Many citizens are affected by the minimum wage daily (Should the Federal). The minimum wage has been increased by congress 22 times since 1938 and was last updated to $7.25 on July 24. 2009 (Minimum Wage). Around 3.3% of workers in the United States get paid the minimum wage or lower (Background of). Increasing the federal minimum wage would lower poverty levels, decrease spending on government assistance, and productivity in jobs would increase. The amount of people in poverty would decrease as we increase the minimum wage. The poverty line in 2015 was $12,331 a year, which is only 20 percent below a full-time minimum wage worker earning $15,080 per year (Should the Federal). People can barely survive on minimum wage, it doesn’t fulfill
