Minimum Wage and Fifteen Dollars Minimum wage is a quite interesting topic on how it should be raised but not raised to much to where it’s to the point where someone flipping burgers gets paid more than someone that defends the person flipping burgers. Now it days there's more people working two minimum wage jobs to keep above the poverty line and keep a low standard of living. The idea of changing minimum wage to 8-9 dollars an hour is reasonable but when individuals ‘Fight for $15’ should be the fight for $8-9 because: creates unemployment, encourages teens to drop out, and hurts the poor.
Creates Unemployment When the minimum wage reaches a peak of $15 it would raise the demand for jobs, creating less availability for jobs. In the article “Title,” author Joe Henderson states, “In a free labor market, wage rates reflect the willingness of workers to work (supply) and the willingness of employers to hire them (demand)” (Henderson). The law of supply and demand states that when there is more of something the less it’s demanded and that goes for anything like food, cars, and even labor, and if the minimum wage went up to fifteen dollars an hour,
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When a teen goes to college they usually go to do something harder for money but when you can go flip burgers and make the same amount it just makes sense. “With fewer jobs to go around and a greater number of dropouts, some newer dropouts take jobs from the less-educated and lower-productivity teens who had already left school” ( Henderson). It shows when the minimum wage went up the last time to what it is now, $7.25, instead of the number of high school students working going down it actually went up leading to more students to drop out and pursue careers in burger flipping and watering instead a career of something they like to do that needs college