History of Minimum Wage
Minimum wage in the United States was founded in the year 1938 in the Great Depression when President Franklin Roosevelt was in office. Minimum wage was set at twenty five cents per hour and was increased by the congress at least twenty two times the most ever since the year 2009. In the year 1890 wages of Americans were a total of $380 which was below the poverty line of $500 per year at the time. America got the idea from looking at examples from Australia and New Zealand who introduced minimum wages in the 1890s. In the year 1912 minimum wage started in Massachusetts and after words elven more states would join the laws of minimum wages that covered women and minors and not men between the years of 1913 and 1917. …show more content…
Some people say that it will help with job growth and help the economy expand. In this topic, this will discuss a few reasoning’s to raise the level of minimum wages. Increasing the minimum wage would reduce the poverty level in the United States. For an example, Colorado’s minimum wage in 2017 is $9.30 an hour and work 40 hours a week with 52 weeks in the year they earn about $19,344 in an entire year which is above the poverty level of less than $10,000 a year. Due to minimum wage inflation rates have not been able to keep up. Raising minimum wage would ensure that low wage workers could adapt to this standard to help with the current economy status. Minimum wage would also increase to help reduce gender inequality; a fact is that 63% of women have minimum wage jobs. African Americans represent 12% of the United States workforce and together then represent around 18% of minimum wage. Americans do support a raise. A poll was conducted and it says that 80% percent of Americans would like to see a raise of $10.10 an hour which this included Democrats and two thirds of Republicans support the raise of minimum wages. Some voters in different states would then vote in November that minimum wages would go up in their cities and the votes were always for it. Voters would always seem to support the change and it would be …show more content…
Personally, I would like it to stay where it is at in Colorado. I would not want to see it reach up to 15$ because it would make all prices for everything go up and as someone who has trouble with their bills and has trouble finding employment this is part of the reason why I am in college it is so I can afford to get a higher paying job in the field of interest. When I was working retail and the manager said that minimum wage went up by a whole dollar and thirty cents I saw my favorite items go more expensive I could no longer buy them but had to wait at least three months to rebuy that same item. I could be wrong but sometimes minimum wage increases can do a lot for us such as putting more money in our wallets and being able to afford the everyday necessitates like getting food, water, gasoline for our cars or getting that one thing that you’ve been keeping an eye on for the last few months. I interviewed my mom and grandma about this topic so I can have something to write about and results were that they both do not support it. I asked why and my grandma thought about and said that we cannot live on those situations as is because everything is already gone up in prices and that she thinks if that happens unions would want more from money from their employees taking unnecessary amounts of their checks to pay union dues which should only be once a month for paychecks at a low time fee. When my mother was asked the
Minimum wage in the United States was founded in the year 1938 in the Great Depression when President Franklin Roosevelt was in office. Minimum wage was set at twenty five cents per hour and was increased by the congress at least twenty two times the most ever since the year 2009. In the year 1890 wages of Americans were a total of $380 which was below the poverty line of $500 per year at the time. America got the idea from looking at examples from Australia and New Zealand who introduced minimum wages in the 1890s. In the year 1912 minimum wage started in Massachusetts and after words elven more states would join the laws of minimum wages that covered women and minors and not men between the years of 1913 and 1917. …show more content…
Some people say that it will help with job growth and help the economy expand. In this topic, this will discuss a few reasoning’s to raise the level of minimum wages. Increasing the minimum wage would reduce the poverty level in the United States. For an example, Colorado’s minimum wage in 2017 is $9.30 an hour and work 40 hours a week with 52 weeks in the year they earn about $19,344 in an entire year which is above the poverty level of less than $10,000 a year. Due to minimum wage inflation rates have not been able to keep up. Raising minimum wage would ensure that low wage workers could adapt to this standard to help with the current economy status. Minimum wage would also increase to help reduce gender inequality; a fact is that 63% of women have minimum wage jobs. African Americans represent 12% of the United States workforce and together then represent around 18% of minimum wage. Americans do support a raise. A poll was conducted and it says that 80% percent of Americans would like to see a raise of $10.10 an hour which this included Democrats and two thirds of Republicans support the raise of minimum wages. Some voters in different states would then vote in November that minimum wages would go up in their cities and the votes were always for it. Voters would always seem to support the change and it would be …show more content…
Personally, I would like it to stay where it is at in Colorado. I would not want to see it reach up to 15$ because it would make all prices for everything go up and as someone who has trouble with their bills and has trouble finding employment this is part of the reason why I am in college it is so I can afford to get a higher paying job in the field of interest. When I was working retail and the manager said that minimum wage went up by a whole dollar and thirty cents I saw my favorite items go more expensive I could no longer buy them but had to wait at least three months to rebuy that same item. I could be wrong but sometimes minimum wage increases can do a lot for us such as putting more money in our wallets and being able to afford the everyday necessitates like getting food, water, gasoline for our cars or getting that one thing that you’ve been keeping an eye on for the last few months. I interviewed my mom and grandma about this topic so I can have something to write about and results were that they both do not support it. I asked why and my grandma thought about and said that we cannot live on those situations as is because everything is already gone up in prices and that she thinks if that happens unions would want more from money from their employees taking unnecessary amounts of their checks to pay union dues which should only be once a month for paychecks at a low time fee. When my mother was asked the