Minimum Wage was Set

Minimum wage was set to keep employers from taking advantage of workers who were in desperate need of employment. Minimum wage should ideally provide enough income so the average American can make a decent living which includes providing shelter, clothing and food. Minimum wage is some times seen as what we should make to make a way of life. When minimum wage is more set to be an entry point for some young adults first entering the work force. Thats not always the case sometimes its a single mother busing tables, or a father who maybe had some bad life decisions and cant find good employment.

The question to raise minimum wage so many factors stand in the way of this. With our world becoming more and more tech savvy the need for a minimum wage employ is less and less. Why have a blockbusters and pay employees to run it when we have red box the cost of operation is cut in half. With our apps when can place our own food orders and soon taking away the need to have someone service us. In major retails we are starting to see more and more of the self check outs.

This is pulling away jobs and replacing a person with a robot or type of system. This can be seen as something that will take away a large amount of jobs to people. Yet can offer a career to others who might have gone to School to learn technology, or study app development to build the many apps we use. We have to see that minimum wage isnt the goal we at all cost have to try and want more. If the federal government was to raise minimum wage to 15.00 an hour how many people in high school would drop out and get a job how many people that have trades or skills to do a special job be surpassed by anyone that can clean tables or answer phones. Where I would like to see minimum wage raised Im not sure its what we need.

the best way to think about it minimum wage is for minimum skills its a stepping stone in life. With the exceptions of the single mother why cant we have better government support for her better health care better daycare assists while she is going to school and working to try and provide a better way of life. with making 15.00 an house would she want to leave the small food chain shes working at would she be happy with her way of life and not want to finish college?

This minimum wage set at 7.25 is 290 for a full time 40 hours employ that comes to just 15,080 a year. This income would leave a two-person household say, a single parent with one child just below the federal poverty threshold of $15,130. Thats full time if our single mother cant work that she Can only do 27 hours a week thats 195.75 a week with only 10,179 a year. Can someone really care for a child and maintain a safe living environment. I dont think minimum wage should be 15.00 an hour but I think we need to see some kind of increase just raising it to 9.80 an hour thats about 20,400 for a year of full-time work.

I see we need to raise minimum wage some to help the ones in need and stay with the increase in cost of living we see rising and rising, but this again is just a stepping stone we need to keep pushing the youth of today, tomorrow, and tell them keep the goals of a career in mind we dont need to settle for just minimum wage. When you want to go to college and become a registered nurse think about this RNs make an average salary of $67,760 per year, and an average hourly wage of $32.56. Thats about 5 times more than minimum wage. cardiologist make anywhere from 335,765 to 504,349 a year this is what we need to keep in mind we get paid for what we learn what we can do. If minimum wage was to go up to $15.00 an hour would companies have a higher turn over rate? This question come to mind would the level of applicants skills decrease?

With the statement I made of the youth wanting to drop out of school when things started to get hard in life knowing they can go out and get a job and live and just get by it would seem we would have less quality employment the basic math, reading, and learning would suffer. I think this would have an increase in crime maybe drug use. Its to easy to just quit and know you will be some what ok. the fear of living pay check to pay check should be enough to help keep the youth in school and to want to become a nurse or the doctor in the emergency room saving lives.

Our youth has to see minimum wage as temporary and not long term I say this with the understanding of the ones out there having life issues we need to have the focus turned to the government options we have to help the ones in need that really need the helping hand to the next step in life. With all this said minimum wage needs to be raised. Does it need to be $15.00 no I dont think is does I see more of a down fall of issues and problems that come along with it from employers to employees. 

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