My experience with raising the minimum wageLets look at it this way, in many places 7$'s a hour is minimum wage, where as people have to work 2-3 jobs to live off of that, you pay people 15$'s a hour and suddenly they only need 1 job at half the hours, and look suddenly more jobs open up. Lets also look at it this way, there are many businesses that can't just cut work hours, there is a minimum needed, some might where they can, but at the same time people will need less jobs. It's not suddenly there is just as many jobs and man hours of work needed, raise minimum wage and both can go down without harm.
When I was a teenager, I got a job at McDonalds, I worked a whole year and got a 10% raise, and found myself in a position where I was able to afford more due to the increased buying power one hour of work provided me. Then minimum wage went up 10%. Now did I get a 10% raise? No! I worked there a whole year and was right back at minimum wage; then when all the prices went up (always happens when minimum wage increases) I found my increased buying power went away, so the only thing increasing minimum wage accomplished was to put more people like me on minimum wage. Raising minimum wage didn’t increase the buying power of an hours work for anybody, it only decreased the buying power for people like me who previously barely rose above minimum wage.
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