Minimum wage

Arizona recently passed a minimum wage law and it could affect many of the people in Arizona. This was one of the main props other than 205, which was medical marijuana, but the medical prop didn’t pass. The minimum wage prop 206 passed on November 8th, 2016, and it will increase the yearly minimum wage by 50 cents for two years then up one dollar. By 2020 it should be 12 dollars per hour for minimum wage. What will prop “206” actually do, (Pitts 1) Minimum wage shouldn’t be increased because…

Propose three ways to motivate the minimum wage service worker. Motivating minimum wage service worker can be a little trick because most employees are worried about the compensation. Compensation is plays a major role but motivation can be showing in other different ways. Try to make the work environment fun by having celebration for birthdays, work anniversaries and recognition of work performance. This can be encouraging because the employees see that you care about them even if you can not…

getting paid at a low wage. There have been issues on whether or not minors should get paid at the minimum wage like the majority of the adults do. Some jobs pay the minimum wage, in which minors were able to work at and getting paid at the minimum wage. In cases though, there are adults that don’t agree that minors should make the minimum wage because they have different insights about minors under the age of 18 as well some jobs don’t want minors to make the minimum wage. To conclude this, I…

Floor for Minimum Wage Pushes Economy into the Unknown” Franchesca Garlett Dr. Wenyi Shen Introduction into Macroeconomics 2103.61167 Due: November 1st, 2016 Analysis of Scheiber’s “Raising Floor for Minimum Wage Pushes Economy into the Unknown” The article, by Noam Scheiber, “Raising Floor for Minimum Wage Pushes Economy into the Unknown” explains a mostly political viewpoint, without actually explaining, in depth, the political situation that arises from raising the minimum wage from…

Raising the Minimum Wage in America Millions of American employees are working countless hours every week to earn inadequate wages that result in many families to live in poverty or depending on paycheck to paycheck. Bernie Sanders has the right approach when he quotes, “the current federal minimum wage is a starvation wage.” It is time for a change so the American population needs better wages, the American population should increase the minimum wage to benefit every American business and the…

An article written by Kim Krisberg called “Raising Minimum Wage Good for Public Health, Not Just Wallets: Advocates call for Federal Increase,” states a lot of clear information on why minimum wage should be raised to a higher amount and how it can effect a person’s health. The first thing that is stated in this article is how health really is impacted by the raise of pay for workers. This point on why minimum wage should be raised is a cause and effect situation, if the pay is higher then there…

The minimum wage policy will cause more negative effects on people. Some people argue that minimum wage policy increases workers' productivity since the higher wage makes people more willing to find jobs and stay at their job positions. However, it will also create dead weight loss and inefficiency. Based on the graph shown below, minimum wage is set above market equilibrium price, functioning as price floor. Since the current wage is higher, employers that are willing to hire workers at a lower…

Minimum Wage for Minimum Skills The war over minimum wage in America is roaring on. On one side, people argue that raising the minimum wage will help many escape poverty and maybe even provide more jobs. On the opposing side, people argue raising the minimum wage would only reach half of those who really need it and result in a major loss of jobs; therefore, it would be unsuccessful (Gray). Of these two sides, I agree with the latter. Through my research, I have found out that there is going to…

In Ira Knight’s speech, “Let’s Make the Minimum Wage a Living Wage”, he provides reasons to raise the minimum wage. In Janice Steele’s Huntington Post article, “Keep the Minimum Wage Where It is”, she states that increasing the minimum wage is not good for the economy and small businesses. In Ira Knight’s speech he gave more facts and evidence while Janice Steele’s article focused more on opinion. For that reason, Ira Knight’s speech has stronger support. To begin, Janice Steele’s article is…

Many debates on the impact that raising the federal minimum wage could possibly have on employment and the American economic system can be viewed on television today. Most of the arguments run along party lines with the yes vote on the Democratic side and the no vote on the Republican side of the aisle. Recently, on the Fox News channel, two people with differing opinions discussed the President’s desire to raise the minimum wage from $7.25/hour to $9 per hour. Mark Hannah and Tony Sayegh…