The Effects Of Higher Minimum Wage

The Effects of a Higher Minimum Wage

When I was eleven years old my parents told me that they could not afford to buy me new school clothes that year. So, in my desperation for some new school clothes I started working. I did odd jobs on farms for family and friends, as well as babysitting. I worked that whole summer of my 6th grade year, and I continued to work every summer up until my senior year in high school when I started to work full-time. I started helping pay my parents rent when I was thirteen and bought most of my own food as a young adult. I bought all of my cars, and I am paying for my own school. So you might ask "why were we so poor? Was it because you had deadbeat parents? Did they not work full-time? What? Why were you so poor?" Well my dad; even though was a very hard working man, he did work at a dead end job and my mom could not find a full-time job until I was thirteen, and neither of them made a whole lot of money. Now I always thought that if the government would raise the minimum wage it would help my parents out. However, I later found out that the problem did not lie in how much money my parents made. The problem was the amount of debt my parents had and lack of experience for other job opportunities. Now even though my parents are doing a lot better today I myself learned to avoid those troubles at a young age and by the grace of God I am able to support my wife and two kids on $11.94 an hour.

There are millions of people in America that are in the same situation that I was at age eleven. Many people are praying every day that the government will raise the federal minimum wage. However, the United States economy would take a severe blow if Congress decided to raise the federal minimum wage. If worker...

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