Reduce Poverty In Mexico

Many countries face many problems, problems that don’t allow it to be a comfortable place to be or safest place to be. This causes for people to leave it and their families, to go to a better place where they can have a great life. Countries like this are all over the world, but one important one is Mexico. Mexico is a country just below the U.S that constantly faces violence, corruption, and most importantly poverty. Above all those, poverty is what mostly affects the
Mexican people which forces them to immigrate and face persecution by authorities. However, it doesn’t have to be this way at all if the President's wanted to. If Mexican politicians raised the labor wages for workers, and created more jobs this will for sure decrease poverty
To prove it, “Insiders knew it wasn’t but the I have always argued that the best solution for poverty is to initially create decent paying jobs. I have also argued for many years that only the national government has the capacity to really intervene in this way”(The best way to eradicate poverty is to create jobs 1). Here we can see that professional people agree with this solution, and have everything to back it up.
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Between the two solutions, raising the minimum wage is the best one. This so, because if
Mexico just has many jobs but they all have extremely low wages it just makes the worker suffer. Whereas, if there are a decent amount of jobs with a high low wages, the worker won’t need a second job and he will be with his family longer. For example, “Broad­based wage growth—if we can figure out how to achieve it—would dwarf the impact of nearly every other economic trend or policy in reducing poverty”(Increasing Wages is an Effective Poverty
Reduction Tool, Even for Kids 1). Mexico not necessary has to go out and make new jobs, it just needs to have jobs that pay well decent so Mexicans don’t have to leave to another country.
Families and communities will benefit greatly, if the minimum wage is raised the country will also.
Although there are many who agree that raising wages and creating jobs will reduce poverty, there are others who say it will make it worse. Heritage Foundation expert James Shrek claims that raising the wages will not reduce poverty, but increase it even more. Shrek tells the reader that, “No business pays its employees more than they produce. A higher minimum wage would cause businesses to lay off every worker who does not add at least $9 an hour in value to their enterprise”(The National Memo 2). Moreover, he says that low­wage workers with large families benefit from government assistance, but if their wages are raised their support decreases.
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To prove it, “As workers’ incomes rise they qualify for less and less aid—effectively an additional tax on their income”(The National Memo 4). James even get support from The
Congressional Budget Office to defend his argument, he says that the office “finds these reductions push many low­income workers’ marginal tax rates to nearly 100 percent”(The
National Memo 7). This shows that James does have proof of his claim, however more