Dear Senator Gardiner‚ As a current college student and Florida resident‚ I am concerned about the current minimum wage.Many of us are working over 40+ hours and still living below the poverty line.A raise increase for Florida would immensely affect our lives.Raising the minimum wage is particularly important to me because at the moment I am not able to afford medical insurance and being that I am sickle cell anemic I would need to see a hematologist once a month. A person like me would need to
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that the minimum wage of $7.25 is not sufficient to maintain a comfortable lifestyle. There is considerable evidence to show that the current generations comfortable lifestyles require a more luxurious price for standard living. The cost of living over the years has dramatically increased due to high consumer demands of products. As that being said‚ $7.25 is just not enough for a happy lifestyle‚ food‚ and the bills. There are many jobs that dislike or just can’t afford paying high wages. Therefore
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economy? When raising minimum wage‚ that is what the government is doing. The first federal minimum wage was established during the Great Depression. It was meant to increase wages to create a better life for those struggling. People then tended to buy more which caused more job openings (“The Minimum Wage”). This helped a lot during the Great Depression because it made employers pay the people a fair wage. The current federal minimum wage is $7.25. Raising the minimum wage to $15 will over double
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Along with additional information‚ the best wat to gage the true effect of the minimum wage would be to examine Card and Krueger’s actual experiment results. Unfortunately‚ we cannot rule out‚ based on that individual case study that the effects were in truth larger or smaller than what was examined in the case of New Jersey raising their minimum wage in 1992(). Given the problems surrounding Card and Krueger’s minimum wage research‚ Dube‚ Lester and Reich replicated Card and Krueger’s New Jersey-Pennsylvania
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Literature Review:Raise of Minimum Wage Minimum wage is a topic that is always being discussed and debated over. One reason that this subject is so popular is because everyone who has a job is affected by the result of the wage. Some believe that the minimum should be raise to at least $9‚ while others strongly believe that the raise in wages will disturb the state of the economy. In the articles I have selected the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage are clearly stated. Some of the texts
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Against a Higher Minimum Wage raising the minimum wage hurts the poor. It takes away jobs‚ keeps people on welfare‚ and encourages high-school students to drop out. Policy makers should be clear on the consequence of higher minimum wages. Jobs and the Minimum Wage Economists have studied the job-destroying features of a higher minimum wage. It is important to recognize that the jobs lost are mainly entry-level jobs. By destroying entry-level jobs‚ a higher minimum wage harms the lifetime
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working at minimum wage could benefit from increases in the minimum wage. However‚ can the minimum wage be too high? The minimum wage controls the gap between the rich and the poor: a gap that many think is too large and could be lowered by increasing the minimum wage. Although they are correct in saying that increasing the minimum wage could reduce the gap between the rich and the poor‚ the minimum wage can still be too high. I argue not upon the question of raising or lowering the minimum wage‚ but upon
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restaurants are ripping off international students‚ paying wages as little as $10 an hour and take advantage of students desired need for work. A large number of foreign students in this cash industry‚ where visa restrictions are broke‚ receive wages well below the legal entitlement‚ and laws on working conditions are ignored. Restaurants in Melbourne’s China Town and Chadstone shopping centre are paying wages below the legal minimum wage of $17.70 an hour. Chinese student Chiquita Yu is working
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Does increasing the price of goods just to raise minimum wage sound like a good idea? There is debate whether the minimum wage should be raised. Everyone probably has a different take on the idea of this. It wont actually decrease poverty‚ which is why the whole thing is being brought up; because people assume it‚ will. My point is that the minimum wage should not be raised. Minimum wage is not just about somebodies income. Raising it will have much greater affect on the economy. The cost
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