Arguments Against Raising Wages

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Raising wages as a way to remedy poverty is one way to improve economic stability, good nutrition, good health, stable housing, and reduced lost of properties and eviction. In Matthew Desmond's argument against raising wages, he states that though raising wages is a factor to remedy poverty, it is only a third of the contributing factor and that the leading cause of poverty is eviction, rising cost of housing and policies of the housing authorities.
Matthew Desmond is the coauthor of two books on race and the author of the award-winning book "On the Fireline." Also, he is the editor of a collection of studies on severe deprivation in America. He is the codirector of the Justice and Poverty Project and is the John L Loeb Associate Professor of social sciences at Harvard University.
According to Desmond, eviction is one of the leading causes of poverty, not wages. Eviction of tenants by landlords causes housing instability which intends leads to losing of properties, neighborhoods, school, home, public accommodation and employment instability. Families that lose such factors goes through years of hardships from hunger to enduring the cold weather. That lead them to move into substandard houses, undesirable places of the city and poorer neighborhoods. Since these places are not in good …show more content…

Most renters spend much of their income on housing and over one out of five people spend half of their income on rent. Since legal assistance has reduced, low-income families quickly evicted, and attorneys represent most landlords in court and renters have no attorneys. Another factor that causes poverty is the rise in the cost of living for food, gas and phone bills, and other regular expenses that go high when wages increased. When that happens, the low-income families get less return on taxes, education, and mortgages leading to smaller income and empty

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