Minimum Wage Wars
Many people in our society work for minimum wage pay and the working class wants to raise that, so people working minimum wage can have better lives. In the editorial “Statewide $15 minimum wage would dump many low-wage workers onto welfare” by The Orange County Register, the author argues that if minimum wage is increased people will go on welfare. They claim that raising minimum wage will hurt the american economy rather than help it. In the editorial “You Deserve a Raise Today. Interest Rates Don’t.” by The New York Times the author argues the opposite, they claim minimum wage will help people boost productivity and help raise the living standards of most americans. Both of the articles have well thought out claims and …show more content…
Interest Rates Don’t.” has better execution in delivering the data,but commentary done in The Orange County Register editorial is better. They explain their point and use fact to back it up. When they compare two different points in our history one point is in the 1970’s the minimum wage increased the productive of works and in the 2000’s the minimum wage only grew a little leading the productivity to grew a little as well compared to the 1970’s data. “Since the early 1970s, median pay has risen by only 8.7 percent, after adjusting for inflation, while productivity has grown by 72 percent. Since 2000, the gap has become even bigger, with pay up only 1.8 percent, despite productivity growth of 22 percent.” The author in the New York Times effectively uses statistical facts to support his argument but does not show good commentary. Although The New York Times editorial has better execution in delivering its statistic The Orange County Register editorial has better commentary when it uses data. When the author of Orange County Register editorial talks about how Los Angeles is raising its minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour the author commentates well to explain the statistic. The authors says, “ Boosting the minimum wage would continue and intensify the cycle of pain by further …show more content…
In the Orange County editorial the author appeals to ethos when the author talks about how poverty stricken California is the author use the credibility when the author clearly states in his editorial where the author received his information. The author show that the information was from U.S. Census department as a statistic in quote “Citing a U.S. Census Department study, the petition for the initiative says, “Almost one-quarter of California residents live in poverty.” ”. This shows how The Orange County Register effectively appealed to ethos. While the The New York Times does not clearly state where the author found the information so we do not know if it is as credible as the Orange county editorial where the author clearly stated where the author found the information.
Some people might say that adding too much pathos and sarcasm to an editorial will make the editorial less reliable but in this situation. Adding just the right amount of pathos, sarcasm and commentary made The Orange County Register editorial more convincing than The New York TImes editorial. Since the New York Times editorial was impacted with pure statistics it caused the article to be less convincing to the reader because it had no emotion which lead the reader to lose interest to the
Many people in our society work for minimum wage pay and the working class wants to raise that, so people working minimum wage can have better lives. In the editorial “Statewide $15 minimum wage would dump many low-wage workers onto welfare” by The Orange County Register, the author argues that if minimum wage is increased people will go on welfare. They claim that raising minimum wage will hurt the american economy rather than help it. In the editorial “You Deserve a Raise Today. Interest Rates Don’t.” by The New York Times the author argues the opposite, they claim minimum wage will help people boost productivity and help raise the living standards of most americans. Both of the articles have well thought out claims and …show more content…
Interest Rates Don’t.” has better execution in delivering the data,but commentary done in The Orange County Register editorial is better. They explain their point and use fact to back it up. When they compare two different points in our history one point is in the 1970’s the minimum wage increased the productive of works and in the 2000’s the minimum wage only grew a little leading the productivity to grew a little as well compared to the 1970’s data. “Since the early 1970s, median pay has risen by only 8.7 percent, after adjusting for inflation, while productivity has grown by 72 percent. Since 2000, the gap has become even bigger, with pay up only 1.8 percent, despite productivity growth of 22 percent.” The author in the New York Times effectively uses statistical facts to support his argument but does not show good commentary. Although The New York Times editorial has better execution in delivering its statistic The Orange County Register editorial has better commentary when it uses data. When the author of Orange County Register editorial talks about how Los Angeles is raising its minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour the author commentates well to explain the statistic. The authors says, “ Boosting the minimum wage would continue and intensify the cycle of pain by further …show more content…
In the Orange County editorial the author appeals to ethos when the author talks about how poverty stricken California is the author use the credibility when the author clearly states in his editorial where the author received his information. The author show that the information was from U.S. Census department as a statistic in quote “Citing a U.S. Census Department study, the petition for the initiative says, “Almost one-quarter of California residents live in poverty.” ”. This shows how The Orange County Register effectively appealed to ethos. While the The New York Times does not clearly state where the author found the information so we do not know if it is as credible as the Orange county editorial where the author clearly stated where the author found the information.
Some people might say that adding too much pathos and sarcasm to an editorial will make the editorial less reliable but in this situation. Adding just the right amount of pathos, sarcasm and commentary made The Orange County Register editorial more convincing than The New York TImes editorial. Since the New York Times editorial was impacted with pure statistics it caused the article to be less convincing to the reader because it had no emotion which lead the reader to lose interest to the