How To Raise Minimum Wage

Quan and Rosa have a family of 2 children . Quan is a chief at Denny's and Rosa is a waitress and a cash register. The amount of money they make is about 8 dollars per hour. Quan and rosa would like to afford a house but they can't because they need to strain their budget. Raising the minimum wage would hurt our country and economy because of the increasing unemployment and increasing the price of service.
One reason we should not get minimum wage wages is if the wages increasing less people will not have money or insurance and health benefits because wages will increase less money , the cost there will be less unemployment and the worker will decrease more. we shouldn't raise the minimum wage is because it would raise food they will not be able to afford anything (Smith pg 3) Another reason why minimum wages should not be unemployed because it will raise and increase the price of goods. $2.85 is the increasing of the minimum wage, that hurts the food prices. so if that's the case why raise the minimum wage only $2.85 if the food price is going to increase , when they’re already expensive.

This is exposed by Patricia Smith in the article Time Magazine for raise Patricia Smith states that economic policy institute estimates that an increase of $2.85 in the minimum wage would boost wages for about 28 million workers and would mean an additional $6.000 of income a year for those working full time. (Smith 3) however , it can be clearly shown that minimum wage should not be increased. My three example is the food prices would be higher . Workers get paid less than they get now. Because of Family’s minimum wages are decreasing then what they