Can I Have A Raise??

   

In the article "Time For A Raise" By Patrica Smith explains why President Obama wants to increase federal minimum wage $9 an hour. Catrina Crable, 10th grader at Martin County High School in Florida works 20 to 25 hours a week as a restaurant hostess , earning $7.79 an hour to pay for all her life needs. "Even working so many hours, I don't get paid that much," she says "It's stressful." In the article Smith explains that if Obama raises $9 an hour from $7.25 then people would be able to have more money in their pockets. Also being able to pay for groceries, rent and other personal things. There are different reasoning's for this change. There's a good purpose and a bad purpose.

 

  Most people think that it's a good idea to have the $9 increase to an hour pay . From making almost $10 dollars to having extra money in your pocket. On the other hand the bad purpose to this "good idea" is whoever is working  for their boss he/she would have to be getting paid more of course because of the $9 increase. Once that happens then the boss will have to pay you more coming out of he/she pocket. Plus rent for the workplace, electricity and everything else. Which means that people may start getting less hours. That way the boss of the workplace wouldn't have to pay their workers much. But it wouldn't make much of a difference since hours would be getting shortened. Rajeev Dhawan, an economist at Georgia State University  said "Their hourly rate may go up, but their number of hour may come down, so it's not an overall increase." People could be afraid of this increase because people are earning more money when and their spending it instead of saving. 

   My honest opinion is that people should be making a higher pay because of how hard their working. But if hours are going to be getting cut then what's the point of having a $9 increase. There's different people out there so you never know if your boss will cut your hours just because of pay.