Regarding The Wall Street Journal, “Push for $15 Minimum Wage Heats up” 2016, authors Eric Morath, Erica Olden, and Alejandro Lazo, explain how California and New York strive to be the first states to raise minimum wage to $15. “We want to pay people a wage that allows them to lead their life with dignity,” families should be able to be proud of the work they do and how much they get paid for it, people should be payed $15 an hour. The minimum wage today is $7.25 per hour, which in all fairness, isn’t much. Throughout the years, minimum wage has changed several times. When the federal minimum wage first became law in 1938, it was 25 cents. Every family has different necessities that are in need to be taken care of. Some families struggle to pay off bills, have gas in their car or have groceries they need to buy …show more content…
Increasing the minimum wage will help out many families. Because my parents are separated, my mom alone, has to worry about paying everything in time and makes sure we have the supplies, clothes, and food that we need. She works nine hours a day and sometimes overtime in the weekend, so my brother and I don’t get to see her as much as we would like to. “But we want to do it in a way that stimulates the economy and certainly doesn’t hinder the economy,” the minimum wage should be increased, but not so much that it creates difficulties for the economy but it will also reduce poverty. Resulting in increasing the minimum wage, there would be improvements in productivity and economic growth. “The push by two of the nation’s four most populous states will widen a debate about the benefits and risks of elevated minimum wages…” California and New York want to raise the minimum wage first than all the other states. Being the two states with the most population, people will have a lot to say. They will either be for or against raising the minimum