Minimum Wage
BY: Lily Hess
Should minimum wage be raised?
I think that minimum wage should be raised because I believe it will overall help people that are tight on money. I think with raising minimum wage will help fit the prices and were they have come to now.
1938-2012
Congressional Democrats are pushing a bill that would gradually raised the federal minimum to $10.10
Nineteen states have set their own, higher minimums
$7.25 in Missouri to $9.19 in Washington
some even higher
Distribution of Minimum Wage Workers by Age Group
Just over half (50.6%) of the 3.55 million U.S. workers were at or below the federal minimum last year are age 16-24
After the video
The one thing that shocked me is how much those people are sacrificing/ doing just to be able to get enough money for dinner or to be able to live somewhere. Watching the couple live on minimum wage seems like hard work, they started to look run down and tired.