Minimum Wage and explore it. Write down at least two interesting pieces of information that you discovered on the website. Don't copy your classmates. Each post must contain two pieces of information that have not been discussed.
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Minimum Wage
As this weeks chapter deals with minimum wage the blog will as well. Go to the following website,
Minimum Wage and explore it. Write down at least two interesting pieces of information that you discovered on the website. Don't copy your classmates. Each post must contain two pieces of information that have not been discussed.
Minimum Wage and explore it. Write down at least two interesting pieces of information that you discovered on the website. Don't copy your classmates. Each post must contain two pieces of information that have not been discussed.
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Isabelle Tzeng ; 6th
ReplyDeleteTwo interesting facts hat I learned are:
- The majority of people who are earning minimum wage usually get a raise within a year
-Minimum wages also vary between different states.
Minimum wage increases do not reduce poverty and the highest current minimum wage is $14.44 in California.
ReplyDeleteDahlia Chandrahasan, 4th period
1) California and Massachusetts currently have the highest state minimum wages in the country at $10 per hour
ReplyDelete2)a $9 national minimum wage would cost 100,000 jobs
Two interesting facts I learned is that reducing the minimum wage will not reduce jobs. The other fact I learned is that the minimum age in Texas is $7.25 an hour
ReplyDeleteVictoria Avila - 6th period
Two interesting facts I found were that minimum wage also reduces employment opportunities among the least-skilled, and the authors find no statistically significant evidence that a higher minimum wage has helped reduce financial, housing, health, or food insecurity.
ReplyDeleteFatima Wahid
Period 2
2 interesting facts:
ReplyDeleteLess skilled people are more likely to take fewer hours jobs and people who earned minimum wage are likely to be young.
ZhiQi Jiang
2nd Period
Two interesting facts that I found were
ReplyDelete-Research shows no link between minimum wage and economic growth, and
- On net, minimum wage increases have little to no net effect on participation in (or spending on) a range of means-tested programs.
Lameese Taha
6th period
I leaned that some legislators have been considering an anti-poverty measure, such as the EITC, that boosts wages without reducing job opportunities. I also learned that in 41 of the fifty states, more than 50 percent of the working-age population is living in poverty and is not employed.
ReplyDeleteNeha Shah
6 period
2 interesting facts I found:
ReplyDeleteAccording to a follow-up analysis using the CBO methodology, a $12 minimum wage would destroy 770,000 jobs. Also... A new national survey of mostly-small businesses shows that minimum wage increases being considered by some cities will likely have a more negative impact on franchise businesses.
Omar Khadimally - 2
-if minimum wage goes up employers will be forced to either pass costs on to consumers in the form of higher prices, or cut costs elsewhere–leading to less full-service and more customer self-service
ReplyDelete-if minimum wage goes up there might be fewer hours and jobs are available for less-skilled and less-experienced employees, because employers are less likely to pay more to those that might cost them money due to lack of experience and knowledge
Cynthia Galan
Period 4
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ReplyDelete1）In 41 of the 50 states plus Washington D.C., more than 50 percent of the working-age population living in poverty are not employed.
ReplyDelete2) 7 out of 10 economists agree that the Earned Income Tax Credit is the best antipoverty program available to us, while only 1 out of 10 said the same thing about minimum wage hikes.
Sophia Lian
2nd Period
1.- U.S. Depratment of Labor demands that employees must receive the minimum wage amount stated by the state and cannot be employed for more than 40 hours in a week.
ReplyDelete2.- The amount employees should receive cannot be determined without knowing the number of hours worked on a day, week, month, or year.
Eric Chong
2nd Period
1. analysis shows that those with household incomes between $35,000 and up to $100,000 would bear a large portion (43%) of the job loss from this higher minimum wage due to implementation of the "Raise the Wage" Act.
ReplyDelete2.Economists from American and Cornell University studied the 28 states that raised their minimum wages between 2003 and 2007 and found no associated reduction in poverty. This study was done to disprove the hypothesized benefit the "Raise the Wage" Act would have.
