Federal Minimum Wage Case Study

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Should Waffle Now servers be paid higher federal minimum wage? Well I feel it should for two reasons. One is the price of living is going up every year, so how are the employees going to pay bills if their job not paying enough? Second reason is according to the passage the servers have to pay income tax off the tips the constumers give, so their losing even more money!

The price of living is starting to increase more and more as the years go by. Job payments isn't going up so there's no way the workers are going to be able to pay for their bills if there's not increase in payment. There's lots of solutions to be able to increase payment if there's lot of ways to increase the cost of living. Employees deserve to atleast get a raise or,

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