Sheila Ortiz
Coach Cain
English II
26 May 2016
Minimum Wage
America is known as the country of opportunity. Many immigrants come over from all over the world looking for a fresh start, looking for a place where they can be happy and succeed. But how will they be happy when they can barely afford to maintain themselves? What if they have a family to support? Many people here have to have multiple jobs in order to afford food and a place to live. How will they have time to spend time with their family if the have many jobs? And what if they’re a single parent? America’s poverty percentage is really high, and it shouldn’t. You’d think with being a first world country we wouldn’t have many people on the streets and poor home conditions. Fortunately, for us, we can change that. All we need to do is raise the minimum wage so that these people suffering in poverty can get paid more. With higher minimum wage, we would have fewer people in poverty. Not only that, parents can spend more time with their children. Unfortunately, there are people against raising the minimum wage. They claim that it will decrease the number
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These corporations are just looking out for themselves. All they want is to make more and more money even though they already have more than enough. For example CEOs in 1980 made as much as 97 minimum wage workers. But it gets worse as the years go by. In 1997, the average CEO made as much as 728 minimum wage workers. And in 2007, as much as 1,131 minimum wage workers. “It is immoral that some are paid so little that their children go without necessities- while others are paid so much their grandchildren will live in luxury without having to work at all…” (Sklar,