Jackie Rosenthal
4th period
Tiffany Chan
ReplyDelete6th period
1) there may be a provision which states that people will have to give four hours of pay for any schedule changes that will like to have made with less than 24 hours notice
2)to adapt to costs, half of surveyed employers said that they would offer fewer part time positions and change the hiring composition of full time vs part time employees
1) If Legislation would require work places to allow employees to make schedules 3 weeks in advance and penalize companies for changes after then this would promote less part-time jobs.
ReplyDelete2)Minimum wages increases both at federal and state level have no impact on funds for public benefit programs.
Allen Watson
Delete6th Period
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ReplyDelete1) EPI’s analysis of proposals to create a $9.80 minimum wage, based on Census Bureau data, finds that they would be poorly targeted to the low-income families they’re intended to help.
ReplyDelete2) In one study there is no evidence that a higher minimum wage has helped reduce financial, housing, health, or food insecurity.
Jackie Landoski
Pd. 2
Shogan Tom
ReplyDeletePeriod 6th
1. If the benefits of the minimum wage were spread equally across all affected low-wage workers, only 12.7% of the
benefits would go to poor households, and nearly half would go to households in the top half of the household income distribution.
2. Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released a new analysis estimating that at least 360,000 jobs — and as many as 1,084,000 jobs — would be eliminated if the federal minimum wage were raised to $10.10.
1. The average teen unemployment rate in Texas is 14.6%.
ReplyDelete2. The average teen unemployment rate in Kansas is 8.6%.
Chris Varghese
Period 6
Rifa Shah
ReplyDeletePeriod 4
1. The minimum wage in Alaska is $7.75.
2. The current unemployment rate in Tennessee for teens is at 19.4%.
Poju Adeogba
ReplyDeletePeriod 2
- Minimum Wage increases have little to no effect on spending
- Only 5% of economists believe that a $15 hour minimum wage would be efficient
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ReplyDeleteVeronica Wang
ReplyDeletePeriod 4
San Francisco has the highest minimum wage in the country at $10.55/hr
Research has found that people who start at minimum wage often move to a higher wage after a year
1. Instead of raising the minimum wage in a misguided attempt to alleviate poverty, legislators should consider an anti-poverty measure with a proven track record, such as the Earned Income Tax credit.
ReplyDelete2.First, minimum wage increases are poorly targeted to public benefits recipients. For example, just 12 percent of those affected by a $15 minimum wage are SNAP recipients, and only 10 percent are Medicaid recipients.
David Sander
4th period
Two interesting points I have learnt:
ReplyDelete1. Contrary to what many assume, low wages are not their primary problem,because most poor Americans do not work for the minimum wage. The problem is that most poor Americans do not work at all.
2. Two-thirds of minimum-wage workers make above the minimum wage a year later.
Jiayu Wang
Period 4th
1. Oregon's 2016 tipped and minimum wages are both $9.25, $2 higher than Texas', due to their lack of a sales tax, etc.
ReplyDelete2. Oregon's unemployment is also almost twice as much as Texas' at 28% in 2014 and 22.2% in 2015!
Amanda Miller
Period 6
Two facts that I found:
ReplyDelete1) The minimum wage for those with regular employment is $12.53 in US currency.
2) The state of Hawaii currently has a minimum wage of $8.50. The unemployment in there dropped from 15.7% in 2014, to 12.8% this year.
Yousuf Sirajuddin
DeletePeriod 2
1.) One of the reasons it's hard to raise minimum wage is because a majority of Americas 'poor population' is unemployed, thus simply raising the minimum wage won't help them at all.
ReplyDelete2.) According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, if the national minimum wage was increased to $9/hour, 100,000 jobs would be lost as a result of this.
Akhil Raju
Period 2
1. The average tipped wage in Texas is 2.13
ReplyDelete2. Franchises are more likely to employ minimum wage workers.
Alex Ittoop
Period 2
1. Nearly three-quarters of these US-based economists oppose a federal minimum wage of $15.00 per hour
ReplyDelete2. 71% of surveyed economists believe that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a very efficient way to address the income needs of poor families; only five percent believe a $15.00 per hour minimum wage would be very efficient.
