ESLW310 02/11/2014 Minimum Wage The minimum wage is a big problem in the U.S. “Assembly Votes to Increase California’s Hourly Minimum wage to $9.25” report how our state’s minimum wage would raise over the next few years: “Under AB 10‚ the hourly minimum wage would increase to $8.25 in 2014‚ $8.75 in 2015 and $9.25 in 2016” (Gutierrez A4). The president of Obama also supports this vote. He said: “It is time to raise the American people’s wage.” But there many people disagree this suggest. People
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Minimum Wage In the United States Minimum Wage is approaching record lows. Even with recent increases inflation is one of the main reasons that workers are being paid less for labor than they were back in the Seventies. 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
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comes with a minimum wage hourly rate. Many teens taking on their first job are willing to take any pay and are therefore satisfied with this rate. The current minimum wage in California is $9 and $7.25 across the United States. The minimum wage must be raised because the cost of living has gone up severely‚ the cost of education has increased‚ and it will save the government money. Since the cost of living has sky rocketed‚ it has become almost impossible to raise a family on a minimum wage job. A
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The concept of minimum wage is to ensure that employers do not pay wages below the mandated level. However this does not always happen instead this policy ends up hurting these workers and the economy in terms of lower job opportunities. This is because the increase of labor costs keeping all other things constant would eat into the net profits of the company. Therefore in order to offset the decrease in profits‚ the need for low skilled labor decreases and companies look for higher productivity
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The term “Core competence” was first put forward in the 1990. In the book The Core Competence of the Corporation‚collaborated on by famous management experts C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel. It points out‚ “Core competence is optimized knowledge and skills inside some organization‚ especially regarding how to adjust diverse manufacturing skills and optimize different technologies and skills.” In their view‚ core competence first of all should provide the enterprises with the potential to enter different
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The Economics of Minimum Wage One might ask‚ what is minimum wage? Minimum wage is the lowest hourly amount an employer can pay an employee. There may be some exceptions based on the type of worker. There are two kinds of minimum wage rates‚ state and federal. Right now‚ the current minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. In some states‚ minimum wages are higher than the federal rate. Workers are paid the higher amount in those locations. Minimum wage has been a hot subject among the policy makers and
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I believe that minimum wage should be raised. One reason is it would not only be better for the worker‚ but it would also affect the worker’s families in a positive way. If a worker is bringing home more money they will be able to better support their family. They would be able to buy more groceries and necessities that the family would need. Another reason we should raise minimum wage is it would be good for the economy. If a worker were to bring home more money they would be able to spend more
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History of the Minimum Wage · 1938 -- The minimum wage was first enacted into law as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938. The original minimum wage applied to workers engaged in interstate commerce and the production of goods for interstate commerce. In 1938‚ this applied to roughly 11.0 million workers out of a total of 54.9 million workers. The minimum wage was set at $0.25 per hour. · 1961 -- Amendments to the minimum wage law extend coverage primarily to employees in large
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CORE FITNESS Summary Core Fitness is a fitness facilities and equipment provider‚ operating in Central Pennsylvania. After finding that refurbishing and resale of fitness equipment to home gyms could be a lucrative business‚ the company decided to seriously look at it as a business. Further to this‚ Core is now discussing a proposal to reclaim and refurbish unused and unwanted exercise equipment as a complimentary service for their health clubs. Sandy Knight feels that this proposal could allow
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