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Amanda ColesProfessor John HobackMacroeconomics (WB FA13)04 December 2013Case Against Raising the Minimum WageThe raising of the federal minimum wage will negatively affect individuals, small business, and the labor market, therefore; the minimum wage should not be raised. The federal minimum wage ($0.25 per hour) was instituted in 1938 in the Fair Labor Standards Act and has been raised at least 22 times since then. Originally, it covered the mining, manufacturing, and transportation industries but now covers over 85% of the workforce. Currently, there are states that have implemented a minimum wage higher than the federal current of $7.25 per hour (Wilson).The subject of raising the
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This was actually a short answer question from my economics test which asked me to explain in a short paragraph how minimum wage reflects the application of "supply and demand" to the real worl economy of Canada.This application of supply and demand to the real world economy of Canada is by showing that as the pay rates go up, the supply of citizens willing and able to work for the job or position available will increase while the demand or number of positions available for the job will be limited. The equilibrium price is the wage in which there are just enough people willing to work as there are positions available. As the government imposes minimum wage, the supply and demand of jobs is
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Should the Minimum Wage Be Increased?
In the United States, the minimum wage is currently $7.25. However, some believe that the minimum wage should be greater than fifteen dollars an hour—more than double the current minimum wage. Although it sounds like a good idea to some, it would be a mistake for the United States to increase the minimum wage by this much. There are several reasons that the minimum wage should not increase. Regional cost of living differences, job elimination, and decreased educational incentives are all reasons that the minimum wage should not be more than double its current level.
Throughout the United States, the cost of living varies widely from region to region
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The economic impact of Ontario's minimum-wage hike on the province's lowest earners has received a great deal of attention, but the effect is felt more broadly by employers who face labour cost increases.
Ontario increased its minimum wage to $14 from $11.60 on Jan. 1 and plans another hike – to $15 an hour – next year. As predicted, some businesses responded immediately by reducing hiring, cutting employee work hours, reducing benefitsand charging higher prices. Further, Ontario experienced a decline of more than 59,000 part-time jobs in January, as highlighted by Statistics Canada. While it is too early to attribute this decline to any specific factor, the sharp wage hike is unlikely to
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Assignment: Write a 1 page thoughtful response that clearly draws on data
from this article: Should we raise the minimum wage?
Should We Raise the Minimum Wage? 11 Questions and Answers
By Jordan Weissmann
Dec. 2013
Reuters
2013 was a good year for supporters of a higher minimum wage. States including New York, California, and New Jersey passed hikes. Residents of SeaTac, Washington, voted to turn their tiny city into a living economics experiment by increasing its minimum to $15 an hour. Washington, D.C., seems poised to raise its own wage. And President Obama threw his support behind a bill that would increase the federal minimum to $10.10 an hour and require it to rise with the cost of
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In the United States, fifteen percent of Americans struggle with the hardship of poverty. That comes out to forty-five million people living a poor way of life. One of the direct correlating causes of this is wages. The simple truth is that with a minimum wage barely reaching past seven dollars, these millions of citizens just aren’t earning enough to be able to support themselves and those around them. Most of these people are responsible for children and others as well. With an income so low, most families are living check to check just to survive. The very apparent solution is a federal wage increase. The national minimum wage in the United States should be raised to allow for
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resources of manpower, government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor, and the exploitation of unorganized labor." In 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was passed with immense pressure from organized labor as a primary means to conserve that "primary resource of manpower", but instead drove out hundreds of thousands of workers in order to force higher wages for other people. Though the unemployment rate around that time was 18%, the Federal Government decided it wanted to flex its political muscle and drive wages higher. In those times, the FLSA established a twenty-five cents minimum wage, and mandated a 40-hour workweek. Any time spent over
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Freedom of knowledgeEducation has been around since the beginning of time. In the beginning knowledge was passed down by the elders. As humans developed, education became more formal. In the United States today, a child is required to go through thirteen years of formal education inside a classroom. After he graduates, the young adult must decide whether or not he wishes to attend college. If he decides to attend college, it will cost between $4,000 and $26,000 a year depending on what courses are available and the quality of the school. If the high school graduate decides he does not want to go to college, he will most likely be working a minimum wage job for the rest of his life. There
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lower unemployment by increasing literacy and encouraging newly educated
youth and women to join the workforce. Currently, the labor market is strongly controlled by the
government. Labor market reform, such as moving away from a national minimum wage and allowing
company level wage bargaining, would encourage companies to hire more employees, lowering the
unemployment rate.
To finance its current debt, Italy is borrowing money
from the public in the form of government bonds. However,
Italy’s government bonds have been downgraded. Therefore,
they must sell the bonds at a lower price, which increases
interest rates and yield (Figure 1). Additionally, Italian banks
are purchasing government
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to serve the customers. Washing dishes in this small kitchen was not an easy task because the heat was unbearable. Moreover, it was indeed a noisy working area. Noises could be heard from inside and outside the kitchen. Waiters and waitresses yelled to the chef's when making orders. Customers chatting with each other loudly, and singer who sang on the stage together with the music band.In addition, the hours was unpredictable, it changed every week. Hence, I had to postponed all my plans when I had to work on that particular time. In some occasion, I had to work for ten hour shifts as a dishwasher. Washing dishes for that long period of hours caused my skin to peel off and became sore.Furthermore, the pay was low. There was no bonus for working overtime, and the minimum wage was about RM500 per month.My working experience as a dishwasher is truly a nightmare. It is my worse job compare to all my previous jobs. I will never work as a dishwasher again.
