Reason why they should raise minimum wages:
It would create close to 160,000 jobs
More people would raise above the poverty line
Less people would need to take advantage of the government
If you think about the lowest paid, they are the once that are more than likely struggling. They are the ones that are taking advantages of the social security or food stamps. If their wages was to raise they would not be able to qualify for those things until they was older or it would make it harder for them to get them. People who are taking advantage of the system when they don’t need it, should start looking for a job, because that why I think we are in so much debt. Unless they really do need those things then they are just better off how they are now. If the minim wage would raise it would take our country debt down little. Because this country was made on people providing for themselves not the country providing for us! I think we have most definitely lost sight of that! Minimum wage is connected to so many different things and people are not thinking on how it is!
What is minimum wage connecting too?
Child support
Food stamps
Providing for yourself
Not having to live off the government
Being able to have freedom
Social security
Medicare
Low income apartments
And much more!! If you sit down and think about it all of our problems begin with our income!
“The intuitive thinking on raising the minimum wage is straightforward: Raising the lowest wage that employers can pay will boost the paychecks of the lowest-paid workers and help pull them out of poverty. This line of logic persuaded 28 states to raise their minimum wage above the federal level between 2003 and 2007”————- cnn
Website: http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/16/opinion/saltsman-minimum-wage/
Megan Huffman 