Potential Research Topic-Minimum Wage

This topic is important to me because as a teen who was recent introduced to the working world I think minimum wage is very important. I think it’s very fair that there is a set amount everyone should make. It’s unfair to pay people less then what they should earn. I think minimum wage is very important and I’m glad it just got increased. People rely on their jobs to supply food and shelter to their families and by raising the minimum wage it makes things easier for people.

Source Citation- "Minimum Wage." Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection. Detroit: Gale, 2014. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 9 Oct. 2015

Summary-This article is about minimum wage and how its been increased over the years. over the years minimum wages have increased and now people want to raise it to $15.Some states such as Seattle and San Francisco have raised minimum wage standards to $15 per hour and in September New York approved $15 per hour for fast-food workers. Protests for minimum wage increases continue on across the nation for low wage workers.

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In 1896 New Zealand was the first country to establish a minimum wage law. In 1912 Massachusetts became the first state in the United States to pass a minimum wage law.

Congress increased the minimum wage in 1949, 1956, 1961, 1968, 1974, 1991, 1996, and 1997. From 1997 to 2007 the federal minimum wage stayed at $5.15 an hour.

About 75.3 million people ages sixteen and over worked for hourly wages in 2008, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). People earning the federal minimum wage or less totaled 2.2 million in 2008, or 3 percent of all hourly workers. People who earn minimum wage are usually young.

Questions- How many people are not getting paid minimum wage?

At places like restaurants do employees earn less because they get tips?




A word I don't understand-Proponents


What is stopping you from understanding the word- I've never heard of this word before

Definition-A person who puts forward a proposition or proposal.

Question you can pose to your peers in a discussion-Do you think minimum wage should be raised,and if it was raised where would we get the money from?