Raising Minimum Wage Research Paper

Raising Minimum-Wage Will Hurt the Middle-Class When people have problems pertaining to someone or something needing something in order to resolve the issue they usually fix the problem by creating a plan to give it to them; and it usually works. For example: if a baby is crying, they will stop once they are fed; couples who are divorcing reconcile their major disagreements once both sides get what they want; parents will stop nagging a child once they clean their room. In respect of this, the way to fix the problem of American Citizens asking to raise minimum wage in America is to raise it right? Wrong!, changing the minimum wage may seem like the solution to help the minimum-wage workers but it won’t; so much so that it will actually cause …show more content…
Most children are taught at an adolescent age that they must go to school to gain the opportunity to have a better life. A better life in the eyes of most is the equivalent to having a lot of money and being able to use it to live. When parents are providing the essential needs for a working-age teen the money obtained from a job gives a false sense of successfulness even at the current minimum wage amount. Most non-skilled jobs offer $7.25 to their workers but if the minimum wage is raised the need for school in the minds of many high school students will become obsolete. Dr. Henderson, professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School, states “With fewer jobs to go around and a greater number of dropouts, some newer dropouts take jobs from the less-educated and lower-productivity teens who had already left school” (Henderson, “Minimum Wage Will Not Reduce Poverty”). Minimum wage increases makes intro-jobs seem like career goals and undermine the want to finish high school and especially college, which will continue the cycle of poverty; because the fast food job that seemed so strenuous for little pay begins to look like a paycheck that is worth the