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    Should Minimum Wage be Raised? Some people believe that raising minimum wage will help with economic growth‚ while others believe that minimum wage would do the opposite and actually force the manager to lay off many employees and raise unemployment levels. After researching both sides of this argument I believe that minimum wage should not be raised because after the price is higher‚ the company will not have enough money to pay all their employees and would have to make sacrifices such as laying

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    We the Bengal party believe that the minimum wage should stay at seven dollars and twenty five cents because raising it would result in a catch twenty two. Many Americans want to increase the minimum wage because they feel that it would decrease the poverty rate‚ however the opposite effect would be seen. If the minimum wage were to be raised‚ more people would be pushed into poverty. Employers would have to pay their employees higher wages which could result in less job openings or available hours

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    * what is the living wage * what are the arguments in favor of the living wage * what are the arguments against the living wage * which side do you agree with and why The basic needs of living include food to eat‚ clean water to drink‚ a place to live-shelter‚ and clothes to wear. The living wage is “a wage that is sufficient enough to provide the necessities and comforts essential to an acceptable standard of living” (Merriam-Webster online dictionary). These “necessities” are things

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    Raising the minimum wage affects all workers young and old. You might might think that receiving more money is a good thing but it actually negatively affects the economy and its jobs. Raising the minimum wage will eliminate jobs because the employer has to pay the workers more so they will hire less and might replace them with computers or robots. Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey‚ PhD‚ and Michael A. Osborne‚ DPhil‚ stated in a 2013 study that "robots are already performing many

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    the federal minimum wage‚ can harm? How and who? When looking at the size and the budget of small enterprises‚ we notice that they have limited flexibility. They have to manage carefully their exploitation charges so they can guaranty workers’ salaries. The number of workers needs for a job are function of the job description and the market supply and demand. Because of limited flexibilities and the instable market condition‚ small enterprises have to control well employees’ wage if they wanted

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    finding a positive policy for minimum wage. Minimum wage laws usually don’t help who they’re originally set out to. Now with Nikes’ minimum age requirements it helps those it was naturally set up for. The minimum age requirement also prevents teenagers from dropping out and taking on full time jobs at Nike. Philip H. Knight knows people respond to incentives‚ principle 4 of economics. So he established loan programs‚ continuing education for employees and increased wages. These incentives are good

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    If you have ever worked for minimum wage‚ I am sure you have felt as if your time was worthless. After taxes you brought home next to nothing‚ no matter how often you worked. That ’s at least how I felt when I worked for minimum wage. In high school I had nothing to pay for but a cell phone. I worked for minimum wage and it seemed like I barely could afford it. I had basically no bills and I worked around twenty hours a week‚ and it seemed like I couldn ’t save any money. I always wondered how my

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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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    Minimum Wage Laws in America During the State of the Union speech President Barack Obama address to America that no worker should have to work full time and still remain in poverty. As the cost of living continues to rise across the United States‚ America’s minimum wage is left unchanged. We must find the appropriate balance and yield better compensation to our citizens or otherwise working class Americans will simply not be able to cope with cost of living. Raising minimum wage across America

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    America faces the issue of whether the minimum wage should be raised; three-fourths of Americans support an increase‚ while the other third does not support it or has no opinion. In 2007‚ Congress modified the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 with the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. This set in motion a sequence of raises in the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $5.85 to $6.55 and a final raise in 2009 to $7.25 an hour (“History of Changes to the Minimum Wage Law”). At the time‚ numerous workers

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