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meaning that family dives even deeper into poverty. They lack basic health care, enough amount of food and sturdy houses. Without basic needs, the people cannot work to their full potential and even if they were working really hard they still wouldn’t earn enough money to afford basic needs. The citizens of Sierra Leone do not receive any of the aid they are meant to get given by others but instead this aid is taken by the government for themselves which adds to why Sierra Leone is so poor and will remain to be if no-one does anything to help. When the citizens are working hard mining diamonds, they get paid less than minimum wage which just adds to the working conditions they mine in and if
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There are a lot of jobs available in the city of Toronto, but there are also plenty of people available to fill these positions. The more people we have in our city, the higher the qualifications for certain positions are, thus, the harder it is for our city's students to find good paying jobs.Students can attain jobs fairly easily, as there are always people and places hiring for younger individuals. The key here is "good" jobs. Most of these places that are looking for help, and to hire, tend to be in the food services industries, such as McDonalds, which usually start to pay at minimum wage, with no bonuses or tips. These big corporations make so much money, and I'm sure paying such low
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mineral processing operations in the United States (DOL.gov). Finally, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is focused on the rights of young workers pertaining to the protection of youth in America and is administered and enforced by DOL's Employment Standards Administration's Wage and Hour Division. The Department of Labor reports, "The FLSA contains minimum age restrictions for employment, restrictions on the times of day youth may work, and the jobs they may perform." The practice of a safety program in the workplace should enable the business to create systems of communication to carry out the steps to take when a disaster strikes. According to Mathis & Jackson (2003, p.489), "Well
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Compensation and Benefits Plan Executive SummaryDue to shrinking local labor market and increasing turnover within SMC Company, the board members of SMC will propose a comprehensive and progressive compensation and benefits plan to the CEO to increase retention in the Company. Traditionally SMC has paid only minimum wage and mandatory benefits. The following paper will propose the costs of the plan, external and internal equity, and creative methods of compensation and voluntary benefits for SMC.Cost Of PlanIn order to address the issues of retention at SMC, we must first look at cost: are we spending too much, or are we not spending enough in addressing the compensation and benefits needs
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challenges that will arise. One such challenge Nike had to overcome what the public outrage and protests regarding child labor, hazardous conditions, and pitiful wages. Nike was criticized for taking jobs away from the United States and moving them overseas where employees, often young children, worked in poor environments, worked long hours to fill quotas, and were paid wages well below the cost of standard of living. The company was dealing with legal, ethical and cultural issues all at once. There was finger pointing of how Nike took advantage of it's employees in various countries. The wage issues were simply handled by increasing the country's living wage to the minimum, which was the
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Ever since I started college in the fall, I haven't really been able towatch as much television that I would like to. I have been able too catchsnippets here and there, but nothing really "in depth". One show that I usedto watch was Roseanne. Some of the things that seem natural to thecharacters on the show reflect what we have been studying all semester inthis class.Roseanne, a wife and a mother of three, is a stubborn, loud, andobnoxious character. She works on and off in a diner and most likelyreceives minimum wage. Whenever she is at work, she is constantly arguingwith her male boss or complaining about something or other. He's a nice guy,but outright says that he doesn't want to know
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familiar with common carpentry jobs, such as layout, form buildings, rough framing, and outside and inside framing. There are many dangerous task in this job. Carpenters risk injury working with sharp or rough materials, using sharp tools and power equipments, and working in situations where they might slip or fall. Carpenters can slip on sawdust if they don't be careful. Sawdust can also be breathed in by workers if they don't have their masks on. Beginning pay for Carpenters goes from minimum wage to over $2.00 an hour. Journey level Carpenters can earn up to $25.00 per hour. Carpenters that are full experienced can make as much as $28.00 per hour. In this research I learned that carpenters have a pretty rough life. They have to be careful not to make mistakes. Carpenters also have to work hard in bad conditions. Someday I might think about being a carpenter. That's what I learned in this research on carpenters.
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source of income. Many families sold their houses to buy food for the children to survive, but the money, which came from the house, did not last very long. Eventually, the owners of each factory realised that by hiring children, they could get work done a lot faster, make them work long hours as well as give the children the minimum wage. Slowly, many young children started to work to pay for rent and food (Source 2), these children were as young as 5 and school became not compulsory, as many working-class families could not afford education. Even though the working conditions was very bad because of the amount of food, the dusty air or the cruel master which strapped children who failed
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gained through life experiences.
· Increase minimum wage- to cover standard living costs. With increased minimum wage families would have increased monthly income which would decrease poverty rates.
· Provide more affordable housing units- that are designed to support single-parent families as well as families with low-incomes.
· Improve the accessibility and decrease the costs of post-secondary education- this way more people with low-incomes will be able to get higher education. This would increase their chances of getting a better job with a better pay, ultimately ending the cycle of poverty (citizenUltraining, 2011).
· Develop a universal child care system- supported by government that
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was meeting its demise and he needed something grand to attempt to save it. In January 1935, he began speaking of a “New Deal” over a series of live radio speeches. Bennett wanted a reason to stay Prime Minister and the New Deal was perfect. Influenced by Roosevelt’s New Deal in America, the Canadian New Deal included minimum wage, a more progressive taxation system, closer regulation of working conditions, a maximum work week, a revised old-age pension, unemployment insurance, health and accident insurance, and agricultural support programs. It was expensive, drastic and greatly opposed by other political parties. When he proposed the idea, it was too late for Bennett and the reforms were not
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