Prakul Suresh
Period 6
1.)Economists at the University of California-Irvine and the Federal Reserve Board found that 85 percent of the most credible studies on the minimum wage point to job losses for less-skilled employees.
ReplyDelete2.)A 2007 study by the University of New Hampshire found that seven out of 10 economists agree that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the best antipoverty program available to us, while only one out of 10 said the same thing about minimum wage hikes.
Ashley Abraham
Period 6
1. Minimum wage increases do not help reduce poverty.
ReplyDelete2. When the minimum wage goes up, these employers are forced to either pass costs on to consumers in the form of higher prices, or cut costs elsewhere–leading to less full-service and more customer self-service.
Two interesting facts:
ReplyDelete1. A recent study in San Diego, containing 35 years of government data, has shown that minimum wage has little to no effect on participation of welfare programs.
2. Recent studies in the University of California Irvine has shown that minimum wage has actually pointed to more unemployment for less skilled workers.
Ayoub Nasraddine
Period 6
Two interesting facts:
ReplyDelete1) Georgia, at 23.6% has the highest teen unemployment rate of any state in the U.S.
2) In 2014, Chicago instates a policy that would raise the minimum wage by 60% person over five years to reach $13 an hour by 2019.
Logan Felton
Period 2
Christian Cortez, period 2
ReplyDelete1. California and Massachusetts have the highest minimum wage rates, and Emery, California has the highest rate of $14.40/ hour
2. The idea that raising the minimum wage stimulates the economy, is a myth.
Andrew Auyeung
ReplyDeleteperiod 2
1. In a survey of employees in New York who earn $12-$15 an hour, 46 percent opposed a law that would require entry-level employees to be paid the same wage that they earn.
2. McDonald’s has already installed over 7,000 of these units in higher-cost European markets and will likely increase the amount of automated stores in states like California where minimum wage has risen.
- people thought that raising the minimum wage could reduce employees’ reliance on social safety net programs.
ReplyDelete-a higher minimum wage—and a $15 minimum wage in particular—is a blunt tool to aid the recipients of these programs.
Leesa Cano
Period 6
I learned that from a study from San Diego State University, they find that federal and state minimum wage increases have had no measurable impact on the use by working-age adults of SNAP, Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program. Also minimum wage increase policy will have little impact on taxpayers, but the impact on less-skilled employees who lose their jobs may be severe.
ReplyDeleteAna Salim
4th period
Two interesting facts that I have learned are: minimum wage increases the cost of living and in fact, increases poverty. In addition to this, it causes job loss as higher paying jobs become more competitive and easier to lose.Job loss also disproportionately affects black americans.
ReplyDeleteChelsea Godfrey
2nd period
Daniel Oviedo
ReplyDeleteperiod 4
1. In December 2014, the Chicago City Council approved a law raising the city’s minimum wage by nearly 60 percent, to $13 an hour, by 2019.
2. Census Bureau data shows that just one in 10 of those affected by a $10.10 or $12 minimum wage fit this description. A majority of those affected are either second or third-earners in households where the average family income exceeds $50,000 per year.
Two interesting facts that I have learned are: minimum wage increases the cost of living and in fact, increases poverty. In addition to this, it causes job loss as higher paying jobs become more competitive and easier to lose.Job loss also disproportionately affects black americans.
ReplyDeleteChelsea Godfrey
2nd period
Ashlin J.
ReplyDelete2nd period
Two interesting facts were:
1) A very few of the U.S. Labor Force get minimum wage
2) A lot of people who get minimum wage work in fast food restaurants
1.) One interesting fact I learned was that in California teens earn a minimum wage of 10 dollars while we earn 7.25 per hour.
ReplyDelete2.) Some researchers have found that there is no significant evidence that a higher minimum wage has helped reduce financial, housing, health, or food insecurity. This is true mainly because of the education status of the poor and the fact that they are not working.
