Summary Of The Pay Is Too Damn Low
The tug-of-war with minimum wage between government and society has been surfacing for the past few years. Minimum wage is suppose to be the minimum living wage, but that has not been the case in the past decade or so. Being a student, this subject is important to me because if I do find a job on the job market, it will quite likely be a minimum wage job that will have to pay not only for my school but also my living expenses.
In the article "The Pay is Too Damn Low" (2013) the author, James Surowiecki, describes minimum wage jobs in the United
States of America. He summarizes what minimum wage has been in the past, while stressing the conflict of what people need versus what companys can afford.towards Towards the end of the article, …show more content…
He suggests other ways to make workers have an easier time living with minimum wage by expanding and improving areas that are controlled by the government. This could raise questions of where the money would come from to do all these improvements? Would the costs of these improvements be equivilant to raising the minimum wage to what was wanted before? If these improvements cause the government to raise taxes, would this decrease sales in the companies that he was trying to relieve pressure from? The interesting points he raised was bringing in other issues and seeing how they were all connected, and the idea of creating better jobs instead of improving bad jobs.
The Globe and Mail published the article "If the Minimum Wage Rises, Will the Sky Fall?" (2014) which mainly discusses how raising minimum wage will not eradicate poverty, and it will not reduce jobs. Many examples of minimum wage are used to illustrate the idea of how other parts of Canada and the United States of America have about $10-$11 as minimum wage while places like Austrailia have a minimum wage of $16. Lastly, this article emphasized the fact that
In the article "The Pay is Too Damn Low" (2013) the author, James Surowiecki, describes minimum wage jobs in the United
States of America. He summarizes what minimum wage has been in the past, while stressing the conflict of what people need versus what companys can afford.towards Towards the end of the article, …show more content…
He suggests other ways to make workers have an easier time living with minimum wage by expanding and improving areas that are controlled by the government. This could raise questions of where the money would come from to do all these improvements? Would the costs of these improvements be equivilant to raising the minimum wage to what was wanted before? If these improvements cause the government to raise taxes, would this decrease sales in the companies that he was trying to relieve pressure from? The interesting points he raised was bringing in other issues and seeing how they were all connected, and the idea of creating better jobs instead of improving bad jobs.
The Globe and Mail published the article "If the Minimum Wage Rises, Will the Sky Fall?" (2014) which mainly discusses how raising minimum wage will not eradicate poverty, and it will not reduce jobs. Many examples of minimum wage are used to illustrate the idea of how other parts of Canada and the United States of America have about $10-$11 as minimum wage while places like Austrailia have a minimum wage of $16. Lastly, this article emphasized the fact that