Reasons for raising the minimum wage 10 Articles

by Carol Lee

Imagine having to work 12-hour days, 6 days a week just to be able to afford rent on a modest 2-bedroom apartment and put food on the table for your family. Despite your long hours, you can barely afford to pay your utili...read more

by Respectfully - Supposn

The minimum wage is both an economic and social benefit to the nation. Acceptance of such a concept leads me to conclude an insufficient minimum wage rate does no good and (if it's extremely insufficient), probably harmfu...read more

by Bobbie Pinchak

The Federal minimum wage until July 24, 2007 is a whopping $5.85. Working 40 hours a week and 80 hours a paycheck, before taxes you make $468 dollars per paycheck. Now take out an average of 10% of that for taxes depending...read more

by Lee Corbin

Think about what it's like to be a 16 year old teenager, In a less than fortuitous family, having to pay car insurance, Which, For a person under 21, Is through the roof. Think about the rising gas prices, About the costs...read more

by J J Debar

It is sad to observe the fact that CEO's of America's 1,000 largest corporations have demonstrated no restraint on their personal accumulation of wealth. In the face of such minimal display of reason or wisdom, we are lef...read more

by Robert Paturzo-Elliott

Its not actually a choice, the minimum wage has to rise in line with inflation, you all need an understanding of how simple the systems of governance all work, the minimum wage is formulated on a string theory of percentag...read more

by Doron Levy

Any business that is dependent on customers will tell you that a huge portion of their expenses is the cost of labor. Minimum wages are on the rise in an effort to increase the standard of living of low-wage workers. Socia...read more

by Karen Dupie

Minimum Wage War Minimum, the least possible, the lowest wage as determined by law. Thats what the workers in this great country deserve. Thats what our government seems to think. Everyday hundreds of thousands of Amer...read more

by Ms.Know.It.All

All I got to say is this, if jobs paid more or if minimum wages were raised to a livable amount, that would cut crime in half. The thing about it is, all these people that are deciding whether to raise wages are wealthy, d...read more

by Lauren Williams

No matter what they ever change the minimum wage to, these workers are still making minimum wage! Why punnish the hard working middle class? Here's something that really chaps my behind. Now those of you who know me, kn...read more