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    There has been several disagreements about the Government testing arrestees for DNA. Mandatory DNA testing is reasonable and legal by all terms. (Mandatory DNA Testing Is Constitutional 2). However‚ many have started to question it. The fourth amendment goes over privacy and personal rights‚ including unreasonable searches and seizures. Sarah B. Berson quoted in her online article‚ “DNA helps law enforcement investigate and prosecute crime‚ but the new trend of preconviction DNA collection raises

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    Minimum wage legislation is a widely used policy tool put in place to increase wages of low-skilled workers. A minimum wage is usually the legal minimum wage(hourly‚ daily or monthly) that an employer can pay to employees. While many argue the numerous rationales of implementing a minimum wage‚ others find that the implementation of minimum wage can bring about harm. Among others‚ some benefits of minimum wage legislation include: protection of workers from exploitation by employers/firms‚ reducing

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    Mandatory sentencing: judges are too soft on criminals. Their entire focus should be on punishment and retribution‚ and if they keep wasting their time with other considerations then we should introduce mandatory sentencing. To what extent do you agree and why? The sentencing system should not be altered‚ for decreasing the focus and increasing the frequency of sentencing would do more harm than good. An emphasis on merely punishment and retribution in criminal sentencing would prevent the right

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    working at minimum wage could benefit from increases in the minimum wage. However‚ can the minimum wage be too high? The minimum wage controls the gap between the rich and the poor: a gap that many think is too large and could be lowered by increasing the minimum wage. Although they are correct in saying that increasing the minimum wage could reduce the gap between the rich and the poor‚ the minimum wage can still be too high. I argue not upon the question of raising or lowering the minimum wage‚ but

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    Does increasing the price of goods just to raise minimum wage sound like a good idea? There is debate whether the minimum wage should be raised. Everyone probably has a different take on the idea of this. It wont actually decrease poverty‚ which is why the whole thing is being brought up; because people assume it‚ will. My point is that the minimum wage should not be raised. Minimum wage is not just about somebodies income. Raising it will have much greater affect on the economy. The cost

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    Should Minimum Wage be Raised? Some people believe that raising minimum wage will help with economic growth‚ while others believe that minimum wage would do the opposite and actually force the manager to lay off many employees and raise unemployment levels. After researching both sides of this argument I believe that minimum wage should not be raised because after the price is higher‚ the company will not have enough money to pay all their employees and would have to make sacrifices such as laying

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    Professor Date Raising the Minimum Wage Despite Modern Misconceptions The classic argument against raising minimum wage is a competitive economic model‚ the basic economic model that misconstrues the important and detrimental aspects of the modern economy and the greed that is employed by large corporations and their prime investors. The perversion of the model funnels many that are less informed on how economics and ethics work into holding on to the false belief that minimum wage is an elitist motive

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    Minimum Wage Increase “Americans overwhelmingly agree‚ no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty…”‚ said the State of the Union in 2014. In 2014‚ fifty-three percent of all people‚ that worked full time jobs‚ year-round‚ that were between the ages of 18 and 64‚ were living at poverty level (U.S Census‚ 2014). People are working their hardest and still not being able to get by. A minimum wage increase could prevent this. With the wage increase‚ people will be able to

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    of US government regulation of the minimum wage‚ and its advantageous or disadvantageous affects if the wage is raised. This report will also analyze the claims of the benefits and harms of raising the minimum wage by examining the validity and foundations for each argument‚ as well as provide alternatives to raising the minimum wage in order to help the poverty-stricken and low skilled workers that raising the minimum wage supporters are aiming to do. Minimum wage has been a subject of many debates

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    In general‚ any law that only applies to a segment of a population is inherently a bad law. Minimum wage laws fall into this category because it only effects a segment in the socio-economic structure. Additionally it creates an artificial standard similar to trade tariffs. Economically this does little but creates economic waste. Raising a minimum wage will effectively increase cost for that socio-economic level. Some ways we see it happening here in this article is that while these people are making

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