Minimum wage

Reducing worker’s hours, due to an increase in minimum wage, affect employees who work lower end jobs. If the unemployment rate increases, the possibility of getting a job can be slim because of everyone else looking to get hired. If there are not enough jobs, people with a higher education will be attracted to lower end jobs and will surpass those who typically work the lower end jobs (Reisman). If two applicants apply for the same lower end job, one with a higher education than the other, the…

The Minimum Wage need to be Raise Rashed Rahman Lonestar college This paper is presented for English-1301, by Professor Vanessa Ballmer The Minimum Wage need to be Raise Many problems and challenges exist in the world that we face in our everyday lives. We always try to solve those problems and make our lives easier and happy. Now- a-days, minimum wage a big problem for low-income family. Some low-income family members are running to their job to support their family and to get a…

little earning. That is why it will be hugely beneficial for the women in this country especially the lowest paid ones. Even though, only lowest 10 percent will have increased income if minimum wage is raised, over 30% of the lowest paid women will have more income if that happens (Belman and Wolfson 404). Minimum wage is also associated with health. The more money someone have, the easier it is to stay healthy. Healthy foods are normally the expensive foods. Poor people can’t even take care of…

In the United States of America, every state has its own minimum wage law. The federal minimum wage law for every state is $7.25 an hour. From time to time, states will reevaluate their minimum wage. Some states may go higher and other will remain constant. Many hard working people are unable to survive at their states minimum wage. For several reasons the minimum wage for all states should be raised. The minimum wage law exists to protect Americans against unfair pay rates. If the rate they…

frustrated and storm back inside to fix the problem. This happens quite frequently, maybe not to everyone, but regardless it happens too much. A majority of minimum wage jobs do not require many skills, and in return the hourly pay is smaller and not as attractive. According to the United States Department of Labor, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour and this obtained under the “Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)” this rate has been effective since July 24th of 2009. States including: D.C.,…

first instituted the idea of a minimum wage in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act, there has been debate about it. It started at merely twenty five cents, and was established to ensure that Americans were being paid fairly for their hard work. The minimum wage has since risen to seven dollars and twenty five cents per hour. But, some say that still isn’t enough. Inflation has changed the true amount that workers are being paid. The buying power of the minimum wage reached its peak in…

this article, is regarding the current minimum wage. Policymakers have been approached with widespread discontent with the federal minimum wage by minimum wage earners who are wanting it to be increased so they can better their current economic situation. In the government eye, any increases in the minimum wage are to essentially help fix the high percentages of poverty within the country and assist low-income families. As it stands, the current minimum wage of $7.25 is not enough to place an…

long term? Raising minimum wage is the governments way of not having people apply for welfare. There are so my factors to raising minimum wage and seemingly the government is trying to cover those factors but as the years go on not all “acts” will stick and follow through. Minimum wage is not a career income and if the acts do last, fifteen dollars gives off the idea of not having an education all right to go by to the teenagers and young adults and that living off minimum wage is satisfactory.…

is what Americans were protesting about a few years back. Now minimum wage has boosted up to $10.50 an hour, in selected establishments. I worked in McDonald’s for four years and Americans were right, you couldn’t live off of the previous minimum wage. The real question is, should you have to live off of $7.25 an hour? McDonald’s is a starting job, not a career, unless you try to pursue a manager/supervisor position. With minimum wage shooting up to $10.50 an hour more problems are arising such…

adequate housing would be to increase minimum wage to a living wage. With the ability to afford a basic living, parents/guardians are able to provide their children with the substantial support they need to thrive. Consequently, financial stability will dramatically decrease the number of maltreatment cases for a great sum of people, but more specifically, children of racialized, single mothers. When looking back at the statistics of people dependant on minimum wage, it becomes clear that…