According to United States Department of Labor,“The typical minimum wage worker is not a high school student earning weekend pocket money. In fact, 89 percent of those who would benefit from a federal minimum wage increase to $12 per hour are age 20 or older, and 56 percent are women.” Minimum wage needs to be increased as it will benefit the country as a whole. The United States legislative branch can withdraw money from welfare programs thus, bettering the economy, the employees of a corporation, as well as the company. Without an increase in minimum wage, trade will be affected, causing a decline in supply and demand, a lack of financial support for employees and their families, and cause a lower profit for corporations.
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Before she was a fast food worker, she was a nurse in the Dominican Republic who lost her marriage and left her job after the 2003 crisis in the area and headed to the United States where she began working for McDonald’s. Everything was going great as she was making enough money to support her family and live the American Dream, but that soon came crashing down as her lawyer exploited her vulnerability. She then began seeing the injustice among the fast food industry. Tapia discusses a time when she had a fever, yet her manager left her standing for hours, “I just couldn’t stand up anymore, and I went home. She suspended me for a week for that. She’s gone now, but she was abusive” (Tapia 2014). Among the testimony of Tapia, there was a study done to prove the insufficient means of minimum wage. This study was conducted by Amy Livingston, author of article “Living on
Minimum Wage-Is it Possible? (Live the Wage Challenge)”. In her article Livingston argues that minimum wage is not enough to survive. Through the experiment of having people live on limited means she proves her theory. An individual in the challenge went off his budget of seventy-seven dollars when having to pay a forty dollar fee for a doctor’s appointment and twenty-five dollars when having to purchase …show more content…
In her article “America has a cheap labor problem," Munson argues that if minimum wage were to be increased it would cause a loss of economic gain for the United States. In one point of her article Munson states, “One cannot hope to have both great economic success and extremely high wages without other miraculous factors like cheap energy, land, capital, and low wages. It is, of course, highly unfortunate if jobs do leave America, but it’s just basic economics-not a personal vendetta (Munson 2014). According to Munson, an individual cannot wish for monetary gain and a higher pay for that will ruin and destroy the
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Minimum …show more content…
Before she was a fast food worker, she was a nurse in the Dominican Republic who lost her marriage and left her job after the 2003 crisis in the area and headed to the United States where she began working for McDonald’s. Everything was going great as she was making enough money to support her family and live the American Dream, but that soon came crashing down as her lawyer exploited her vulnerability. She then began seeing the injustice among the fast food industry. Tapia discusses a time when she had a fever, yet her manager left her standing for hours, “I just couldn’t stand up anymore, and I went home. She suspended me for a week for that. She’s gone now, but she was abusive” (Tapia 2014). Among the testimony of Tapia, there was a study done to prove the insufficient means of minimum wage. This study was conducted by Amy Livingston, author of article “Living on
Minimum Wage-Is it Possible? (Live the Wage Challenge)”. In her article Livingston argues that minimum wage is not enough to survive. Through the experiment of having people live on limited means she proves her theory. An individual in the challenge went off his budget of seventy-seven dollars when having to pay a forty dollar fee for a doctor’s appointment and twenty-five dollars when having to purchase …show more content…
In her article “America has a cheap labor problem," Munson argues that if minimum wage were to be increased it would cause a loss of economic gain for the United States. In one point of her article Munson states, “One cannot hope to have both great economic success and extremely high wages without other miraculous factors like cheap energy, land, capital, and low wages. It is, of course, highly unfortunate if jobs do leave America, but it’s just basic economics-not a personal vendetta (Munson 2014). According to Munson, an individual cannot wish for monetary gain and a higher pay for that will ruin and destroy the