Minimum Wage Should NOT Be Raised
The current minimum wage is eight dollars and thirty-eight cents an hour in the state of New Jersey. Many minimum wage workers go on strike because they want the wage to be raised to fifteen dollars an hour. The wage should not be raised to the insane fifteen an hour. It should not be raised because unemployment rates will skyrocket, prices at stores where minimum wage workers work will go up, and because their jobs do not deserve fifteen dollars an hour. So why raise the wage? Is a minimum wage job worth fifteen an hour?
Fast food workers at McDonald’s want their wage to be raised to fifteen dollars an hour. The workers go on strike and protest for these wages and McDonald’s is slowly giving into their preposterous task. President Barack Obama has signed laws to raise wages by 2020, him and seventeen other states have passed laws to raise the wage by that year too. The lowest minimum wages in the country right now are in Georgia and Wyoming at a whopping five dollars and fifteen cents an hour. Let us be honest, a fast food job is not a hard job at all, really the only thing difficult would have to be dealing with the occasional rude customer. Many other minimum wage jobs do not require much skill at all, it is not worth the fifteen dollars that they keep asking for. Many laboring jobs such as an electrician and plumbers make around thirteen dollars an hour including health benefits, with a job that is obviously much harder than flipping burgers to the extent that the two are not nearly comparable. Blue collar workers, such as plumbers, mechanics, or construction workers electricians, have to get down and dirty and do what others would not do to make thirteen an hour. Although, this does not apply to all plumbers and electricians because their wages start to increase. So why should a worker restocking shelves and scanning groceries deserve fifteen dollars an hour? Many workers who are for raising the wage are workers who have to support a family on a decently low
Fast food workers at McDonald’s want their wage to be raised to fifteen dollars an hour. The workers go on strike and protest for these wages and McDonald’s is slowly giving into their preposterous task. President Barack Obama has signed laws to raise wages by 2020, him and seventeen other states have passed laws to raise the wage by that year too. The lowest minimum wages in the country right now are in Georgia and Wyoming at a whopping five dollars and fifteen cents an hour. Let us be honest, a fast food job is not a hard job at all, really the only thing difficult would have to be dealing with the occasional rude customer. Many other minimum wage jobs do not require much skill at all, it is not worth the fifteen dollars that they keep asking for. Many laboring jobs such as an electrician and plumbers make around thirteen dollars an hour including health benefits, with a job that is obviously much harder than flipping burgers to the extent that the two are not nearly comparable. Blue collar workers, such as plumbers, mechanics, or construction workers electricians, have to get down and dirty and do what others would not do to make thirteen an hour. Although, this does not apply to all plumbers and electricians because their wages start to increase. So why should a worker restocking shelves and scanning groceries deserve fifteen dollars an hour? Many workers who are for raising the wage are workers who have to support a family on a decently low