The minimum wage was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938 at .25 cents or
today market 4 Dollars. In its life time minimum wage haven’t been over 11, dollars an
hour in today’s market making the jump to 15 just seem unreasonable. The problem with
minimum wage guaranteed you being pay not a job, rising can very well make it harder for
the new work force to come in and get that first job. A kid just getting out for school trying
to get a summer job would happy take less than minimum wage if it means having a job or
not, some coming out of high school with no job skill and no work experience may find it
harder to find a job with the minimum wage being so high .
Being replace by machines s has already happen and is continuing, McDonalds is
replacing cashers with touch screen. They claim it would be cheater then paying 15 hours.
McDonalds, is the world’s second largest private employer just behind Walmart with 1.9
million employees, 1.5 million of whom work for the franchises, without casher that
thousands without jobs that not good for the economy.
Making more an hour doesn’t always mean more a week. Company have cut hours, cut
training and give more work with less hours. Some people would get less from government
assistance when minimum wage to up to the point they make less at the end. Just raising
the wage to 10.10 over 1.7 million American would no longer be on assistance programs,