Many people are living on minimum wage realize that is not enough for them to live with, because there are many expenses such as bills of electricity, water, rent or mortgage ... According to huffington post " Despite five years of economic recovery, poverty is still stubbornly high in America." for example how a family with just one child can live and pay a minimum wage to the babysitter? They will spend the same money that they earned. In addition, they try to work overtime to cover this huge gap of spending more than earning. People work all the day sometimes more than 14 hours a day just to survive. They feel as they are just a machine that …show more content…
The first benefits for the workers is more money in the pocket, and they will have more time to spend it with their families because they will work the normal hours per day like everyone else . The second one is that raise can help them to get out from debt a little more and keep them happy to be more producer on their life. Also, that help student to pay their college to get a degree to have a new job with a good salary and give place to another one. The third things is boost consumer spending because when they spend more the money then circulate and refresh the economy