Persuasive Essay On Minimum Wage
Braeden Kuhn
Mr. Jay Lee
Eng. 101-123
21 Oct. 2014
Minimum Wage Minimum wage is great for young people. No matter what experience you have you still get a fair amount of pay. You can work your way up the ladder and continue to get raises, until you get the amount you’ve been expecting. Minimum wage allows students and less fortunate adults to be paid a wage that subdues the average cost of living. No employer can drop below the seven dollars and fifty cents allocated to all the people in the United States. Some people say that it makes unemployment go up for others, but the good that it does far out ways the bad. The history of minimum wage has changed so much over the course of seventy seven years. If it wasn’t for Franklin Roosevelt back in the thirties, no telling what the wage laws would be like now. In 1937, the United States was recovering from the Great Depression. As part of the recovery effort, President Franklin D. Roosevelt endorsed a series of economic programs, known as the New Deal, to help stimulate and rebuild the U.S. economy. The National …show more content…
Like everything else there are going to be flaws. But we can easily step over these flaws and get back on top. Minimum wage has provided an adequate amount of money to 3.8 million workers in the United States. Employees can’t screw people out of money no more, nor can they make you work your butt off for a low wage. Along with the minimum wage came the forty hour work week. If you work any amount over forty hours you receive time and a half. This allows employees the choice to work extra hours and if they decide to it is well worth their time. Minimum wage has given the lower class people a chance to go somewhere and do something with their lives. Minimum wage is just a starting point, with hard work and a strong will anything can be
Mr. Jay Lee
Eng. 101-123
21 Oct. 2014
Minimum Wage Minimum wage is great for young people. No matter what experience you have you still get a fair amount of pay. You can work your way up the ladder and continue to get raises, until you get the amount you’ve been expecting. Minimum wage allows students and less fortunate adults to be paid a wage that subdues the average cost of living. No employer can drop below the seven dollars and fifty cents allocated to all the people in the United States. Some people say that it makes unemployment go up for others, but the good that it does far out ways the bad. The history of minimum wage has changed so much over the course of seventy seven years. If it wasn’t for Franklin Roosevelt back in the thirties, no telling what the wage laws would be like now. In 1937, the United States was recovering from the Great Depression. As part of the recovery effort, President Franklin D. Roosevelt endorsed a series of economic programs, known as the New Deal, to help stimulate and rebuild the U.S. economy. The National …show more content…
Like everything else there are going to be flaws. But we can easily step over these flaws and get back on top. Minimum wage has provided an adequate amount of money to 3.8 million workers in the United States. Employees can’t screw people out of money no more, nor can they make you work your butt off for a low wage. Along with the minimum wage came the forty hour work week. If you work any amount over forty hours you receive time and a half. This allows employees the choice to work extra hours and if they decide to it is well worth their time. Minimum wage has given the lower class people a chance to go somewhere and do something with their lives. Minimum wage is just a starting point, with hard work and a strong will anything can be