Intro:
-Going over 3 points
-Brief history of minimum wages
-Minimum Wage benefits and arguments in favor of raising it
-Minimum Wage Cons and arguments of those who oppose it
Body:
1.Brief History of Minimum Wage
-As Levin-Waldman said in The Rhetorical Evolution of the Minimum Wage
-“The minimum wage was established in 1938, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act. That legislation set the minimum wage at 25 cents per hour, established a maximum workweek of 44 hours (before overtime wages kick in), and banned child labor.”
-But as Monica Heger said in Scholastic Math Magazine
-“Initially conceived of as a living wage during the late nineteenth century—a wage sufficient to maintain a basic level of subsistence—it later was seen as a family wage, as that which would” …show more content…
In fact, 88 percent of those who would benefit from a federal minimum wage increase are age 20 or older, and 55 percent are women.”
-Help to alleviate poverty by increasing the total income of less fortunate families
-By raising minimum wages it will give working families a feeling that they deserve what they earn, and in this day and age people are of the understanding that the harder you work, the more you earn
-As college students who are aspiring to increase our the overall level of our “skill sets”, we are not in the position in our careers to oppose raising a minimum wage due to the fact that we simply do not possess the required skills of higher earning jobs, yet.
3. Cons and Those who oppose:
-By raising the minimum wage you are completely going against the entire purpose of it – supposed to be a starting point in your career, but instead by raising it would encourage the lower class to become complaisant with their skill set and continue to do their lower tier
-Going over 3 points
-Brief history of minimum wages
-Minimum Wage benefits and arguments in favor of raising it
-Minimum Wage Cons and arguments of those who oppose it
Body:
1.Brief History of Minimum Wage
-As Levin-Waldman said in The Rhetorical Evolution of the Minimum Wage
-“The minimum wage was established in 1938, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act. That legislation set the minimum wage at 25 cents per hour, established a maximum workweek of 44 hours (before overtime wages kick in), and banned child labor.”
-But as Monica Heger said in Scholastic Math Magazine
-“Initially conceived of as a living wage during the late nineteenth century—a wage sufficient to maintain a basic level of subsistence—it later was seen as a family wage, as that which would” …show more content…
In fact, 88 percent of those who would benefit from a federal minimum wage increase are age 20 or older, and 55 percent are women.”
-Help to alleviate poverty by increasing the total income of less fortunate families
-By raising minimum wages it will give working families a feeling that they deserve what they earn, and in this day and age people are of the understanding that the harder you work, the more you earn
-As college students who are aspiring to increase our the overall level of our “skill sets”, we are not in the position in our careers to oppose raising a minimum wage due to the fact that we simply do not possess the required skills of higher earning jobs, yet.
3. Cons and Those who oppose:
-By raising the minimum wage you are completely going against the entire purpose of it – supposed to be a starting point in your career, but instead by raising it would encourage the lower class to become complaisant with their skill set and continue to do their lower tier