Increasing Minimum Wage Increase

Raising the minimum wage is a debate now argued on street corners, in corporate boardrooms, and even in the courtrooms of America. The financial predicament of the low to middle class wage earner needs to supersede the conservative thinkers who control Congress. America’s lowest paid hourly workers deserve to earn a decent living. Increasing the minimum wage will offer them that chance. An increase in the hourly minimum wage will give workers more income to support their families.

Andrew Dugan, explaining a Gallop poll, indicates that an increased minimum wage would have a sizable impact on reducing public assistance programs throughout the nation (Dugan). Therefore, a minimum wage increase would decrease the national budget deficit by cutting the number of government assistance programs. Moreover, increasing the minimum wage would decrease the existing gap between the welfare values and work ethics values by limiting the current levels of benefits. The government needs to get smart, raise the minimum wage, and shrink the assistance rolls. The government’s intent for welfare and assistance was not designed to be a long-term support system. A living wage increase would move people away from dependency toward a self-sufficient …show more content…
“For too long we have read about the income inequality reaching its highest level since the Great Depression. The wages have stagnated for all but those at the very top, and equal access to opportunity, the pillar of American greatness, is disappearing before our eyes” (Johnson). Strengthening the minimum wage will help build a reasonable economic recovery and lessen financial inequality. Furthermore, businesses, communities, and the economy will see more spending from the result of a higher minimum wage. Raising the living wage can increase economic growth and activity, and hopefully reverse the trend of financial inequality for