what are some topics related to minimum wage?

Question

trying to find some good key words to research for a paper...opinions about if minimum wage should go up and why would aslo be appreciated, especially with some sort of references to back up your answer....

Answer 1

Minimum wages is a double edged sword that helps and hurts workers.

It helps workers that are in those types of jobs and cannot get other jobs....then the gov't says these workers must be paid a certain amount of money.

It also discriminates against them because it makes employers discriminate against those that need the jobs the most, less educated or experienced. You do not need a degree to know this fact...it is something that makes sense.

If you were an employee and was forced to pay somebody a minimum wage of $7.69 and could choose between two employees, one that did not graduate from H.S. and another one that got an AA degree from a junior college....well, it's not rocket science to figure out which person gets the job....

It is the person that is better able to compete for it.

But if you need some type of reference:

Thomas Sowell's book called "Basic Economics"

I did a paper on this and read some good books for my English 102 paper titled: "Minimum wages; Do they help or hurt"

One of the books was: Nickle and Dimed,

Nickel and Dimed
On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

A Metropolitan Book
Current Affairs
5 1/2 x 8 1/4; 256 pp.
0-8050-6388-9/hardcover
$23.00US/$34.95CAN
May 2001

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"Barbara Ehrenreich is the Thorstein Veblen of the twenty-first century. And this book is one of her very best -- breathtaking in its scope, insight, humor, and passion."
--Arlie Russell Hochschild

Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- could be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered as a woefully inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce. So began a grueling, hair raising, and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America.

Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, Ehrenreich worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.

Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. You will never see anything -- from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal -- quite the same way again.

"I was absolutely knocked out by Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable odyssey. She has accomplished what no contemporary writer has even attempted -- to be that 'nobody' who barely subsists on her essential labors. Nickel and Dimed is a stiff punch in the nose to those righteous apostles of 'welfare reform.' Not only is it must reading but it's mesmeric. You can't put the damn thing down. Bravo!" --Studs Terkel

"Entering the world of service work, Barbara Ehrenreich folded clothes at Wal-Mart, waitressed, washed dishes in a nursing home, and scrubbed floors on her hands and knees. Her account of those experiences is unforgettable -- heart-wrenching, infuriating, funny, smart, and empowering. Few readers will be untouched by the shameful realities that underlie America's economy. Vintage Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed will surely take its place among the classics of underground reportage." --Juliet Schor

"With this book Barbara Ehrenreich takes her place among such giants of investigative journalism as George Orwell and Jack London. Ehrenreich's courage and empathy bring us face-to-face with the fate of millions of American workers today." --Frances Fox Piven

"Drunk on dot-coms and day trading, America has gone blind to the downside of its great prosperity. In Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich expertly peels away the layers of self-denial, self-interest, and self-protection that separate the rich from the poor, the served from the servers, the housed from the homeless. This brave and frank book is ultimately a challenge to create a less divided society." --Naomi Klein

"A brilliant on-the-job report from the dark side of the boom. No one since H. L. Mencken has assailed the smug rhetoric of prosperity with such scalpel-like precision and ferocious wit." --Mike Davis

"Millions of Americans suffer daily trying to make ends meet. Barbara Ehrenreich's book forces people to acknowledge the average worker's struggle, and promises to be extremely influential." --Lynn Woolsey, member of congress

"One of the great American social critics has written an unforgettable memoir of what it was like to work in some of America's least attractive jobs. No one who reads this book will be able to resist its power to make them see the world in a new way." --Mitchell Duneier

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Blood Rites; The Worst Years of Our Lives (a New York Times bestseller); Fear o Falling, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; and eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida.




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Answer 2

The united u . s . a .'s prevalent announcement of Human Rights provides everyone the right to article 25. less than it you're entitled to "...a commonplace of residing adequate..." and so on. also John Kenneth Galbraith economist and presidential consultant wrote many economics books that didnt settle for that leaving voters the only component that they had to maintain dignity and that became money. In his e book A adventure by economic Time he disregarded the ideas-set that direct subsidys to human beings became how you are able to advance the negative out of poverty. both the authors said are Canadian. John Peters Humphrey became the vital drafter of the 1948 document the prevalent announcement of Human Rights.

Answer 3

THINGS TO CONSIDER MINIMUM WAGE AT 5.15 PER HOUR SINGLE 0 DEP WORK 40 HRS =206.00 PER WEEK - S.S 12.77 -M.C. 2.99 FED TAX 16.00 TAKE HOME 174.24. COST TO EMPLOYER 221.76 + WORK COMP & EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE+++ COST OF BASED OFF PAYROLL
MOVE MINIMUM WAGE TO SAY 6.00 PER HOUR SINGLE 0 DEP.
WORK 10 HRS=240.00 PER WEEK - S.S.14.88 - M.C. 3.48 - FED TAX 22.00
TAKE HOME 199.64. COST TO EMPLOYER 258.36 + WORK COMP+UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE+++
EMPLOYEE TAKE HOME 25.40 MORE WK S.S. 4.22 MORE WK M.C .98 MORE WK WITH INCREASED COST TO EMPLOYER WHAT DO YOU THINK PRICES OF PRODUCTS WILL GO TO HOW FAST WILL THIS EMPLOYEE INCREASE BE GONE + MORE POLITICS LOVE TO USE MINIMUM WAGE FOR VOTES PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR TAX & INSURANCE INCREASE. MORE TAX MONEY FOR THEM TO SPEND IF THEY WANTED TO HELP LOW INCOME WAGE EMPLOYEES ELIMATE FED TAXES ON MINIMUM WAGE EARNERS 16.00 MORE ON PAY CHECK REDUCE S.S. & M.C. ON MINIMUM WAGE EARNERS 14.83 MORE ON PAY CHECK THIS IS 30.83 INCREASE FOR LOW INCOME WORKER. THERE WOULD BE NO INCREASE COST TO EMPLOYERS COST OF GOODS WOULD NOT HAVE TO BE INCREASED TO MAKE UP DIFFERENCE .
SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDI CARE, FEDERAL TAXES, WORK COMP INSURANCE, & IN SOME STATES GENERAL LIB INSURANCE PREMIUM COST IS PERCENTIAGE OF TOTAL PAYROLL. ALL THE ABOVE GET INCREASE IN FUNDS. ACCORDING TO EMPLOYERS TAX GUIDE CIRCULAR E) IF A SINGLE EMPLOYEE EARNS 60.00 IN 1 WEEK THEY OWE 1.00 IN FED TAXES & 4.32 IN S.S.& M.C. SO I ASK HOW IS RASING MINIMUN WAGE GOING TO HELP ANYONE OTHER THAN TAXES & INSURANCE
SOMETHING TO THING ABOUT WHY ARE OUR POLITIANS CONSTANTLY CUTTING FUNDS FROM THE AMERICAN WORKER BENFITS SUCH AS S.S. & M.C. THAT THIS WORKER HAS PAID IN TO. THESE PROGRAMS SHOULD BE FUNDED IN FULL BEFORE ANY TAX DOLLARS CAN BE SPENT OUTSIDE THE USA ON ANY PROGRAMS.

Answer 4

effect on small business
cost of health care/insurance

Answer 5

Keywords: poverty level, cost of living

Answer 6

um, poverty, bad credit, reposession, bankruptcy, Wal-Mart....