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Poverty and minimum wage being low Lakeesha Grass GEN499: General Education Capstone Instructor: Sonja Bethune June 29, 2015 Increasing minimum wage will great be of beneficial to nearly 28 million workers among the nation. It will also insist businesses as well, by increasing the wages this will cause additional money to be in individuals’ pockets, in which they will put back into the economy by purchasing goods and services into their populations. Minimum wage has been a hot seat

1 CONTENTS 2 Reviewed journal articles 1 3 Introduction 2 4 Hypothesis 3 Hypothesis 1: Low-income individuals may behave in ways that appear short-sighted and impede long-term success 3 Hypothesis 2: Attachment of money to time can cause detrimental effects of income scarcity. 3 Hypothesis 3: Increase in income does not translate to happiness since raise in income reciprocates the more material needs thus leaving the happiness quotient intact. 3 Hypothesis 4: Family employees demonstrate a higher

Homelessness affects men, women, families, children, youth, and veterans. While structural factors, like the unequal distribution of income and lack of affordable housing, cause homelessness, certain vulnerabilities may determine who is at higher risk for homelessness. These include addictions, mental illness, domestic violence, medical conditions, and lack of education or job skills. This research paper will shed some light on the issue of homelessness and how we can prevents it with some suggested

that position who are stricken by poverty. I will argue in favour of a living wage for those who would benefit most from it, the marginalized. The living wage project seeks to promote business’s paying their employees a living wage rather than a minimum wage in the hopes of giving families a decent standard of living. For Regina Saskatchewan the living wage for a family of four is projected to be $16.46 an hour for each parent. This allows for a family to participate in various recreational and community

Introduction In 1938, the first national minimum wage laws in the United States were passed as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which served as “a floor below wages,” to reduce poverty and to ensure that economic growth is shared across the workforce. Today, many people who work for companies that pay at or near the minimum wage and remain near or below the poverty level rely on government health and food security and income programs to supplement their living expenses. Since 1938, there have

risen in recent times on the media is the widening wage gap between the rich and the poor, and the debate on whether or not an increase in minimum wage could solve the problem. While the whole nation would like to solve the issue of income inequality and minimum wage, the focus of this argumentative paper will be on the state of California. An increase in minimum wage should be adopted since everyone deserves to earn a livable age, especially when the reality of the economic situation in America points

Minimum Wage Civil rights are meant to ensure people’s physical and mental integrity, safety and life. Civil rights are not meant to be separated between race, gender, nationality, origin, color, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, or disabilities.Civil rights also include the individual rights that include protection of speech and religion. Minimum wage is considered a civil right because it is to be protected for people to have physical integrity in the thought of you being able to eat. Mental integrity

as robots take over a lot of what were high paying jobs. The minimum wage should be different for different types of jobs. There shouldn’t be an adult who works 40 hours a week and is still in poverty. Under no circumstances should anybody have to work more than 40 hours a week just to be sure their families can get through. If minimum wage was raised to ten dollars an hour, then many families would be above the poverty line. The minimum wage of $7.25 an hour used to be enough to keep a family out

wage for individuals” (The Boston Globe). This is an argument about a concern over policy, and how restaurants should not be able to pay their workers a tipped minimum wage. “Meanwhile, lawmakers should summon the courage to reject the demands of the National Restaurant Association, which is largely responsible for Massachusetts’ ‘tipped minimum wage’ — under which restaurants are allowed to pay workers just $2.63 [per hour] with the hard-to-enforce understanding that tips will make up the rest of the

Minimum wage was established on October 24, 1938 after President Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act. (Grossman) Minimum wage was set to allow working class citizens an opportunity to work a reasonable amount of hours for pay that would enable individuals to maintain a minimal quality life. In today’s economics minimum wage is used as a price control or price floor that the government enforces. A price floor is a minimum price for a product or service above the market’s equilibrium price