...issue of minimum wage” discusses the minimum wage being brought up to a total of fifteen dollars. “Sanders and O’Malley have thrown their support behind a nation movement to set the floor at $15 an hour.” But Hillary Clinton “did not specifically endorse their goal,” of bringing it up to fifteen dollars. Even though, an almost double the amount of minimum wage would be great for workers, it could potentially keep businesses from not making any money. In the article, it states, “If the minimum wage is set too high, the expense of hiring additional workers could keep businesses from making any money… A $15 hourly minimum could set back the very people it is supposed to help, by making it harder for them to find work.” Which is a good reason as to why not set the minimum this high....
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...Whether to raise or to keep the minimum wage where it is? Is an issue that affects millions of people; According to the two articles, the first one “Let’s make the minimum wage a living wage” the author Mr. Knight’s is in favor of raising the minimum wage, while the second one “Keep the minimum wage where it is“ Ms. Steel’s is against. Although, Ms. Steele’s article disagrees with raising the minimum wage, Mr. Knight’s provides more evidence that is better supported. To begin, Mr. Knight’s article includes multiple specific studies. For example, he used a study that stated, “A 2011 study from the CFRB showed that increasing the minimum wage lead to higher consumer spending, especially on car purchase. The study also showed that every dollar...
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...PART I INTRODUCTION: MARKETS AND PRICES CHAPTER 1 PRELIMINARIES TEACHING NOTES The first two chapters reacquaint students with the microeconomics that they learned in their introductory course: Chapter 1 focuses on the general subject of economics, while Chapter 2 develops supply and demand analysis. The use of examples in Chapter 1 facilitates students’ complete understanding of abstract economic concepts. Examples in this chapter discuss markets for prescription drugs (Section 1.2), introduction of a new automobile (Section 1.4), design of automobile emission standards (Section 1.4), the minimum wage (Section 1.3), the market for sweeteners (Section 1.3), and real and nominal prices of eggs and education (Section 1.3). Discussing some of these, or another, example is a useful way to review some important economic concepts such as scarcity, making tradeoffs, building economic models to explain how consumers and firms make decisions, and the distinction between competitive and non-competitive markets. Parts I and II of the text assume competitive markets, market power is discussed in Part III, and some consequences of market power are discussed in Part IV of the text. Review Question (2) illustrates the difference between positive and normative economics and provides for a productive class discussion. Other examples for discussion are available in Kearl, Pope, Whiting, and Wimmer, “A Confusion of Economists,” American Economic Review (May 1979). The...
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...KEVIN RYEN Micro Economics Minimum Wage State the purpose of this legal price, assess its impact on the market for labor, and evaluate the extent to which it achieves its purpose? The minimum wage is the lowest rate at which a worker can be played. There she minimum wage laws pegged to hourly, daily and even monthly rates, although U.S. law is pegged to an hourly wage. Also, a minimum wage law usually makes it illegal for a person to sell his labor for less than the minimum wage rate The general purpose of the minimum wage is to guarantee a living wage to all workers who work a standard period of time, whatever that might be. In theory, any labor who works 40 houses a week on minimum wage should be at or above the poverty level line. However, the minimum wage has not kept up pace with the inflation in the United States, and the cost of living increases more than the wage increases that are given and that way behind the standards Minimum wage laws were first started in Australia and New Zealand in the 1890s.The first minimum wage to be law was in Massachusetts in the 1912, but it only applied to children and women. The federal minimum wage was established in 1938, by the Fair Labor Standards Act. Initially set at 25 cents 0.an hour, the wage has been raised periodically to reflect changes in inflation and productivity. That minimum wage often involve protracted political battles,” Did you know that one in five...
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...Should UK’s National Minimum Wage be increased? "I think Britain can afford a higher minimum wage. I think we have worked hard to get to this point and we can start to enjoy the fruits of all that hard work." This was said by George Osborne the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Second Lord of the Treasury of the United Kingdom. George Osborne has signalled that he is willing to raise the national minimum wage from £6.31-an-hour to £7-an-hour, an above-inflation increase. The National Minimum Wage was set up in 1998 to protect low-paid workers; however increase in the UK National Minimum Wage will cause more harm to the economy, employment sector and even the society than the proposed good. Students will leave their primary aim of getting educated to go in search of jobs; employers will employ less number of people thereby increasing unemployment; the economy will suffer lack of growth that might get Britain into bigger debts and probably a recession. Researchers from the Respected Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said Britain has more teenage drop-outs than in most other countries. Almost one in five young people in the UK are not educated to A-level standard which is a shocking figure. Increasing the national minimum wage will encourage high school student to drop-out and go in search of jobs. What does the future hold for the upcoming generation? The society of today is looking to this upcoming generation to...
