found widespread support for increasing the state's minimum wage.” The viewpoints on the issue are for minimum wage …show more content…
The big problem with the increasing minimum wage is inflation, a sustained increase in the general level of prices for goods and services. With more money coming inside the bank, more money are leaving the bank to pay for common necessities such as food. The government uses this technique to mulatutate citizens to give more taxes. In “Minimum wages as stealth tax,” Thomas MaCurdy agrees that “if someone's income is arbitrarily increased thanks to a legislatively mandated wage increase, someone else must pay for it.” Thomas MaCurdy comments on the higher priced goods by stating “higher minimum wages cause some workers to lose their jobs.” Something that is the citizens thought as beneficial can lead to their financial …show more content…
As television prevents citizens with a good view about what’s going on in today’s economy where children who don’t have enough money to spend on things that they desire, but on necessities needed for survival. According to “In-Work Poverty And The Living Wage In The United Kingdom: A Geographical Perspective,” Wills states that “in London, more than half of all poor children live in a household where at least one adult works, and the latest data indicate that this involves as many as 330,000 dependent children.”
In conclusion, minimum wage is an important matter to be discussed in ways to rise or remain unchanged. Minimum wage can appeal to the reader’s sense of pathos and having an empathy for the less fortunate, but, it can change someone’s life opposite down. There are different viewpoints on everything because everybody has a different opinion on any topic, but there are times when a majority believe in one issue is wrong such as minimum wage staying the same, change must be made to appease the