You all are searching for your first job. You receive an interview and a few short days later your hired! You work for a month and receive your paycheck, and find that you are only making $7.00 and hour. The United States minimum wage is 7.25 per hour. As Americans we think that this number is truly outrageous. What Americans do not know, is how this measly number compares. In Mexico the hourly wage is below a dollar, Chile 's is $3.00, Estonia is $2.50, Poland, Turkey and Greece all rest at a steady $4.00. All these numbers are converted to U.S. currency, allowing you to see how these countries compare. Now think about working for hours on end, not going to school, barely seeing your family, and possibly living on the streets. This is Poverty. We don 't understand that teens just like us are trying to get jobs in other countries while trying to juggle school, family issues, and keeping up mental and physical health. Poverty is currently affecting teens by hindering the amount of schooling one would receive, and creating poor physical and mental …show more content…
Even if they are almost finished with a task they will see no hope for finishing if it is to hard. Studies concluded, that students who live in poverty will display impatience, inappropriate emotional responses, and unable to have empathy for peers misfortunes. Trying to empathize for these students is key. "A teacher cannot change the students bank account p, but you can change what is in their emotional account"(Jenson 23). Teachers and teens can begin to change their school, not only for the students who live in poverty, but as a whole. Teachers can respect the student as they want to be respected, minimizing the sarcasm that controls classrooms. Students can become understanding to their peers, creating a harmony in a class atmosphere. Poverty may control the students home, but poverty has no grip on the students
Bernie Sanders wants to raise minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour and minimize the requirement for welfare. He wants healthcare and education to be free. He is also for the legalization of marijuana. Sanders has a strong bottom line that mainly consist of passing the “popular” laws. Bernie Sanders has a “paper theory.”
I watched a documentary called “Living on Minimum Wage” in the series Thirty Days. In the series Thirty Days, a man named Morgan Spurlock puts himself into certain situations to experience the problems some Americans face everyday. Mr. Spurlock decided to live off of minimum wage in the state of Ohio. The minimum wage in Ohio now is $8.10 per hour, but in 2005, when the episode was filmed, the minimum wage was $5.15 per hour. He started off with one week worth minimum wage ($300).
America one of the richest countries that prides itself on its buoyancy of capitalism, and by its very nature drives by a monetary system that enslaves the working poor. Corporations continue to lay off workers’ for larger profit margins; deliberately labeling and adding moderate jobs to the market, thus, avoiding higher wages that would interfere with their profit margins. Corporations have no fairness; there will always be winners and losers, or rather the rich, and the poor. Although at one time, a beneficial medium made for a strong middle class. The labor unions that protected the interest of the low- wage worker helped create a livable wage with benefits, but today the workers that make up the middle class are simply vanishing, because
Should the Federal Minimum Wage be Increased? Have you ever thought that you wanted a raise at work but did not have reasons? In this essay you can give your boss these reasons and get more money. The minimum wage in 2012 was $7.25. The minimum wage is a large-scale reason of poverty.
In China, the minimum wage is $2.15 an hour and in Bangladesh, the minimum wage is $0.50 an hour. Someone might be thinking that thirteen is too young of an age and $0.50 cents is too little, that a law should prevent that, but this law is sometimes not enforced as it should be or is very weak. Americans are part of the problem too, have you ever seen a really nice shirt for like practically free? Here is why. Bangladesh the minimum wage is $0.50 an hour because they pay a low wage and gain a bigger profit.
According to Feeding America, 15.5 million children under the age of eighteen are living in poverty. That’s 21.1 percent of kids, making it the highest compared to all other age groups. In fact, only Mexico, Chile, and Turkey have a higher
Evidence of Problem Existence: Most of us can't get by on minimum wage pay and leaves people struggling at home. Chris Isidore stated on a article listed on CNN that "About 20% of American adults who have jobs are earning only $10.65 an hour or less, according to Osterman's analysis. Even at 40 hours a week, that amounts to less than $22,314, the poverty level for a family of
Now it is good to have a job; regardlessly, it is about the pay rate. The jobs that I have listed before are paying their employees minimum wage. Which is between $7-$10, or less maybe, depending on the state that employees lives. Living and working for a minimum wage job is not a best way to live in. It is understandable of why they have to go through this because they have to make a few sacrifices to continue going forward.
In the United States, the poverty level is based on an annual income figure that “in 1999 a family of four with an income below $16,954 was defined as poor; in 2006 the poverty line for a family of four was put at $20,614”
The wage given to an employee is a motivational factor for one’s decision to work for an organization. Wages given to employees varies across different departments of an organization. Organizations have several criteria for determining who deserves what, and how much to pay the employee aside the minimum wage set by the governments. Wage reflects job efforts measured by hours of work and educational qualification among other variables. Firms pay the educated, and the more skilled workers higher wages than the less educated and unskilled workers.
Minimum wage was first established in 1938 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in an attempt to stimulate economic growth and create a better standard of living for the lower class. This attempt was fairly successful, but also has many consequences. You may be asking yourself, “how on Earth could setting a limit on how little you can pay someone be bad?” On the surface this statement seems logical, but if we delve deeper we begin to see many negative effects on the implementation of minimum wage. In our nation the minimum wage law almost seems out of place, like it doesn’t quite fit in.
In today’s day in age in America everyone thinks they should be paid a lot for doing basic jobs. In recent years there has been employees go on strike at some fast food restaurants because they felt they were underpaid and that that should be getting $15 an hour. They might think that $15 an hour
Child poverty denies children with the basic needs to survive, expand, and flourish. It also deprives children from having equal opportunities in school such as a good education based on where they live, the proper teachers needed, and the motivation to not drop out. The lower-class students of this generation are being deprived of a quality education whereas the rest of society not only gets an outstanding education, but is able to participate in after-school activities that increases the student's social skills as well as helps them educationally. One significant factor that serves to exclude children living in poverty from their peers is the increasing rate of children falling behind in school due to the lack of help that they have access
Here are a few depressing facts: Almost half the world live on less than $2.50 a day, Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century being unable to read a book, The total GDP of the 41 heavily indebted poor countries is less than the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined,1 billion children suffer poverty(1 in 2 children
When I was 16 I had finaly got my first job making $7.25 a hour. I thought I was rich being only 16 and bringing home a $350 dollar paycheck every two weeks. As I was turning 18 i started to realize something that I didn’t realize when I was 16. I had bought my first car and my own phone, I had bills to pay now. $550 a month doesn’t sound like a lot but making $7.25 an hour 8 hours a day, that’s ten days of work that’s 80 hours a month just to pay for my car.