On Wednesday, May 9, 2012, The Huffington Post posted a blog post called "Missouri Minimum Wage Hike: Backers Say They Have Enough Signitures To Qualify For Ballot" by Ariel Edwards-Levy. Ariel Edwards-Levy is a credible blogger for the Huffington Post. Her target audience is people who work minimum wage or people who don't want minimum wage to increase. Edwards-Levy puts forth two opposong views on the increase in minimum wage.
The people who back the proposal that would raise minimum wage by $1 which would make it $8.25 an hour in 2013 and require that tipped employees received 60 percent of the state minimum wage, as opposed to 50 percent. These people, including the director of Missouri Jobs with Justice, argue that "Everything is going up but the paycheck," and it is getting increasingly more difficult to pay bills on a minimum wage budget.
People who oppose the minimum wage increase argue that it is harmful and would hurt employment numbers, especially for teenaged workers. Making minimum wage higher would in turn make the amount of jobs available decrease.
I can see both sides, but because I am a teenager with little work experience I woudl not like it if the minimum wage increase hurt my chances of getting a job. I would propose a compromise of maybe a fifty cent raise and meet somewhere in the middle.
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