Minimum Wage The Questionable Policy
As early as 6.00 am in a dark and cold morning of Midwest winter, a few people walking on an icy sidewalk. Under chilling wind, those people walk to a large, old building. Inside the building, the people work for repetitive, backbreaking low waged jobs. In the same day, late at night, you can see similar scene: some people walking out of the building under heavy snowstorm.
Being one of those people, I know the feeling of a minimum waged worker. Like all of those workers, I feel exhausted after finishing my job. Everyday, I wait with impatience to hear my supervisor say “That is it, turn off the belt.” After put off my safety gloves and sweep my sweat, I can only think to return to my room and sleep. I lost most of my time and energy just for a few dollars.
There are a lot of people that work harder and earn less than me. The poor, especially less-skilled workers, has access only to “bad jobs at bad wages” (Blank 64). Those workers always face bad situation. They are poor. They are struggling to sustain the life of their families.
On the contrary, the owners of the company where they work have a high standard of living. Bad wage is advantageous for the group of people known as traditional elites who own labor-intensive firms because it lowers production cost, thus increase the competitiveness of the product. For that reason, it is natural for the traditional elites to keep wage as low as possible. This action creates what Karl Marx wrote in The Communist Manifesto as ”naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation” (82).
The minimum wage seems to be an appealing solution against these abusive exploitations. Applying a minimum wage law, government can force a wealth distribution among the owners and their lowest level workers. On Saturday, June 25, 1938, The U.S. Congress first instituted a minimum wage with the Fair Labor Standard Act. The minimum wage was set at 25 cents per working hour (US Department of Labor). The federal minimum wage is increase overtime, adjusted for higher living cost due to accumulated inflation. The minimum wage level is currently set at $5.15 per working hour (2001).
An increase in minimum wage can help the poor by substantial amount. A 75-cent per hour increase in the minimum wage means an additional $1,500 for a minimum wage earner who works full-time, year round – “as much as the average family spends on groceries in 6 months” (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Every woman has the right to make any decision that involves her body. Our government has always respected the individual’s right to privacy. A woman’s reproductive system should not be regulated by the government. In the Supreme Court case, Roe v. Wade in 1973, the decision to make abortion legal came in effect (Frohock 1983). Before Roe, many women were pregnant were forced to weigh their respect for the law against their positivism that they were not ready to be mothers. Many women chose to break the law, putting their lives and futures at risk, and decided to get unsafe and expensive procedures.
Poverty continues to grow in America. The average minimum wage in the United States is $7.35 an hour- far too low in today’s society. Key expenses, for example, gas and housing prices, have gone up significantly since the minimum wage was last changed in 2007 (Wagner 52). The laws creating the minimum wage were intended to improve the standard of living and decrease poverty. Raising minimum wage is a vital step in decreasing poverty and giving every family the opportunity to survive and succeed. Millions of hard-working Americans are below the poverty line and need an increase in pay. Minimum wage must be raised because it will diminish poverty and assist the working class to support their families.
As our practice ends early, my three best friends have the idea of going to go eat out, which seemed like a good idea, I let them decide where they wanted to go and of course no one would make a vote for where they wanted to go. Finally, Beth made the decision of going to McDonalds. When I hear her option, I slightly cringe because I don’t really go there often, since no one makes any other suggestions I drove to McDonalds. As I park the car, we all get out and go into the fast food restaurant and we remain there standing and waiting for one of us to make the first order. I see that the cashier is new to her job because there was another lady there trying to guide her in what she was doing.
Many think that community service is just something you are forced to do for school. To me, community service is a way of giving back. I like making people feel as though they matter, and it gives me a warm feeling at the end of the day because I feel I have made a difference. I grow as a person each time I do community service.
Women have always been minorities throughout the entire US history and have always been put down by men simply because they are women. Women have always been limited in what ever they do. For example, women generally get payed less than men if both are performing the same job and work the same amount of hours because the stereotypes of women that they cannot preform the same tasks as well as men. Women are not only discriminated in jobs but are also restricted to what they do with their bodies when they want to under go an abortions by the state and and federal laws. According to Pema Levy, “In the past three years, states across the country have passed more abortion restrictions - - more than 200 laws - -than in the preceding decade” (n.p.). These laws are making it more difficult, expansive and the access for women to under go an abortion, which can be a problem for women that may have a miscarriage or women that can not financially support a baby and may not able to provide...
America is currently working on the issue of whether the minimum wage should be increased from $7.25 to $10.10 and economists are studying the effects of the possible increase. Minimum wage workers deal with struggles such as affording health care, paying for education, providing food for their families, putting many hours of work in while making little income and paying their bills. America’s decision to raise the minimum wage would help low wage workers to make higher incomes and would overall strengthen the economy, pulling Americans out of poverty. Americans may hold a minimum wage job if they do not have money to attend a college or university to obtain a degree in order to find a career.
Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in the United States today. According to oxford dictionary, abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks. The two factions involved in this controversy are poles apart in their views on abortion: where as the pro-choice movement contends that a woman’s right to abortion is absolute, the pro-life movement asserts that a fetus’s right to life is indisputable. The argument has become very pronounced since the U.S Supreme Court ruling in the year 1973 in Roe V. Wade, which legalized abortion. According to the ruling, a woman’s right to abortion outweighed the rights of a nonviable fetus and prohibited the State interference. In addition to the fact that pro-choicers have always praised Roe for recognizing that a woman’s right to control her body is more important than a fetus’s right to life, this idea is also supported by different organizations such as Alan Guttmatcher Institute (AGI) whose mission is “to protect the reproductive choices of all women and men in the United States and throughout the world.” (Par 1) While some people believe that abortion is immoral others argue that it is a woman’s right to have full control of her body.
It’s been a major social issue since the 1970’s and the case of Roe v. Wade. Over the years, abortion has been argued from both standpoints, for the unborn babies and against the denying of women’s rights to control their own bodies. Though some say it should be legal, the act of abortion should be illegal because the process can be considered murder, people take advantage of the option and abuse the system, and it can be a health risk to a woman’s body.
Did you know that right now in the United States that the choice of women as to what to do with their own bodies as to child bearing might be taken away from them? While controversial, abortion is a medical procedure that allows a woman to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. It is usually done during the first trimester, which is the first twelve weeks of pregnancy. Abortion has been legal since 1973, after the Roe v. Wade court case. This Supreme Court court case overturned all state laws in the United States restricting a woman’s access to abortion procedures during the first trimester of pregnancy, and during the second trimester in emergency cases. It seems that abortion should be legal because women should be free to choose what to do with their bodies and there are various circumstances where the procedure may be a good, but difficult choice, for a girl or woman.
First, the federal government has a say in what is or is not legal. The fight for women to have the right to have an abortion has been going on for more than forty years. Starting, in 1965 when the federal Medicaid program insured low-income individuals and their families. Then in 1973, in the United States Supreme Court Case, Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that the choice to have an abortion is protected under the United States Constitution. According to, this case it was constitutional for a women to have an abortion since she does have the right to privacy. Although the Supreme Court decided that abortions do not violate the constitution, however, since this ruling there has been several cases discussing abortions. An example of one of the more recent cases being, in 2007 when the Supreme Court upheld the first federal law banning abortion procedures. More specially, this cases banned the use of partial-birth abortions. As a result, of the brutality of this type of abortion; in fact, a partial-birth abortion is when a living child is delivered, feet first until the naval is outside the mother’s body then the doctor would perform an overt act to kill it. In addition to Supreme Court rulings, the Hyde Amendment was passed in 1997. This amendment withholds federal Medicaid funding from abortion nationwide with few exceptions. This amendment unfairly restricted insurance for millions of low-income women
...vanovic, Lecture 9). Although they may help reduce the hunger, it just maintains the problem of food insecurity among homeless youth, but it does nothing to actually fix the problem. Therefore, increasing the number of food banks is not a suitable solution. Many times you will find that the people who take advantage of food banks are not the ones who would benefit the most from it. Homeless youth tend to feel embarrassed and ashamed to have to rely on food banks. They may believe there is a stigma attached to being homeless and using food banks, hence they avoid it altogether (Jovanovic, Lecture 9). This may also be the reason that they avoid using any health care services that are available to them. Having to deal with health issues, stress in dealing with instability and not being able to predict what the future holds for you, many youth develop mental illnesses.
Some reason that I will complete 25 or more hours of community service is to help better the environment, show positivity, help others who are in need, to be exposed to more opportunities that will allow me to explore other careers as well as the career that I am interested in. I would like to gain more professional experiences expecially since I would like to be in the business field. Community service
As provided for in the Declaration of Independence, every person is entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Let’s start with the first and most basic of these rights: life. When women have abortions, children are being deprived of their most basic right of living, which in turn robs them of all of the other intrinsic rights of human beings. In a society that prizes equality and liberty for all, abortions aren’t too dissimilar from that ideal. Although abortions have been legal for over forty years, abortions should be illegal because the fetus isn’t a part of the woman’s body, abortions are harmful to every party involved, and unplanned pregnancies can be avoided through methods that are more proactive.
Under the process theory of motivation we have the expectancy/valence theory develop by Victor Vroom who discovered that the individual will find reasoning to confirm that there is motivation arising from the correlation from one’s effort leading to performance and its’ the rewards. The more effort, the better the performance are expected and good performance leads to rewards. Three key elements found in expectancy/valence theory which are expectancy, instrumentality and valence. Expectancy is the probability estimates over the employee/individual’s effort resulting to a specific level of performance, Instrumentality is the probability estimates that rewards will result from a good performance and valence is the individual behavioural choice
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