Dalton Bishop
Ms. Teague
English 4
19th September 2016
Minimum Wage
The First federal minimum wage was 25 cents and now all the way up to 7.25 an hour! So the question is should it be raised to 10 an hour or just more than 7.25? There're all sorts of why we should and why we shouldn't and how society sees it. Raising minimum wage has been depicted in modern media because of normally when wage goes up the price of living goes up to, but raising the wage would help people with their wants and needs. There're all sorts of reasons why and why not to raise the wage. That's the background of minimum wage so let's see what the cause and effect would be on raising the minimum wage and how society sees raising the wage! What's the cause of why society would want it raised and what would be the effect if it did get raised?
Basically, a minimum wage is the lowest a company can legally pay his or her employees, You can get paid more you just can't get paid less than minimum wage. So the minimum wage was signed into the act on June 25th, 1938 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The first ever minimum wage was .25 cents an hour, Today the minimum wage is 7.25 but back then there wage compared to today would be about 4 dollars an hour. About 70 million workers are paid an average hourly wage at the age of 16 or older and of that 70 million
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The minimum wage earner typically brings in half of their family's income. If it did happen to get raised congress could make benefits for low-wage workers. People till this day are having issues with insurance, health care and even housing there family. According to the Heather Boushey, she says raising the minimum wage would have positive effects on the economy and lowering the poverty rate. Economic research points to the conclusion that a higher minimum wage does not cause greater unemployment, it addresses the problem pretty well and could possibly boost the