Minimum Wage

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of the wage scale. This however is not true for it has been shown that only 11.7% of teenagers in families with above-average incomes would benefit from a higher .
The opponents of a increase say that if the is increased many people will lose their jobs. Because employers can only afford to pay so much for labor, if they have to pay a higher wage per worker, than they will hire fewer workers. Studies suggest that for every 10 percent increase in the , a minimum of 100,000 jobs are lost. This information shows that a increase would hurt many of the very people it would be designed to help. They also say that an increase is not currently necessary to counter the effects of inflation and that the current is sufficient to keep lower class people at decent standard of living.
Personally I think that any increase in the is a good thing. An increase in the will usually trickle up, raising the wages of those who work for above the . This would help lots of people. If ...

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