Pros And Cons Of The Minimum Wage

There have been many arguments going on whether minimum wage should be increased. This action has its pros and cons. It can benefit many families as living cost has gone up, price for education is rising, and college students are in huge debts. Minimum wage has been around for ages. Minimum wage employment was a temporary condition for people to earn little payment until they moved on to a better paying job. These jobs helped build résumés, experiences, and skills for a better career. As years went on that idea began to demolish into a job that many families can get to survive and pay for their expenses. It has become the easy way for people to get easy pay.

The cost for education is a lot more than it used to be. Everyone would think getting an education is easy so you wouldn’t need a minimum wage job, but it isn’t College tuition has gone up and so have private schools and catholic schools. Some private schools are at

They may argue that jobs and benefits could be cut and could reduced desire for career advancement, but they are wrong. People get laid off from jobs everyday due to money budgets, lack of professionalism, or illegal actions. Companies do what’s best for their investment regardless, if minimum wage goes up or not. Whether they were to lay off people there will be extra workload divided among the employees left which is more than they are getting paid for. That could lead to the company having to pay their employees more.

All in all minimum wage should be increased. Every decisions made by the federal government has its disadvantages. What action doesn’t have its disadvantage? Raising minimum wage benefits majority of the population and that’s what everyone should be thinking about. This has been an argument for years and some states in the United States has raised their minimum wage, all we need is for other states to do the same, so everyone can benefit from it