Pros and Cons of Minimum Wage
The argument for minimum wage has remained remake consistent over the years. Some people are against minimum wage and the other think minimum wage can help you in a certain way. In the midst of the Great Depression, the Unites States federal government passed the Fair Labor Standards Act. The law has been amended almost every year to expand coverage of the wage floor and to increase the wage itself. Many of the fifty states have enacted their own minimum wage laws, some of them set even higher than the federal level. Minimum wage jobs don’t only help adults at hard times it help teenagers and college students. I learned that the proponents for minimum wage believe the raw value of one’s labor to a business shouldn’t be the primary factor in determining that workers wage. They consider a wage to be something not only owed to someone on the basis of their labor value, but also in light of their needs. In the labor pool there are people who are new to the market, young and unskilled. In order for their jobs to have significant consequence for them those jobs need to pay an amount that matters to them. Employees earning low wage are likely to apply for and receive welfare benefits there by increasing the cost society must pay in order to keep them afloat. Therefore we should consider high minimum wage as an important part of a comprehensive government assistance package. On the other hand the standard free market economic complaint that minimum wage causes unemployment and has become a significant attack in the last decade. The basic practical argument against minimum wages is that they don’t accomplish what they set out to do and actually crate more problems than they set out to solve. Minimum wage laws causes unemployment a lifelong depressing effect on the earning of many of those forced into unemployment and harm in particular the least-skilled most disadvantaged members of society. There is evidence that the very people targeted...
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