Minimum Wage Thesis

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1. The main purpose of this article is______. Try and state the author’s intent in writing the article. What was he/she trying to accomplish?
The main purpose of this article is to examine and illustrate the effect of minimum wages on poverty in Canada. By doing this study, Campolieti et al. hoped to establish whether a minimum wage increase would benefit anyone, or if it would end up turning into more of a problem than a solution. Since longer run effects are hard to analyze and essentially beyond the parameters of this study, he aimed to look at whether there is a positive effect on raising the wages of some of the working poor, and if it is offset by any adverse employment effects. To do this, it analyzes not only one province, but many, …show more content…

Would it increase the wages and income of the working poor? Or, would it result in the reduction of jobs and money that goes to the poorer class?
3. The most important information in this article is______. What were the key facts the author gathered for this article?
Of the people who would be affected by an increase in minimum wage, approximately ¼ of those are classified as poor. While this would be great news in the fight to lessen poverty, it is offset by the fact that those same exact people are the ones who would be the ones experiencing the negatives job effects, nearly half of those losing their jobs would be poor people. Not only that, but it was found that only roughly 30% of the earning gains from the increase would actually go to those who were poor, the other 70% of course being those in the upper classes.
4. The information in this article is seen as credible because_____. Evaluate the accuracy, relevance, and completeness of the …show more content…

Minimum wage refers t the hourly wage which an employer must pay their employee for their work. Overall, poverty means the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support. Then, Canada, whose capital is Ottawa, is the country to the north of the United States that is second largest by land area measure. Historically, to fix the poverty problem, the solution has always been some form of minimum wage legislation, or some kind of promised legislation. Clinton said it would “raise the living standard of 12 million hard-working Americans”, and Obama also promoted it while on the campaign trail, saying “people who work full time should not live in poverty”. Also, for this study, the term “poor” has been expanded to include the “near poor”, which are families whose income falls between the poverty line and 1 ½ times the poverty line. This was done because it extended the scope of who would be classified as poor to those who have low incomes but aren’t quite poor, as well as allows for there to be a higher threshold when it comes to defining

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