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I give up

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im going to change my entire claim and sturff

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i did when you lower minimum wage how it affects people

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Isis, could u tell me what articles to read to prove my claim of "you should not raise minimum"

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idk

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i used the issue overview minimum wage article

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we should just keep using one tab

im not finished with mine but...

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do either of y'all recommend an article for me?

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oh i still only have a little bit of info

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i know but just why would you type all that in for your claim

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but I cant decide bc raising it would put a lot of people out of a job therefore in poverty but at the same time if u don't raise it people will STILL be in poverty so it doesn't make sense to raise or leave it be

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but its so long HOWWWWWWW did you type all that

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The U.S. federal minimum wage has been raised 22 times since Congress created it in 1938 at 25 cents an hour, with the most recent vote in 2007.
Some studies conclude that higher wage floors lead to fewer jobs. That was the consensus until the 1990s, when a flurry of new state minimums exceeding the federal rate (the higher rate always applies) gave researchers more ways to study the effects of wage hikes on adjacent communities.
The Congressional Budget Office released a mixed-bag analysis in 2014 that found that adopting a $10.10 minimum wage nationwide would lift 900,000 people out of poverty while eliminating 500,000 low-income jobs.
Not many Americans work for $7.25 an hour these days. In 2015, just 3.3 percent of the country’s 78.2 million hourly workers earned that amount.
Adjusted for inflation, the value peaked in February 1968 when it was $1.60, about $10.91 in 2015 dollars.
A landmark 1994 report compared employment at fast-food outlets in New Jersey and Pennsylvania two years after New Jersey raised its hourly minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.05.
A graph and diagram showing the minimum wage laws of the United States
The foremost candidates — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — all believe the national minimum wage of $7.25 an hour should be raised. The issue is by how much.
Sanders and O'Malley have thrown their support behind a national movement to set the floor at $15 an hour. This movement has galvanized workers both in and out of unions in cities across the country and has already claimed victory in the Pacific cities of Los Angeles, California; San Francisco, California; and Seattle, Washington.
One leading minimum-wage researcher and a former economic adviser to President Barack Obama recently warned that raising the national minimum to $15 an hour could be "counterproductive." A $15 hourly minimum could set back the very people it is supposed to help.

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Community activists and politicians see a $15 minimum wage as the antidote to the ills of rising inequality, a way to reduce poverty and stimulate the overall economy. Business owners warn it will tie their hands in downturns, drive small employers out of business and lead to millions of layoffs.The reality is not that simple: An increase to $15 an hour would ripple through the U.S. economy in some unexpected ways that are, generally, not as bad nor as beneficial as each side claims.
Almost 60 percent of workers who are paid on an hourly basis — some 44 million people — currently make less than $15 an hour, Labor Department figures show. If the minimum went up to $15 tomorrow, nearly half of those workers would get at least a 50 percent bump in pay.
More than 8.4 million people earning less than $10 an hour today are in the prime of their work life, between ages 25 and 54. About 62 percent of these workers are women, many with children.
When Oakland’s minimum wage jumped from $9 an hour to $12.25 in March, residents noticed many stores tacked on a dime or a quarter to an assortment of items. Creole food caterer David Smith went further, jacking up the price of his dishes by $2 to $3 a plate. “I had to,” says Smith, 35, who has three employees.
An analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office last year estimated that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, which some lawmakers had proposed, would result in a half-million jobs lost. At $15 an hour, the hit would likely be in the millions.
“Fifteen dollars still scares me,” says Harry Holzer, a Georgetown University economist, adding that what might be doable in high-priced cities like Seattle and San Francisco could prove more difficult in other areas.No doubt higher wages will push some struggling companies into bankruptcy, especially smaller ones that operate on thin margins.
Dominique McCrae, who serves fried chicken and biscuits at a Bojangles' restaurant for $7.55 an hour, joined a protest outside a McDonald's in Durham, North Carolina. Her pay isn't enough to cover rent or diapers for her child, the 23-year-old said. She dropped out of college to care for her grandfather, making finances tight.
McDonald's worker Adriana Alvarez said she plans to vote for the first time next year, but only for a candidate who wants to raise wages to $15 an hour. Alvarez, who is 23 and lives in Chicago, said that she makes $10.50 an hour and that higher pay can help her move out of the moldy basement apartment she shares with her 3-year-old son."I can find a better place," she said.
Some at the rally were not fast-food workers. Liz Henry, 38, who works in environmental services at a New York hospital, makes more than $15 per hour but supports the effort for other workers."Even what I'm making right now is not even enough," she says. "How do they really get by? It's hard."