Many of the facts I looked over in this session isn’t new to me. Anyone getting paid minimum wage will not make ends meet. Minimum workers consist of waiting, cashier, retail, clerk, and working at fast food joints flipping burgers. Not until last year, Federal minimum wage increased to $7.25. Most workers making minimum wages are to believe adults without a high degree/ college diploma and females.
I watched the video on Ulearn/Youtube about minimum wage where the lady asks you, what can you buy for $2.13? The only thing I could think of was one or two sandwich/burgers from a dollar menu at a fast food restaurant. A gallon of gas is more than $2.50!! $2.13 is not enough. It’s ridiculous that waiters and waitresses used to make $2.13 an hour. These waiters and waitresses rely on tip wages which isn’t too bad depending on location and who your client is, but what’s so surprising to me is most of them have to split their tips with busboys and other workers by 5%. It’s horrible to believe the working class could live off of minimum wages. How could they survive when expenses are increasing but not there income?
Many believe if maybe we just raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour, it would help the working class manage their time and money spent. It could maybe even help thousands of children and adult out of poverty, but realistically, most businesses won’t increase minimum wages because it could hurt their own pockets to pay more to each individual and maybe cause unemployment. It’s also hard to find jobs for typical American workers because we also have immigrants to compete with in getting hired. Companies who need workers without little skills are most likely to hire immigrants willing to work at a lower cost and since most immigrant don’t have documents, they are least likely to file law suits if anything thing was to happen.
Believe it or not, poverty will never go away and it will always be a problematic as long as someone is benefiting from it.
You are right most jobs pay the minimum wage. The sad reality is that if companies paid their workers more (which they should) then they would pass on the cost to the consumer which in turn will raise prices and we will again have the same dilemma! The main problem here is that companies, particularly large companies will do anything to get the most profits, even if that means sacrificing integrity and the well being of society as a whole.
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