Essay Against Minimum Wage

Luke nethery DUAL CREDIT Minimum wage Minimum wage has been a debate in this country cents labor has been established. The current minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Some Americans think that that is too low and cannot support a large family. Which is very true just think about how should a family buy all there necessities with such little money. Minimum wage is even become a big deal in the recent presidential race, presidents are saying that that should be raised to $15 an hour and some saying $12 an hour. Many people have quit their job to push for a $15 an hour minimum wage. Over 3 million US workers make minimum-wage. The state of Texas over 5.7% of people …show more content…
Many work a second job at night and others have spouses that have to work. Most minimum-wage workers tend to marry people with similar backgrounds, leaving both to have jobs as janitors, healthy aids, and retail workers that don’t raise them into the middle class. Many fast food workers are demanding $15 per hour and recently many workers walked off their job to show their serious. Consequence of minimum-wage laws is that people particularly the young inexperienced end up out of work and of course are therefore unable to gain work experience in earn higher wages in the future. A family with two kids would have to work 3.3 full-time minimum-wage jobs to make ends me that’s 132 hours a week which doesn’t make sense which proves that the minimum-wage laws are immoral. In 1968 the minimum wage is $7.92 per hour, since then worker productivity went up but wages went down. Productivity grew 4.2% between 1968 and 2000 but hourly wages for average worker still went down 3%. If wages had kept with the rising productivity since 1968 the average hourly wage would’ve been $24.56 in 2000. For