Minimum Wage Must Be Increased

The minimum wage today is less than what it was over thirty years ago. The minimum wage as of today is around seven dollars and fifty cents every hour worked. If you add up how much that would make a year, it would equal around 14,000 to 15,000 dollars a year for full time workers. For some family's, seven dollars and fifty cents is the only income they receive. The amount made from minimum wage lies on a thin sheet of ice and just right below is poverty. Increasing the minimum wage would beneficent everyone by establishing an increase in job growth, setting the stage for the poor so that their expense limit would be increased, and a jump in money being able to be spread around.
By raising the minimum wage, you would be adding new jobs to the economy. Many people who need work would be more influenced by a higher minimum wage. Those who own low wage jobs currently around minimum wage, about thirty-eight million Americans, would be helped by a raise in the minimum wage.(Minimum Wage Myth busters) According to The United States Department of Labor "A raise for minimum wage earners will put more money in more families' pockets, which will be spent on goods and services, stimulating
The extra money could help pay off bills or provide food for individuals and/or families. Families living off minimum wage have daily choices that are hard to choose, like spend money on food that week, or pay the electric bill. Locations like Los Angeles, New York state, and Washington, D.C. have already started on raising the minimum wage to fifth-teen dollars an hour(5 facts about the minimum wage). When the idea of raising the minimum wage comes up, many argue that it would only benefit teens, but in fact eighty-nine percent of the minimum wage workers are between the ages of twenty or older(Minimum Wage Myth