Minimum Wage Should Be Increased

The Average meal cost is ten dollars which is just over one hour of work for a single meal. The minimum wage currently is $8.25 an hour. A person would have to work two hours just to get one meal. Three meals a day would cost thirty dollars or four hours of work. Ten Dollars for a person to eat a single meal. For a family of four one meal would be forty dollars, which equals to five plus hours of work. This does not include bills such as rent or a car payment. Raising the minimum wage would be a helpful change in the U.S for its citizens. The United States should raise the minimum wage because poverty will decrease and sales will increase.
The United States should raise minimum wage because poverty will decrease. Minimum wage has not been increasing with the increasing prices …show more content…
Nick Hanaure an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in Seattle says “If minimum wage had tracked productivity gains since 1986 it would be $21.70” (Hanauer 1). If minimum wage changed with today’s economy, then today’s minimum wage would be almost three times what todays is. Today’s Minimum wage cannot compete with the prices which come with an expensive economy where people live in today. Along with poverty (many times) comes violence. Peter Moskos and associate professor in the department of law and police science and John Jay college of Criminal Justice says “Like robbing banks because that is where the money is” (Moskos 1). In many poverty stricken towns some people have referred to robbing banks, stores, and people. Poverty can cause people to act reckless such as robbing banks, stores, and people, but if the minimum wage goes up then amount of violence will go down. Immigrant’s legal and illegal work for less. Steven A. Camarota the director of