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| No | 59% | 558 votes | Total: 940 votes | |
| Yes | 41% | 382 votes |
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by Tom Koecke
Created on: October 25, 2007
The concept of minimum wage is to protect unskilled employees from employers who might not otherwise
Created on: September 03, 2007 Last Updated: November 17, 2009
The idea of minimum wage being fair or not depends on ones perspective. If you are one of the 3% of
Created on: September 09, 2007
Minimum wage will never be a "fair" wage, because it will never be based on the value of the work completed.
Created on: September 03, 2007
One good way to think about things like minimum wage is to imagine what it would be like without it.
by Jeff Brooks
Created on: September 14, 2007
The very existence of the minimum wage is not fair. It is not fair to wage-earners. It is not fair to
Created on: October 17, 2007 Last Updated: July 29, 2008
The minimum wage is one of the reasons there is such a high poverty and crime rate in America. Now,
Created on: May 28, 2009
Minimum wage is far from fair and minimum is exactly what most hardworking Americans receive. It is
Created on: September 03, 2007
Minimum wage is not fair, especially when you consider that people making minimum wage seldom get benefits
by Nikki Pons
Created on: March 02, 2009
Minimum wage is neither fair nor effective for what it is meant to accomplish. Minimum wage was set
by Jenny Turpin
Created on: May 03, 2009
The only thing fair about minimum wage is that no one can get paid less than that. Besides that, there
Created on: August 05, 2008
To ask the question of whether or not minimum wage is fair, we would have to define fair. I checked
Created on: August 08, 2009
How can a society consider poverty as being fair? That is exactly what minimum wage offers workers who
Created on: October 16, 2007
Normally the question, "Is it fair?" has to be followed with the question, "Fair to who?" Fair to one,
by Mae South
Created on: September 05, 2007
In real life, minimum wage is a joke! If you are a teenager who is starting out in your first job and
Created on: October 08, 2009
Is minimum wage fair?
No, for several reasons. Labor is a market good, just like fruit or Nintendo.
by T.C Leonard
Created on: August 14, 2007
Minimum wage is only fair if you are a teenager working after school to earn a few dollars worth of
Created on: August 14, 2007
Minimum wage is not a living wage. It is the bare minimum one needs to get by. In Ohio, where I live,
by Tom Parsons
Created on: October 15, 2007
It is not the amount of the minimum wage that I believe is unfair. It is the existence of this law that
Created on: July 03, 2009
How far we've come in the twenty-first century, the economy balanced, the status of living raised across
Created on: October 09, 2007
The question of whether or not Minimum Wage is fair is rather subjective isn't it? And, the answer relies
Yes
Created on: May 27, 2007
Minimum wage is extremely fair...to the point that I'm not sure how it could be interpreted as being
Created on: March 01, 2009 Last Updated: March 03, 2009
Minimum wage is more than fair in our society. Today, minimum wage rule is short of what we need to
by Ethel Smith
Created on: July 11, 2007
Many countries have at some time or another passed legislation to set a minimum wage that employers
Created on: July 31, 2007
The minimum wage is based on this radical concept: If you're going to ask someone to devote the majority
Created on: July 20, 2008
Due to the U.S, dollar's ever changing purchasing power, (i.e.; due to inflation) the U.S. Congress
by Moira Bryant
Created on: December 30, 2007
Is the minimum wage fair? What a question to ask when the majority of Americans make minimum wage, or
by Herman
Created on: June 20, 2007
Is minimum wage fair? I don't know about the system in the U.S. but in the UK it is.
Employers can hire
by Kimmy Millet
Created on: June 26, 2007
The Real Estate-Wage Link and How it affects our Economy....
A basic understanding of economics is a
Created on: January 23, 2008
Minimum wage is fair. When my mother, Eleanor, worked for Western Industries in the early 1970's, the
Created on: February 01, 2008
Of course a minimum wage is fair. The minimum wage is a measure for all other wages to be set.
How do
by Jeanne Deaux
Created on: January 24, 2008
It's true that one of the factors in the decision to hire an employee is how much the employee will
Created on: September 08, 2007 Last Updated: January 31, 2009
Life isn't fair. This is a reality. Everything you get from life you have to fight for. If you want
by Charlotte B
Created on: September 29, 2007
Ok, so, working your ass off and making next to nothing sucks. I agree.
But realistically?
We all engineer
by LScar
Created on: September 03, 2007
I see two possible questions here. The first is a question of our practice or policy of enforcing a
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