Many people work day by day in California to improve their family’s life styles. They work a double job because they are not able to buy their necessities if they are earning $7.50 an hour. According to the articles "History of California Minimum Wage", California wage history was “January 1, 2007 of $7.50, January 1, 2008 of $8.00, and on July 1, 2014 it went up to $9.00.” Even though we see that the minimum wage is raising it’s happening at a slow pace. Which does not provide us with enough to live with the basic such as food, rents, childcare, and healthcare. Raising the minimum wage can lead to many positive effects like better financial stability, work full time and earn benefits, on the other hand it can also have negative effects, for
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Martin Luther king, jr stated "Most of the poor people in our country are working every day, but making so many wages so inadequate that they cannot even begin to function in the mainstream of the economic life of the nation."(King 158) Many hard working parent work lard long hour and with the amount of money does not seem to be enough for them to live comfortable. Jacobson stated “Barack Obama, the president of the United States informed, We should be raising the minimum wage to make sure that more workers who have been working full-time shouldn’t be living in poverty," numerous amount of people work so much and they still live in poverty its not fair for all those hard working parents to live in this conditions when they are willing to work hard day by day. Raising the minimum wage amount will not only help reduce poverty but also helps to live in better condition there are doing to help the worker elevate their moral …show more content…
Barbara Ehrenreich stated "That when many parents decided to apply for TANF they were humiliating and that the caseworkers would treat them like bums, and acted like every dollar they gave then was coming out of their pocket.” TANF, which stand for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Raising the minimum wage will help the government save some money according to the Article “10 Reasons to Raise the Minimum Wage (with Chart)” States “The same CAP study found that, in conjunction with helping people get off of food stamps, raising the minimum wage would save the government $46 billion over 10 years in spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as people earn enough on their own to no longer qualify.” Many people go seeking for government help to be able to support their families so if minimum wage would rise that it would help many people get out of government
Martin Luther king, jr stated "Most of the poor people in our country are working every day, but making so many wages so inadequate that they cannot even begin to function in the mainstream of the economic life of the nation."(King 158) Many hard working parent work lard long hour and with the amount of money does not seem to be enough for them to live comfortable. Jacobson stated “Barack Obama, the president of the United States informed, We should be raising the minimum wage to make sure that more workers who have been working full-time shouldn’t be living in poverty," numerous amount of people work so much and they still live in poverty its not fair for all those hard working parents to live in this conditions when they are willing to work hard day by day. Raising the minimum wage amount will not only help reduce poverty but also helps to live in better condition there are doing to help the worker elevate their moral …show more content…
Barbara Ehrenreich stated "That when many parents decided to apply for TANF they were humiliating and that the caseworkers would treat them like bums, and acted like every dollar they gave then was coming out of their pocket.” TANF, which stand for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Raising the minimum wage will help the government save some money according to the Article “10 Reasons to Raise the Minimum Wage (with Chart)” States “The same CAP study found that, in conjunction with helping people get off of food stamps, raising the minimum wage would save the government $46 billion over 10 years in spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as people earn enough on their own to no longer qualify.” Many people go seeking for government help to be able to support their families so if minimum wage would rise that it would help many people get out of government