With today’s economic prices rising heavily, such as gas prices and groceries, perhaps, there is no where to find the money to buy what is needed. Minors are sometimes the one’s who work and bring the money home. A job could help teenagers get hands on experience for a future job. Teenagers go to college and need to pay their own tuition. With the money that is needed to get by day by day, it is surely a good idea to raise minimum wages and for minors under 18 to receive the same amount as other individuals. Therefore minimum wage for teenagers should be the same amount that it is for those who are older. Although it would not hurt large businesses, it would hurt small ones. In that case, minimum wage should only go into place for those businesses in which are bigger and more successful. Teenagers are ready to move out and they too need some money of their own to survive in the expensiveness that this world has. We go to school for about 8 hours a day to then go to our job which is about 4-5 hours, we work …show more content…
In the online article, “Minimum Wages Are Rising Across the Country. Should They Apply to Minors?”, Carson Vaughan states, “ Federal law in the U.S allows employers to pay workers under the age 20 a training wage as low as $4.25 an hour during their first 90 days of employment”(7). With this being said, many teenagers don’t want to go find a job for that of many reasons, the wage is not reasonable even though it is just practice. The minimum wage should be as high as what it would be to those over the age of 20. Senators say that we are lazy children that would never know what to do if the law of the increasing wage would be higher than what it is now. They also figure out that we as teenagers, with a good hourly paying job, would quit school to work full-time. The truth is though that they don’t know that we want to have a career, not just a