The lies surrounding raising the minimum wage are staggering. They fill the people who support it with a false sense of knowledge because those same people don't do their research on what it would help. People are more inclined to believe what they here on television and in the news paper because they do not believe that those sources would lie to them. Raising the minimum wage would increase productivity as people would feel as though they were an important part of the company. Companies and businesses that pay more have happier and more productive workers. Businesses that pay the minimum wage have less happy and less productive workers because they don't feel important. They don't feel like the company values them enough. The argument that most people on minimum wage are teenagers or under 20 is false as well. Most people on minimum wage right now are people who are taking what ever job they can to support themselves or their families so that they have a place to live and food to eat.
Raising the minimum wage also allows people to pump more money into the economy. Those earners have more money to spend in other places other than the stores they work at, like at mom and pop owned shops. That keeps local businesses from closing down. It's not about greed, or laziness. If a worker earns the minimum that corporations are legally allowed to pay, then they're not going to work as hard as some one working for a similar store who is making two to three times as much.
The cost of living goes up in an area because of greed. Minimum wage is a good starting place if the company has a comprehensive advancement program. Places that only increase your pay by $0.25 for every milestone you achieve shows their employees that they do not really care about them. Yes there are places that do that. You don't earn bonuses unless your a manager in most places.
There are two reasons for that. One; is if its a major corporation and they don't feel like it. Two; is if they are a small local business and cannot afford to give their employees a decent bonus or a raise because most of their business is stolen by larger corporations.
So raising the minimum wage is important. It would allow people to spend more money in general so that the economy is boosted. Corporations that can afford to lobby congress do so so that they do not have to pay their employees more.
By not paying more than minimum wage corporations force their workers to have to find a second or third job just to make it through the month. A lot more married couples have to have more than one job in rural areas and cities because things are more expensive.
Towns that have tourism experience higher prices on needed goods as well because businesses adjust their prices so that those people who are there for the attraction spend more money. This causes problems for the people who live there as the cost of living goes up during tourist season.
Another type of place that has complications are places with mining or oilfield jobs. Those places have the cost of living adjusted to appeal to those who work in those fields. A town that sees an increase in oil output, or an oil boom, will see the cost of rentals houses and apartments soar because those businesses are taking advantage of the increase in what they believe is a higher distribution of wealth. The problem with this is that not everyone can work in those industries for an unlimited number of reasons.
So those who live in those areas and are not working in those industries see their cost of living almost skyrocket and it gets harder for them to keep up with bills.