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...indefinitely on a job that pays $7.25 an hour? That is the national minimum wage set by the Fair Labor Standards Act in 2009. Projecting this to a 40-hour work week over 50 weeks it comes to a total of $14,500 a year. This is just above the U.S poverty level for a family of 2, but below the poverty level of $22,050 for a family of 4. Despite the fact that the minimum wage has been increased 3 times since 2007, it is almost $3.00 below what it was nearly forty years ago in purchasing power. It has not kept up with inflation. If it had, the minimum wage would be $10.74 per hour. In other words, the minimum wage is a far cry from being a living wage which is a wage that is high enough for fulltime workers to provide a decent life for themselves and their families. For the benefit of American citizens and the economy, the minimum wage must be increased! Those opposed to an increase in the minimum wage focus on a number of assumptions suggesting it would be a bad idea. Under close examination, all of their arguments fall apart. One of the main arguments for not raising the minimum wage is that it is a job killer. The reasoning is the increase in salary decreases profits and results in cutbacks in hiring. However, a study at the University of California, Berkeley, has shown that raising the minimum wage does not have a negative effect on employment. An analysis of those states that independently increased the minimum wage “had job growth slightly above the national average.” Another...
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...THE LIVING WAGE AND ITS EFFECT ON THE ECONOMY INTRODUCTION The topic of our study investigates the living wage and its effect on the economy. A survey will be distributed asking questions about wages, cost of living, and making ends meet. Our conclusions and recommendations on the topic of living wages will result from this survey. BACKGROUND The definition of living wage is “a term used to describe the minimum hourly wage necessary for a person to achieve some specific standard of living. This means a person working forty hours a week, ”should be able to afford housing, food, utilities, transportation, health care and recreation” at a basic level. (Wikipedia.org). Currently, a living wage is set by local municipalities based on a local cost of living assessment, and applies only to government employees and/or contractors. This is different from minimum wage, which is set by law through the Federal government. The federal minimum wage is the minimum amount that a worker can be paid an hour and this law applies to nearly all workers. In Michigan, the minimum wage is currently $7.40 an hour. Minimum wage does not always meet the requirements of a living wage. (Wikipedia.org). For example, in 2008, East Pointe, MI paid its employees a living wage of $10.40/hr , while Detroit, MI paid its employees and contractors $8.25/hr, both with health benefits in comparison to $7.40/hr Federal minimum wage.(laborstudies.wayne.edu/ According to the Economic Policy Institute...
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...ENG 111 10 March 2014 The Reasons Why Federal Minimum Wage Is Raised U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order on February 12, 2014 to raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $10.10 an hour starting next year and encouraged employers nationwide to increase wages for their workers. The president also announced during his State of the Union address last month that he intended to take executive action to raise wages for federal contract workers (Mason). Order to understand this issue, we are going to understand what the Federal Minimum Wage is and when started it in the U.S.A. According to the United States Department of Labor (USDL), early in the administration of the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA), it started to be apparent that the use of the legal minimum wage was prone to producing undesirable efforts upon the financial systems of Puerto Rico and also the Virgin Island if put on all their covered industries. As a result, on June 26, 1940, an amendment was passed prescribing the establishment of special industry committees to find out, and problem through wage orders, the minimum, wage levels relevant in Puerto Rico and also the Virgin islands. The rates established by industry committees might be under the legal rates relevant elsewhere within the United States. In 1949, the minimum wage was elevated from 40 cents an hour or so to 75 cent an hour so for those employees and minimum wage coverage was extended to incorporate employees in mid-air...
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...obesity, and the minimum wage Chad Cotti a, Nathan Tefft b,* a b Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI 54901, USA Department of Economics, Bates College, Lewiston, ME 04240, USA A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received 1 August 2011 Received in revised form 22 March 2012 Accepted 9 April 2012 Available online 15 April 2012 Recent proposals argue that a fast food tax may be an effective policy lever for reducing population weight. Although there is growing evidence for a negative association between fast food prices and weight among adolescents, less is known about adults. That any measured relationship to date is causal is unclear because there has been no attempt to separate variation in prices on the demand side from that on the supply side. We argue that the minimum wage is an exogenous source of variation in fast food prices, conditional on income and employment. In two-stage least-squares analyses, we find little evidence that fast food price changes affect adult BMI or obesity prevalence. Results are robust to including controls for area and time fixed effects, area time trends, demographic characteristics, substitute prices, numbers of establishments and employment in related industries, and other potentially related factors. ß 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: I18 J38 H20 Keywords: Fast food prices Obesity Body mass index Minimum wage 1. Introduction ...
