What is Minimum Wage and why we need to increase it in Texas? Minimum wage by definition is the lowest wage permitted by law to be paid to any worker or employed person. A Quote by Jon Corzine he said, “No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.” Here in Texas, the standard set minimum wage is set at $7.25 per hour and it was last increased on February 24, 2015. We need to look at the average hours a typical American Texan work and how much pay they receive that is also including the ratio that men versus women pay rate or salary, we need to take a look at the expenses that a typical American Texan have to pay on a monthly and yearly basis’s, and finally
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Researchers observed approximately 274 people at the same company. Looking at the test subjects approximately 53 percent of the people that were observed was female and the other 47 percent were male. According to the University of Texas they did a study between the equality pay issue and women make 22 percent less compared to the 78 percent that men made on their salary. A study according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics men that earned 45,820 dollars if compared to a woman they made only 36,032 dollars. Looking at those two issues that most of the income comes out of women pocket but if they don’t have equality pay then how would they be able to afford their daily expenses mostly if they don’t have an education. They should raise the minimum wage and set equality between women and a man so that we would both benefit raising a family or even ourselves. Living on minimum wage more than likely we wouldn’t be able to survive, we all work hard but looking at the statistics if women work harder they should be able to receive the same or at least a little more because they prove that they have what it takes to get them where they are …show more content…
Looking at all of that cost its hard for a single parent living with their child to survive living on minimum wage in Fort Worth. If you really want affordable you would have to look at the bad neighborhood to live in because it’s really hard to find good apartments that are cost efficient and is safe. Neighborhoods in an area that is good and very costly usually tend to have a better education and have a high successful rate of graduating high school and go beyond their education levels; Children that doesn’t have a good education and have a really poor living situation tend to not have everything they need and their drop out rates are beyond the roof. Many families in the certain area struggle to survive day-by-day we in society can’t actually see how they are doing each day because they don’t try to put it out there. Minimum wage pays a big role in this issue because some parents aren’t educated, back then a long time ago, money was a big priority in every single family. Getting by was the main issue because many people were underpaid because of their race or maybe even their color of their skin but minimum wage has wiped that
Researchers observed approximately 274 people at the same company. Looking at the test subjects approximately 53 percent of the people that were observed was female and the other 47 percent were male. According to the University of Texas they did a study between the equality pay issue and women make 22 percent less compared to the 78 percent that men made on their salary. A study according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics men that earned 45,820 dollars if compared to a woman they made only 36,032 dollars. Looking at those two issues that most of the income comes out of women pocket but if they don’t have equality pay then how would they be able to afford their daily expenses mostly if they don’t have an education. They should raise the minimum wage and set equality between women and a man so that we would both benefit raising a family or even ourselves. Living on minimum wage more than likely we wouldn’t be able to survive, we all work hard but looking at the statistics if women work harder they should be able to receive the same or at least a little more because they prove that they have what it takes to get them where they are …show more content…
Looking at all of that cost its hard for a single parent living with their child to survive living on minimum wage in Fort Worth. If you really want affordable you would have to look at the bad neighborhood to live in because it’s really hard to find good apartments that are cost efficient and is safe. Neighborhoods in an area that is good and very costly usually tend to have a better education and have a high successful rate of graduating high school and go beyond their education levels; Children that doesn’t have a good education and have a really poor living situation tend to not have everything they need and their drop out rates are beyond the roof. Many families in the certain area struggle to survive day-by-day we in society can’t actually see how they are doing each day because they don’t try to put it out there. Minimum wage pays a big role in this issue because some parents aren’t educated, back then a long time ago, money was a big priority in every single family. Getting by was the main issue because many people were underpaid because of their race or maybe even their color of their skin but minimum wage has wiped that