Living from Minimum Wage
Living from Minimum Wage
We know in the world of today, most households have two incomes to maintain the basic everyday needs. We all have worked jobs that paid bare minimum, gave crappy hours along with fatigue. Gilbert and Henslin divided the lower class into the Working Poor and the Underclass (Gilbert The American Class Structure 1998). The Working Poor’s employment is in the service and manual labor and the Underclass relies solely on government aid and has not participate in the workforce.
There are about 3 million workers in the United States that worked full time year round last year and still fell below the National poverty level. If everyone earns exactly the same amount of money, then the income distribution would be perfectly equal. If no one earns any money except for one person, who earns all of the money, then the income distribution would be perfectly unequal.
Distribution is usually somewhere in the middle of perfectly equal or unequal. Some will argue that increasing the minimum will hurt the economy because it will cause companies the inability to create new positions. If these entry level jobs are minimum wage to suit the teenagers of legal working age, then why are companies paying adult workers the same wage?
The original policy objective of minimum wage legislation was to protect women and children, who were thought to be the most vulnerable and exploited groups of workers. Around the time of early minimum wage legislation, related legislation was also being implemented to protect workers from excessive long hours of work and poor working conditions. The objectives of these legislations were meant to ensure that employment conditions met a set of minimum standards (Fortin, Lemieux 1998).
Further the intended objectives of creating a minimum wage is to prevent the exploitation of workers by their employers, to stimulate a fair wage structure, to provide a minimum standard of living for low income workers and to help alleviate
We know in the world of today, most households have two incomes to maintain the basic everyday needs. We all have worked jobs that paid bare minimum, gave crappy hours along with fatigue. Gilbert and Henslin divided the lower class into the Working Poor and the Underclass (Gilbert The American Class Structure 1998). The Working Poor’s employment is in the service and manual labor and the Underclass relies solely on government aid and has not participate in the workforce.
There are about 3 million workers in the United States that worked full time year round last year and still fell below the National poverty level. If everyone earns exactly the same amount of money, then the income distribution would be perfectly equal. If no one earns any money except for one person, who earns all of the money, then the income distribution would be perfectly unequal.
Distribution is usually somewhere in the middle of perfectly equal or unequal. Some will argue that increasing the minimum will hurt the economy because it will cause companies the inability to create new positions. If these entry level jobs are minimum wage to suit the teenagers of legal working age, then why are companies paying adult workers the same wage?
The original policy objective of minimum wage legislation was to protect women and children, who were thought to be the most vulnerable and exploited groups of workers. Around the time of early minimum wage legislation, related legislation was also being implemented to protect workers from excessive long hours of work and poor working conditions. The objectives of these legislations were meant to ensure that employment conditions met a set of minimum standards (Fortin, Lemieux 1998).
Further the intended objectives of creating a minimum wage is to prevent the exploitation of workers by their employers, to stimulate a fair wage structure, to provide a minimum standard of living for low income workers and to help alleviate