The war of minimum wage is a battle ground. Everybody either wants the min wage to go up or stay where it’s at. Only 95% of the income gain in 2009, but only 1% of that earned anything from it. Private business owners added over 8 million jobs, but two thirds are minimum wage jobs. The stereotype of a minimum wage worker is a teen flipping burgers and saving beer money, which is 1 in 4 min wage worker would be a teen. More than half of the min wage worker is 25 years old or older. “Today’s minimum wage would be 30% pay cut in 1968. But for the inflation calculate $7.25 in 1968 would have the same buying power $48.00 today. This has declined the value of income inequality and is hard to make it in this world today.” said Arindrajit dube, the labor economist University of Massachusetts Amherst. He also said “we could prevent it just by pegging the min wage cost of living.” A minimum wage worker makes $15,080 a year. This is $8,000 below the poverty line. Minimum wage is always going to be a problem with the cost of living going sky high, making it really hard to make it ahead.
Mar25
Megan Huffman 
This topic right here is the reason why minimum wage bugs me so much. We will always be the person running on the treadmill chasing after the green that is being dangled infront of our face.