The federal minimum wage is currently static at 7.25 an hour. The debate over whether to increase or decrease wages has been ongoing for nearly a century. Each generation brings with it it’s own costs. However, the minimum wage has always been increased to meet the modern day living expenses, but in the year 2016 this is not the case. I, myself have worked several minimum wage jobs ranging from carhop to hostess. Luckily I have parents who assist me in paying my bills and living expenses, however if I were a few years older this would not be the case. It is obvious to me than I would not be able to afford basic survival costs with how much I earn, despite working full time. For those who are not high school students’ living on the current minimum wage is nearly impossible.
In Jenny Jarvie’s “Living on the Edge, Full Time”, she discusses the conditions under which minimum wage workers are being forced to live in. She claims “Many who earn 7.25 an hour work long days, cobbling multiple jobs together to get by. Others scramble to amass enough hours to keep up with basic household bills, surviving only with a patchwork of help from family or government subsidies”. She also goes on to point out how difficult it is for minimum …show more content…
College students who are employed on campus are beginning to form unions and strategize to achieve higher wages at their universities. In Danielle Gabriel and Lydia Depillis’s article “Students Demand Higher Pay for Jobs on Campus” they explore this exact issue. They say that students don’t demand more money for irrelevant purposes such as partying or shopping. Their research concludes that “86% of on-campus college workers demand more pay so they can work less and study more”. Between working full time and going to classes full time, many students claim to be too exhausted by the time they go home to study or do any type of extra-curricular
In Jenny Jarvie’s “Living on the Edge, Full Time”, she discusses the conditions under which minimum wage workers are being forced to live in. She claims “Many who earn 7.25 an hour work long days, cobbling multiple jobs together to get by. Others scramble to amass enough hours to keep up with basic household bills, surviving only with a patchwork of help from family or government subsidies”. She also goes on to point out how difficult it is for minimum …show more content…
College students who are employed on campus are beginning to form unions and strategize to achieve higher wages at their universities. In Danielle Gabriel and Lydia Depillis’s article “Students Demand Higher Pay for Jobs on Campus” they explore this exact issue. They say that students don’t demand more money for irrelevant purposes such as partying or shopping. Their research concludes that “86% of on-campus college workers demand more pay so they can work less and study more”. Between working full time and going to classes full time, many students claim to be too exhausted by the time they go home to study or do any type of extra-curricular