Support increase overall minimum wage Sarah Brecht 19/18/15 Government Raising the minimum wage overall to fifteen dollars an hour would cause a significant impact on modern society and its future‚ overall it would either boost or deplete our economy. It would bring about significant changes and different socio cultural and social class standards. But in the light of the fact that most americans in 2015 with no degree in New York state make up 29.6% of our poverty levels‚ 15.6% with high
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most frequent questions being asked is whether minimum wage should be raised to $15.00 per hour or not. I do feel minimum wage should be raised‚ but raising the minimum wage to $15.00 per hour is more than our economy can afford. Raising minimum wage to $15.00 dollars per hour would only make the cost of living increase. The prices of clothes‚ gas‚ food‚ etc. would sky rocket. The unemployment rate would increase‚ because employers would hire fewer workers‚ and instead more jobs would become replaced
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increasing minimum wage. It has been an increasingly controversial topic in recent years. Minimum is the lowest legal hourly wage a worker can get paid. That being said‚ waiters are paid significantly less because the government believes that their tips will make up the difference. However most of the time it doesn’t make up the difference. Minimum wage is paid to people whose jobs require little or no skill. These are jobs that anyone can do. Conversely people of all ages work minimum wage jobs. Typically
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of minimum wage hike. We saw many voters want the minimum wage to go up‚ so that they can live a better life. Many other articles also show that in the long term its effect would be devastating. Minimum wage has both good and bad effects. We have to take into account the worker that works for minimum wage. They barely have anything left after all the tax money is deducted. It’s hard to maintain a family when someone works for that little money. We have also seen some solutions to minimum wage problems
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increasing the minimum wage would be widespread‚ but not nearly as harmful as many believe. Claire Hovenga‚ Dejava Naik‚ and Walter E. Block argue in their essay‚ “The Detrimental Side Effects of Minimum Wage” that even just having minimum wage encourages the hiring of illegal immigrants‚ discourage workers from bettering themselves‚ and reduce the number of jobs available overall. However‚ they fail to take into account the reality of the situation. Many of the businesses who offer minimum wage are multi-million
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most minimum wage worker minds. Its tough enough for them to work all the time to try to support their family and make ends meet. It will be even harder if minimum wage goes down. Many people will be on the streets or needing to get government help. The minimum wage for california as of July 1‚ 2014 is $9.00 an hour. You may wonder why you are reading this for those who get paid more than minimum wage. Well every action has a reaction. Therefore ‚ even if u get paid way more than minimum wage the
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Life Struggle on Minimum Wage Sometimes life isn’t always as easy as getting a job‚ making money and paying you bills. In her fascinating book on extended essays Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehrenreich poses as an unskilled worker to show the struggles encountered everyday by Americans attempting to live on minimum wage‚ "matching income to expenses as the truly poor attempting to do everyday." (6) Ehrenreich gave herself three rules she had to live by and they were: 1. She could not use her education
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The second fallacy that was enlightening was how minimum wage works. In this crazy year before the next presidential election‚ minimum wage has become a hot button issue. The problem with politics is that no one ever explains the economics of minimum wage. They just throw out policy ideas without actually informing the voting public on how they came to a conclusion. After learning about supply and demand of work force‚ it finally cleared up all the misinformation that I have heard. The greatest thing
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Minimum Wage To improve your wage you need to improve your skill. Employers are wanting people with better skills. They also like it when you improve and develop skills. Employers will give you a better chance than all of your other working associates to raise your wage because you have improved yourself and really improved your skills to be better than your working associates. The skills that you could improve are like education‚ experience and natural talent. Those skills are the main ones that
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“Increasing the minimum wage is a bad move economically‚ philosophically and politically.” This quote by Marc Freedman‚ a distinguished author and CEO of Encore Careers‚ perfectly exemplifies my view on minimum wage. As a minimum wage earner‚ I would enjoy and entertain the idea of a few extra dollars in my pocket that comes with a minimum wage increase. Despite my self-interest‚ I believe in the interest of Ontario and the general population‚ that a minimum wage increase has only negative implications
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