I believe that minimum wage shouldn’t be raised. I think that if it is raised then people are going to want more and more and they won’t be as motivated to work. I feel that people will be getting a hand out and that it is not fair to those who work their backs off. If minimum is wage is raised that it would cause a lot of problems. Yes it would be nice for those who work‚ but there are always those who will slack off and get paid just as much as a hard worker. When minimum wage was created it was
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We believe that gradually raising the minimum wage will increase the standards of living of workers‚ reduces poverty‚ reduces inequality and help businesses work efficiently. Raising minimum wage is essential because the cost of living has gone up considerably. The increase in cost of living makes it impossible to raise a family on a minimum wage job. An average minimum wage worker earns about $14‚500 a year leaving way too many families below the poverty line. The poverty rates in America have been
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current minimum wage is eight dollars and thirty-eight cents an hour in the state of New Jersey. Many minimum wage workers go on strike because they want the wage to be raised to fifteen dollars an hour. The wage should not be raised to the insane fifteen an hour. It should not be raised because unemployment rates will skyrocket‚ prices at stores where minimum wage workers work will go up‚ and because their jobs do not deserve fifteen dollars an hour. So why raise the wage? Is a minimum wage job
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I. Minimum wage is supposed to be a minimum hourly rate of pay that is necessary to live. Minimum wage was not a thing until 1938 when it was created by the Fair Labor Standards Act (“Minimum Wage”). This was supposed to allow people to make the minimum amount of money they needed to provide for themselves and their families‚ and for a while it probably did. Flash forward to today‚ and due to inflation‚ minimum wage is not allowing people to make enough money to support their families. This defeats
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Living on the minimum wage is anything but easy. An increased minimum wage seems so logical‚ so morally clear; a small measure of support for those who need it most. A benefit without any hard cost. An increase seems to be the perfect servant of social mobility. Moreover‚ most New Zealanders agree that minimum wage that minimum wage isn’t just a political ideal‚ but a national essential. “Seems” is the unfortunate but effective word here. Ultimately increasing the minimum wage isn’t proposing a more
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Hello Julia‚ I agree with you. minimum wage should not be raised because there will be high price production‚ and inflation‚ which will hurt consumer especially the low-income family. Raising the minimum wage commonly may be seen as a way to give a low-income worker a raise‚ but it resulted in a surplus since the minimum wage is a price floor. Surplus happens when the quantity of supply is greater than the quantity of demand. In this case‚ more people are willing to work than employers are willing
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of 2 children. John works for minimum wage as a pizza delivery. Samantha works at Mcdonalds‚ she is the cashier. All the money that they makes goes for the 2 children that they have and the house bills and the clothes that they buy. They would like to go out and have some fun but they are unable to. Minimum wage is not making a good amount of money.President Obama is trying to raise minimum wage from 7.25 to 10.10. Lots of people want to increase the amount of minimum wage because they are not happy
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“I am not a role model‚ I am not paid to be a role model. I am paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a basketball‚ doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.” – Charles Barkley. Professional athletes are not the best people to be role models for kids. Steven Ortiz‚ a sociology professor at Oregon State and the author of several published studies on athletes ’ bad behavior says‚ "Spoiled-athlete syndrome begins early in sports socialization. From
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When it comes to the minimum wage‚ there are several debates on whether it should or shouldn’t be raised. It may look like it is a simple problem to solve‚ but it isn’t. An increase in the minimum wage wouldn’t totally help the ones who ask for it‚ but could lead to a series of consequences that would impair‚ not only them‚ but all of us. Firstly‚ raising the price of something reduces the demand for it — as the price charged will be above the equilibrium point — and hence leads to a surplus of
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The role of professional athletes as role models for the youth is a debatable topic. Should they be the people your children look up to and try to be like? Or are they just popular people who have let fame get to their head and influence them to make poor choices? While there are many people who believe that they should be responsible for setting good examples for the millions of children in the world‚ there are equally as many that believe they should not be put under that kind of pressure on top
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