The minimum wage should raised “ As Haitian factory owners and U.S corporation profit from the low wages, Haitian workers’ struggle everyday just to feed themselves and their families. The typical diet for minimum wage workers consists largely of rice and cornmeal and beans; vegetables are rare and meat is an unheard of luxury. A minimum wage workers working 8 hours per day. In the other words, a full time minimum salary provides less than 60% of a family’s basic needs ( Verhoogen, par.26).”It is obvious that Haitian factory is a rich company but they just pay a litter to workers. The minimum wage is closely related to quality of workers’ lives. Those labors must work for a long time, but they are still facing many problems
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A junior student Irby said “Raising the minimum wage is a great idea! It gives People who don’t have high paying jobs a chance ("Should the minimum wage be raised?", par.10).” A sophomore student Ray at SLJ also said “They give a lot money to basketball players. It should go to people who actually work hard (par.11).” Although those two students didn’t consider too much of society’s problems, their opinions are reasonable. Workers who without skills and knowledge that they don’t have many changes to look for a better job and spend extra time on studying. They maybe need to work for their families. Likewise, they can’t do anything with risks so raising wage probably is only change to reduce their living pressure and make a greater well being. Raising the minimum wage not only good for poor worker, but also has some benefit for part time work students. There are some reasons that why students want to find part time works. Another sophomore student, Garfield believes that raise the minimum wage would give teens an incentive to start work earlier(par.13). Another student disagrees that some people say the teens only waste money that they earn on luxuries. In his views, all the students he knew who have part time jobs, save most of their money for college. Some even use their earnings to …show more content…
For example, when their children have no enough money to eat delicious food like other children and their parents also will feel sad about that. The author indicates raising the minimum wage combat poverty, hence, throughout the investigation of the author that raising the minimum wage could reduce public assistance expenditures per year and the government can use this money to help more people in need(Solis, par.5). This can let more and more families away from the poverty when workers who working full time have enough money to buy necessities, government can use the limited money to help poor people who can not work normally. At the same time, the author point out that raising the minimum wage promote the economic growth then reduce the poverty rate(par.6). When the wage increase, the purchasing power increase even though the author knew that many people worry about the minimum wage increase is a threat for many small companies but she disagree with this point so that she said if the minimum raised at the same time the minimum wage workers will immediately spend their increased income by buying basic needs for their families have a better living conditions(par.5-7). Along this line of the consideration raise the minimum wage can stimulate their local economy and will not influence the small businesses
A junior student Irby said “Raising the minimum wage is a great idea! It gives People who don’t have high paying jobs a chance ("Should the minimum wage be raised?", par.10).” A sophomore student Ray at SLJ also said “They give a lot money to basketball players. It should go to people who actually work hard (par.11).” Although those two students didn’t consider too much of society’s problems, their opinions are reasonable. Workers who without skills and knowledge that they don’t have many changes to look for a better job and spend extra time on studying. They maybe need to work for their families. Likewise, they can’t do anything with risks so raising wage probably is only change to reduce their living pressure and make a greater well being. Raising the minimum wage not only good for poor worker, but also has some benefit for part time work students. There are some reasons that why students want to find part time works. Another sophomore student, Garfield believes that raise the minimum wage would give teens an incentive to start work earlier(par.13). Another student disagrees that some people say the teens only waste money that they earn on luxuries. In his views, all the students he knew who have part time jobs, save most of their money for college. Some even use their earnings to …show more content…
For example, when their children have no enough money to eat delicious food like other children and their parents also will feel sad about that. The author indicates raising the minimum wage combat poverty, hence, throughout the investigation of the author that raising the minimum wage could reduce public assistance expenditures per year and the government can use this money to help more people in need(Solis, par.5). This can let more and more families away from the poverty when workers who working full time have enough money to buy necessities, government can use the limited money to help poor people who can not work normally. At the same time, the author point out that raising the minimum wage promote the economic growth then reduce the poverty rate(par.6). When the wage increase, the purchasing power increase even though the author knew that many people worry about the minimum wage increase is a threat for many small companies but she disagree with this point so that she said if the minimum raised at the same time the minimum wage workers will immediately spend their increased income by buying basic needs for their families have a better living conditions(par.5-7). Along this line of the consideration raise the minimum wage can stimulate their local economy and will not influence the small businesses