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...Smith, Advertising Department Supervisor From : Jason Vu, Advertising Associate Date : March 24, 2010 Re : New Approach for Extra Income As a consequence of the recent increase in minimum wages, there is an increase in the discretionary income of our current advertising base. People with more money tend to spend more. Our current advertising approach does not take this into consideration. This is a proposal to modify the approach in our advertising strategy so that we can take advantage of the coming shift in our advertising base and enhance our advertising revenue by expanding our potential client base. The rationale behind the proposal and its implementation will be elaborated in the following report. When people have achieved basic survival needs such as food, shelter, and relatively secured physical and financial safety, they seek to attain things that they haven’t yet possess, such as status symbols or a sense of belonging to an exclusive group. If we can encourage our existing advertisement consumers to spend their extra income, hence shift the demand of our current advertising base to consume more upscale products, then we stand to gain an expanded and more profitable set of ads buyers. This project is a market study in potential new products in which ads targeted for the new minimum wage consumers segment can be created. This project will determine the current advertising consumers’ income. The result of this project will be used in devising a strategy to create and...
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...The first topic I have chosen is “Should regulations for home schools be changed.” I chose this topic because there has been debates for years questioning the effectiveness of children whose parents have chosen to home school them. Excessive budget cuts to educational programs and overcrowded classrooms have led many parents to homeschooling. While many individuals feel that home school hinders students from learning at their grade level which ultimately withdraws social interaction with fellow peers, other individuals feel that home schools provide much needed structure that focuses on the child. The audience for this topic would be parents of school aged children who are thinking of homeschooling their children. The preliminary thesis statement for this topic is “State regulations for home schools should be changed to ensure at-risk children aren’t neglected, students are socially active in the community, and educators have access to adequate funding.” The two sources I plan to use are HSLDA and As Home School Numbers Rise, Regulations Fall an article from The Kansas City Star. The second topic I have chosen is “Should minors who commit violent crimes be tried as adults.” Chose this topic because violent crimes committed by juveniles is on the rise; and many of these crimes are being given a slop on the wrist because of the minors age at the time. Many of these juveniles become repeat offenders because the judicial system has not held them accountable for their actions....
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... (History Of Minimum Wage) President Franklin D. Roosevelt characterized the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), as “the most far-reaching, far-sighted program for the benefit of workers ever adopted in this or any other country.” A law drafted by Senator Hugo Black of Alabama and signed into law in June 1938, the FLSA was designed to “put a ceiling over hours and a floor under wages” by establishing an eventual maximum 40 weekly work hours. Henderson, David R. "Raising the Minimum Wage Will Not Reduce Poverty." Poverty. Ed. Viqi Wagner. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2007. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "The Negative Effects of the Minimum...
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...FREE MARKET ECONOMY According to Pmiranda2857 (2009), the free market economy is an economy which promotes competitions between businesses. Basically, without this market system, consumers would not have a say in price determination of goods and services. Some consumers in some African countries have suffered with regards to pricing. According to Baye (2010), consumers do not have a say in the price determination of some services because the providers of such services enjoy the market monopoly. However, the free market economy is the best and only realistic alternative for determining the allocation of resources in an economy because of the following: i. Competition (Pmiranda2857, 2009; Rothbard, n.d.). Without competition, the free market economy will not be what it is supposed to be. The competition between the producers is the driving force in this market, providing the consumers with the most favourable product at the most affordable price. According to Pmiranda2857 (2009), a new product is priced high in the market. After sometime, the major competitors in the market begin to imitate the innovation in the market. This leads to price reduction in the once expensive product since new and similar products begin to emerge. Pricing therefore becomes a sensitive issue in competition. Rothbard (n.d.) also concluded that competition leads to the betterment in the standards of the market competitors compared to other markets. ii. It promotes entrepreneurship and innovation (Pmiranda2857...
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...Mrs. Bailey Speech-2 8 January 2014 Bibliography Carney, Timothy P. "Increasing the Minimum Wage Favors Megastores Like Wal-Mart." The Minimum Wage. Ed. Noah Berlatsky. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Wal-Mart, Costco Back Minimum Wage That Could Hurt Small Rivals." Washington Examiner 20 Apr. 2007. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 16 Dec. 2013. De Coster, Karen. "Wal-Mart Benefits Americans." Ethics. Ed. Laurie DiMauro and Tina Grant. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2006. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "The Case for Wal-Mart." www.mises.org. 2003. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 16 Dec. 2013. Longo, Don. "Wal-Mart Supports Communities." Are Chain Stores Ruining America? Ed. Kirsten Engdahl. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2007. At Issue. Rpt. from "Fighting a Bad Rap: Wal-Mart's Positive Contributions to Retailing and Local Communities Are Often Overlooked by Sensation-seeking Press and Special Interests." Retail Merchandiser (2004). Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 16 Dec. 2013. Longworth, Richard. "The Urban Poor Need Supermarkets, Not Urban Agriculture." Urban Agriculture. Ed. Nancy Dziedzic and Lynn Zott. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Forget Urban Farms. We Need a Wal-Mart." Good Inc. 2011. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 16 Dec. 2013. Vedder, Richard, and Wendell Cox. "Wal-Mart's Anti-Union Business Model Is Good for Workers." The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big-Box Stores Benefit Consumers...
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