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    you to understand about minimum wage. Minimum wage should be raised because some people need the money. Minimum wage was originally 25 cents an hour‚ which works out to about $4 per hour in today’s money. That minimum wage was introduced as part of the Fair labor Standards Act. The first federal minimum wage laws were passed in America in 1938. Minimum wage should be raised because of crime‚ medical‚ and financial reasons Many might say that raising the minimum wage would increase crime issues

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    Should minimum wage be raised to a higher pay to help families support each other and have more money to be able to get the necessities you need or should the minimum stay the same to keep prices of items the same? Also‚ continue how we are with different places having different wages and finding the place that best fits you? Currently many states have minimum wages under $10 an hour‚ in Indiana its $7.25. The wages are being challenged because many are saying it should be raised to help families

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    less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt worked hard to improve wages for workers. The first act requiring employers to pay a minimum wage was the Fair Labor Act Standards Act of 1938 was during President Roosevelt’s administration. It passed important laws concerning child labor and maximum hours per week as well as wages to workers of certain industries. Workers today are still fighting to make a living wage. Anyone in a country

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    Minimum wage has been a controversial debate for many years. Many proponents argued that the minimum wage should be raised for many positive reasons. These reasons include: lift people out of poverty and create income equality‚ reduce government welfare spending‚ and increase consumer spending. While many other opponents argued‚ minimum wage should not be raised because of the negative impacts associated with it. These impacts include: increase in poverty because many workers will lose their jobs

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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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    If America is a place to go to better yourself‚ why is it that there are 47 million people today living in poverty? In order to resolve this epidemic‚ the big corrupt businesses should be confronted and force them to raise minimum wage to return to a sustained America. While America is struggling to remain afloat‚ big companies like Mcdonalds seem to mock the attempts. Their argument is their workers do not need to have higher pay‚ because majority of them are teenagers living at home.(Source

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    The Starvation Wage “I don’t think that it is a terribly radical idea to say that in America‚ if somebody works 40 hours a week that person should not be living in poverty‚” Bernie Sanders passionately exclaims in one of his campaign rallies. Unfortunately‚ the reality is many Americans do work full time and do not have a home to return to after working tirelessly to support themselves. It is an important duty of the American people to help bring these workers to justice and to give them the fair

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    Minimum Wage Increase The minimum wage must be raised today because the cost of living has gone up drastically. Education is essential today‚ and that price tag has increased drastically in the past twenty years as well. People should not have to fight for equal pay for equal work. Companies should be forced to pay their workers what they deserve‚ and that is more than minimum wage is now. With our new technology and the technology in the future work is harder and more complicated. A minimum

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    wanting the minimum wage to be raised to $15 a hour‚ but if the government were to raise the minimum wage there would be a big impact to the US. There is a movement called “Fight for $15” where people do friendly protests fighting for $15 dollars a hour. They have had many protests spanning from New York to California outside of fast food places. Little do the protesters know is that raising the minimum wage will cause mass loss of Jobs‚ Increased Taxes and Inflation. Minimum wage should not be raised

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    making minimum wage yourself ”[Koerting 11]. The rich argue that the government should not give directly to the people but rather build institutions such as libraries‚ schools‚ and universities where those who want to succeed‚ can succeed. A minimum wage may protect the worker from ridiculously low wages but only encourages lethargy among those who earn it and raising the minimum wage would have the same corresponding and increasing affect. A major idea of the American Dream is to start with nothing

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