Minimum wage

Minimum Wage Good or Bad Since the beginning of its introduction, minimum wage has been a problem for many Americans and has caused countless numbers of outrage. The idea that there should be a base amount that people get paid for working certain hours was followed by many cities until minimum wage was first established for the United States in 1938, called the fair labor standard act. It was first put at $0.25 which is about $4.23 US dollars in 2015. Ever since its establishment it has been…

Minimum Wage A larger number of the U.S. population thinks that raising the minimum wage will make a major difference in poverty levels and the quality of life for the unskilled workers. The perception is incorrect of the way minimum wage works. Raising the minimum wage will not benefit people because it creates unemployment, negatively affects the poor, makes goods and services more expensive, and majorly effect small businesses; and when considering raising the minimum wage, we must also…

With a presidential election under way, the topic of Federal Minimum Wage(FMW) is recieving an increase in attention and controversy. Many Americans find themselves wondering if the FMW should remain at seven dollars and twenty-five cents per hour. Although raising the FMW seems like the moral thing to do, it has numerous devastating effects on the economy and low-skilled workers. By raising FMW, employers may have no other choice than to pay their workers much more than what their labor is…

The Social Problem Minimum wage was first created in 1938 during the Great Depression under Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) presidency. Minimum wage started off as $0.25 an hour and has been changed for a total of 22 times by the year 2009. Initially, minimum was introduced to cover women and minors, due to the fact that white men were able to rely on the union as a safety net and that they earned higher wages (Kaufman, 2012). Currently in Louisiana minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Although the…

The minimum wage has been a large debate in the past and is becoming an even more prominently discussed subject more recently. Some call for the raise to be ten dollars while other want the minimum wage to be up to fifteen dollars. Recent presidential candidates have even stated their opinions on the issue. Bernie Sanders believes there should be a national rate of fifteen dollars per hour. Hilary Clinton believes in a twelve dollar minimum wage. Donald Trump believes it should increase but…

to Congress in the State of the Union Address that the federal minimum wage should be raised from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour. He also remarked that “even with the tax relief we have been put in place, in which a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line….that’s wrong.”. “According to a poll taken earlier this year by the Pew Research Center, Americans are in favor of increasing the minimum wage from its current level by a wide margin (71% to 26%).” I…

coming in, and I will be forced to pay for my necessities and luxuries out of what I already have, or get another job in college, where I will have even less time. With that in mind, I do believe that a minimum wage hike should be instituted, since what is currently being paid is not a living wage for full time workers, and would be a nice incentive for those unable to work full time. Unfortunately, as with all social wellbeing programs, there are pros and cons to it.…

Should the U.S. increase minimum wage? Are you tired of just making minimum wage and would like to make more than that? Do you want to be able to make enough money that you can pay bills and also have a little extra spending money to go out and have a little fun? Well step up and try to make a change and say if you think the U.S., should increase minimum wage so you can have that opportunity to go out and have fun on those Friday nights that you’ve always dreamed about. If you think that you…

make the minimum wages to raise rapidly? People that have a good education and experiences could help them to have a higher entry-level for a stable job position. The gap between the rich and poor are aggressively increasing which that fact that price of property is increasing yearly. Obviously, people who are “stakeholder” in large corporation companies would want a raise in the cost of employee wages, if the minimum wages finance is also to be raised. There is a source stated that the minimum…

Barack Obama once said, ”If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than 15,000 a year, go try it. If not, vote to give millions of the hardest-working people in America a raise.” Imagine you are a worker earning the minimum wage every hour. You have a spouse and a young child. Do you think you could support them on less than 15,000 a year? Sadly though, millions of Americans are facing this situation. For instance, take Jose Castro’s case. He lives in Orlando…