Essay on Unemployment and Minimum Wage Welcome

Submitted By bubble2709
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Minimum Wage
Welcome to McDonald’s can I take your order? That’s what most people in America are saying. Imagine going into work every day knowing that you’re barely making ends meet, and then having to put on a forged smile, pretty miserable right? Thinking to one when my misery will end? That’s why I feel as if the government should get involved and make a law raising the minimum wage.
Primarily, last year President Obama Stated, “No one who works full time in America should have to live in poverty”. The minimum wage must be raised because the cost of living has gone up drastically. 73% of our population lives in poverty. Do we really want our economy to stay at a low point when we can simply higher this rate and become a country known prosperity?
Following, many people that live on minimum wage spend all of the money that they make. If the minimum wage increase it would be good for the economy because people would make more money, and when you make more money you spend more money. It will also lower the unemployment rates since more people would want to work for 10$ than 7.25$ an hour. Imagine how much money our