Aleena Mathe
period 6
1. New york has a minimum wage of $9.00
ReplyDelete2. One 2015 report published in Industrial Relations estimated that a higher wage floor reduces taxpayer spending on a social welfare program
Jenny George
6th period
1. The notion that most minimum wage earners are single parents with kids is a myth.
ReplyDelete2. Recently, the union-backed Economic Policy Institute released a study that determined, “raising wages would significantly reduce reliance on public assistance.”
Sarah Sam
6th period
1. the percent of working age poor who dont work in viegina is 64.7%
ReplyDelete2.Modern minimum wage laws trace their origin to the Ordinance of Labourers
Temi Oyewuwo
6th period
1. Raising the minimum wage will not reduce poverty
ReplyDelete2.Research found that the majority of employees who start at the minimum wage, move to a higher wage in their first year on the job.
Jonathan Ungar
4th Period
1. The federal minimum wage in today's society is $7.25 per hour
ReplyDelete2. People in poverty and low income jobs wish to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour
Aaron Hudson
Period 6
1. 72.9% of working age poor in West Virginia don't work.
ReplyDelete2. Employees who start at the minimum wage aren’t stuck there.
Sunny Patil
Period 2
1) Each person's wage starts off differently. It's not always the same for everyone. Wages can also change if you get a better position which results in a higher pay.
ReplyDelete2)Certain states believe that the minimum wage provided is beneficial to the people.
Aliya Noorani
Period 2
Mitchell Kuy Pd. 2
ReplyDeleteOver half (54.7 percent) of poor, less-educated individuals between ages 16 and 64 do not work.
A similar percentage (53.6 percent) of individuals who report missing a rent or a mortgage payment do not work.
Srikar Valluripalli
ReplyDeletePeriod 2
1. majority of the people who are poor in Nevada do not have a job
2.the amount of pay for certain jobs do not always show how difficult or demanding the job is.
Britney Stephen
ReplyDeletePeriod 4
1) Employees gradually increases their wages depending on how long they have been working for.
2) The Earned Income Tax credit boosts wages without reducing job opportunities, and creates incentives for those who are not currently working to seek it.
Britney Stephen
ReplyDeletePeriod 4
1) Employees gradually increases their wages depending on how long they have been working for.
2) The Earned Income Tax credit boosts wages without reducing job opportunities, and creates incentives for those who are not currently working to seek it.
1. After a warning in New York of the raising of minimum wage to $15 a new billboard in Times Square highlights another unintended consequence of the law: Devaluing the hard work of more-experienced employees who have worked their way up the career ladder.
ReplyDelete2. San Francisco bookstores have been forced to experiment with unique customer sponsorship models to cover the costs of the city’s minimum wage increase and remain in business.
Daanish Virani
2nd period
Mahnoor Malik
ReplyDeletePeriod 2
1.) the Bureau of Labor Statistics most recent report on minimum wage workers shows that about 56,000 people in the state earn at or below the federal minimum wage of $7.25.
2.) A new national survey displays that minimum wage increases taking place in certain cities will likely have a more negative impact on the franchise business.
1.Employees that earn the minimum wage tend to be young, and work in businesses that keep a few cents of each sales dollar after expenses. When the minimum wage goes up, these employers are forced to either pass costs on to consumers in the form of higher prices, or cut costs elsewhere–leading to less full-service and more customer self-service.
ReplyDelete2.Fewer hours and jobs are available for less-skilled and less-experienced employees. Minimum wage increases do not help reduce poverty.
Jewel Zachariah
Period 6
2 interesting facts
ReplyDelete1. the minimum wage has proven to be an ineffective means of eliminating poverty and often harms those that it intends to help.
2. The CBO, which is cited as an expert by both Republicans and Democrats, estimated that a half-million jobs would be lost nationwide should a $10.10 minimum wage take effect.
1) McDonalds has already begun testing the use of 7,000 self-service kiosks in stores in the higher-cost European markets
ReplyDelete2)In 41 of the fifty states plus Washington D.C., more than 50 percent of the working-age population living in poverty are not employed
1.)Minimum wage varies in each state.
ReplyDelete2.) Lowering or radiating the minimum wage will not have a detrimental or majorly beneficial effect on poverty.
