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Persuasive Speech on an Increase of the Federal Minimum Wage to 15 Dollars.

Workplace insanity Make it extra affluent to generate new employment, and you will

have less of them, famously remarked Mike Durant. Many low-wage employees have become

interested in "Raise the Wage" initiatives (Allegretto, et al,2018).Those who favor this attempt,

on the other hand, have no clue what the economic repercussions might be if it was successful.

Some communities, notably Seattle, have at present elevated their minimum earnings to $15 per

hour.

Advocates for an increase in the minimum wage argue that the increase should be enacted

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at the federal level. This, however, will have far-reaching and severe financial implications for

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the company. As a result of the Great Recession, the federal minimum wage has indeed been in

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upshot since 2009(Allegretto, et al, 2018).Its objective is to decrease insufficiency and also
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ensure that workers are remunerated fairly. The minimum wage may indeed be beneficial to

individuals and indeed the budget as a complete, but it can also be disadvantageous to our
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country's finances at times.

The federal management ought to not permit this to happen, but should instead educate

people about the negative consequences and complexity that an advanced minimum
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remuneration, particularly one as great as $15 per hour, may bring (Allegretto, et al, 2018).Job

loss, firm collapse, increased consumer expenses, and diminished demand for unskilled labor are
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just a few of the issues that may occur if the federal minimum wage is raised as expected. Even
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though it might seem that raising the federal minimum remuneration will aid pull communities

out of deficiency, this is not the case.

Ever since the Prodigious Recession, there appears to be a minimum wage in America,

but it has altered 22 stretches. Many people feel that the minimum wage ought to continue at

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$7.25 per hour, as it has since 2009 (McKenzie, 2018). Others, on the other hand, believe that

the minimum earnings ought to be $15.00 for them to live at ease. Individuals assume that

raising the minimum wage will benefit them, but it will damage more people than help. Society’s

will no more be impoverished if the minimum wage in America is raised to $9.00, restoring the

economy to balance.

If America increases the minimum remuneration to $9.00, it will indeed assist individuals

in necessity or who are impoverished, but it will have no negative consequences for those who

are working. Unemployment would soar if the minimum wage is raised to $15.00(McKenzie,

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will stay destitute, vagrant, or on the threshold of being homeless if the minimum wage

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A $15 minimum wage would generate $107 billion in more revenue for individuals by

2025, as well as benefits for communities around the country (McKenzie, 2018). Because
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underpaid workers spend a substantial amount of their extra wages, this pay increase will
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contribute to overall economic stimulation, resulting in more firm activity and job creation.

A $15 raise would help close the wage gap between low-income employees and those
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earning the average wage, especially across gender and race lines. In the years following the late

1960s minimum wage increases, black-white income disparities were reduced by 20%, whereas
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the inability to correctly raise wages after 1979 is responsible for at least half of the increase in
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disparities among both females at the middle and bottom of the wealth inequality after 1979.
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References

Allegretto, S., Godoey, A., Nadler, C., & Reich, M. (2018). The new wave of local minimum

wage policies: Evidence from six cities. CWED Policy Report.

McKenzie, M. (2018). The erosion of minimum wage policy in Australia and labor’s shrinking

share of total income. Journal of Australian Political Economy, the, (81), 52-77.

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