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Persuasive Essay On Minimum Wage

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Minimum Wage
Minimum wage jobs are meant to be an incentive for new workers to want to better themselves in their work environment. It was not made to be a career of being paid the federal wage of $7.25 an hour. Many workers today are protesting for the “right” to be paid $15 an hour at fast food restaurants such as McDonalds. These workers have started a campaign called “Fight for $15” (it is mainly supported via social media such as Facebook and Twitter using the seemingly appropriate handle of #Fightfor15) to hopefully persuade government officials into overpaying them for flipping burgers and frying fries. Taxpayers and teenage workers are supposed to be the most affected by any sort of fluctuation in minimum wage. The goal of the minimum wage law is “not to raise of lower unemployment… its …show more content…

Supposedly this often forces teens into welfare programs that primarily lead to long-term dependence on the government which is very costly to nationwide workers (Ginn, “2016”). Would “Fight for $15” help or hurt the people of America?
Former Secretary of State and 2016 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has spoken many times on the somewhat controversial topic of minimum wage such as the Fight for $15 conference in June 2016. As a U.S Senator, Clinton supported raising the federal minimum wage in 2007 and then again she supported raising it in May of 2014. However, now Clinton refuses to comment on whether she truly supports the $15 an hour minimum wage, or when she would like to see the minimum wage hike imposed (Nader, “Where”). Along with Clinton, Senator Bernie Sanders and former governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley support raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020. Many of the Democratic candidates (such as Sanders and O’Malley) support hiking the wage up yet they cannot seem to agree by how much and on what amount of time. Raising

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