Lauren Pham 4th pd
1. 71% economists believe that the Earned income tax credit is a efficient way to address the income needs of poor families.
ReplyDelete2. West Virginia has the highest rate of working age poor who don't work with 72.9%
Guy Joseph Period 2
1. The minimum wage in Texas is exactly the same as the national average.
ReplyDelete2. Increasing minimum wage has shown no actual data in favor of providing economic benefit by any means.
Gavin Levy
6th period
1. In Florida, the minimum wage is higher than the national average at $8.05
ReplyDelete2.Increasing the minimum wage will decrease the amount of jobs available due to increased costs.
Sean moss
2nd
Joyce
ReplyDelete6th period
1. In 2016, the minimum wage in Maryland is $8.25.
2. In Maryland, the average teen unemployment rate of 2016 is 18.4%.
1. The minimum wage in Vermont is $9.60
ReplyDelete2. The average teen unemployment rate in Vermont is 12.4%
Lucky Marchelino
DeletePeriod 4
1. A majority of employees that start at the minimum wage, move to a higher wage in their first year on the job.
ReplyDelete2. West Virginia has the highest rate of working age poor who do not work due to lack of jobs in the United States
Babur Khan
4th Period
1.) An increase of the federal minimum wage to $12.00 could provide raises for 35 million workers (directly or indirectly through ripple effects)—more than a quarter of the workforce—in an era of stagnant wages. (http://raisetheminimumwage.org/pages/fact-sheet-time-to-raise-the-minimum-wage)
ReplyDelete2.) Our nation's first minimum wage came in the form of the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, which sets minimum wages on federally financed or assisted construction projects. (http://cnsnews.com/commentary/walter-e-williams/minimum-wage-dishonesty)
Chase Philip
6th period
1} But would a $12 minimum wage have the same harmful impact statewide? The evidence suggests so. Economists William Even of Miami University and David Macpherson of Trinity University replicated the methodology used in the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office’s 2014 report on raising the minimum wage, which was informed by the latest and most up-to-date research on the subject. They estimate that roughly 3,800 jobs would be lost in Maine if a $12 minimum wage was implemented by 2020. (This estimate is conservative, as it doesn’t include the impact of the change in the tipped minimum wage.)
ReplyDelete2}“On the negative side [of a higher wage mandate], some employment growth might be curtailed among the youngest minimum wage workers. Since employment to population rates among those under 18 are already quite high by historical standards, some decline might be acceptable and well worth the overall benefits
1} But would a $12 minimum wage have the same harmful impact statewide? The evidence suggests so. Economists William Even of Miami University and David Macpherson of Trinity University replicated the methodology used in the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office’s 2014 report on raising the minimum wage, which was informed by the latest and most up-to-date research on the subject. They estimate that roughly 3,800 jobs would be lost in Maine if a $12 minimum wage was implemented by 2020. (This estimate is conservative, as it doesn’t include the impact of the change in the tipped minimum wage.)
ReplyDelete2}“On the negative side [of a higher wage mandate], some employment growth might be curtailed among the youngest minimum wage workers. Since employment to population rates among those under 18 are already quite high by historical standards, some decline might be acceptable and well worth the overall benefits
1.)When the minimum wage goes up, these employers are forced to either pass costs on to consumers in the form of higher prices, or cut costs elsewhere–leading to less full-service and more customer self-service.
ReplyDelete2.)Minimum wage increases do not help reduce poverty. Award winning research looked at states that raised their minimum wage between 2003 and 2007 and found no evidence to suggest these higher minimum wages reduced poverty rates.
Karina Guerrero
4th period
1) Conducted studies show that states who have raised their minimum wages actually see very little rise in poverty rates.
ReplyDelete2) It is interesting how even after going through the trouble of raising the minimum wages, employees are still being replaced by machines.
Rachael Crumbaker
Delete2nd period
Rachael Crumbaker
Delete2nd period
Two interesting facts I learned are:
ReplyDelete-In 41 of the fifty states plus Washington D.C., more than 50 percent of the working-age population living in poverty are not employed.
-The Earned Income Tax Credit boosts wages without reducing job opportunities.
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