Why Should You Increase Minimum Wage?

Why Should You Increase Minimum Wage?

The cries and complaints are monotonous; “Minimum wage is not a realistic wage for living” and “it is not sufficient pay for the work being completed.” The enduring and constant irritated murmur of the workforce to raise the current minimum wage is an impossible battle that workers refuse to acknowledge as impractical. Raising minimum wage is a misguided illusion, in reality it destroys jobs, increases the number of welfare recipients and ruins human capital.
Raising minimum wage is an action ideally designed to better facilitate the working-poor, however, the opposite effect is achieved. The minimum wage workforce is typically composed of the young, the financially disfavored, and the relatively unskilled. When minimum wage is raised jobs are actually destroyed, increased wages “saw off the first rung of the employment ladder” and obliterate all entry-level jobs. Without entry-level jobs those poor, young and unskilled employees are left vying and trying to contend for positions for which they are unqualified because they lack the valuable skills and familiarity and overall know-how, thus prolonging the ancient catch twenty-two of the inability to get hired due to lack of experience and a lack of experience due to the inability to get hired.
Nearly everyone has had a minimum wage paying job at one point and it is impossible to categorize the workers seeking minimum wage employment positions as they are incredibly diverse and come from all walks of life. It is undeniable however, that many welfare recipients are among those in search of minimum wage positions. Those advocates of wage increases often argue that welfare recipients will greatly benefit from the increase because it will entice them to go out and find work suitable for their education or experience levels. There are many flaws with this argument, first being the previous argument that the entry-level jobs have been obliterated and there are very few positions for which the recipients qualify....

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