Alan Weloth
1.6.2016
Now that New Years has passed the time has come for the federal raise on minimum
wage. Every employee that receives minimum wage has been bumped up to a staggering nine
dollars an hour, from the highly satisfying eight dollars and seventy-five cents. The extra quarter
that minimum wage has been set to doesn’t exactly change anything. The Minimum Wage Act,
created by the federal labor system, doesn’t actually change much in New York. Employers will
continue to pay the bottom line dollar of income to their workers if it is in their own greedy
interests.
The fact is that because Employers pay bottom line for labor, they will hire just about
anyone, no matter their background. Leaving people like college students and kids who truly
deserve a job stuck between minimum wage, and being jobless.
Minimum wage currently only barely covers a semester at Hudson Valley Community
College, if the student doesn’t go on college leave. While there are numerous ways to get money
for college students to go to college, minimum wage puts a stress on students. It is nearly
impossible to a student to provide for themselves when working long hours for minimum wage
and juggling school into the mix as well, given, if college in the United States could catch up to
the rest of the world and raise taxes to provide free college then that would take a huge amount
of pressure off of students in which case minimum wage of nine dollars would be sufficient.
