(Auslen) Bibliography Auslen, Micheal. "Fla. tied for last in jobless benefits pay." Miami Herald 23 September 2015: 9A. The National Employment Law Project stated that most of Florida’s unemployed workers will not obtain money from the state’s insurance. The amount of people that’s receiving Florida unemployment insurance is equal to the same amount of people that’s receiving unemployment insurance in South Carolina. A research was done from June 2014-June 2015. The research showed that out of
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“The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. A full-time minimum wage employee earns $15,080 annually. In 2012, the poverty threshold for a single person was $11,945. For a family of four with two children, it was $22,283” -University of California-Davis. In Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich tells a powerful and tenacious story of the day to day survival of low-income workers in America. Her story transcends the disparity that exists between the bourgeoisie
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Raising the minimum wage would help get the economy moving again and recover from recession. Many advantages will occur by raising the minimum wage such as creating a positive impact on working families, businesses, and state economies. By increasing workers incomes, the economy will move forward due to the rise of demand. In addition, worker productivity will be improved and there will be more job employment opportunities. By creating more jobs, the significant issue of unemployment will decrease
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Sarah Bellum,the payroll manager, contacted the fraud investigation office to express concern about payroll irregularities regarding administrative assistant Irma Hardorker. Our investigation team has analyzed payroll reports in order to find any discrepancies that could indicate fraud. Based on her job description, Ms. Hardworker should be working eight hour days. However, she has been working on average an extra 1 hour and 38 minutes per day, amounting to around ten thousand dollars per year (its
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In Lisa’s Foderaro’s article “To Well-to-Do Get Less So, and Teenagers Feel the Crunch” she discusses how the economy today affects families financially and the unstable job security teenagers and adults are experiencing. She begins to tell the reader a story about a girl named Jodi Hamilton who is a senior at Woodcliff Lake, N.J., and her parents financially provide for her extracurricular activities consisting of private Pilot classes, once a week physics tutor, and a weekly $100 allowance. Unfortunately
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State which already has the highest minimum wage in the country; as she notes "SeaTac, home to the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport went a big step further, raising its minimum wage to an unprecedented $15." However, as the name of the town points out, SeaTac's main industry is the International Airport. While the business community in this town may not be truly representative of the national business climate, the same monotonous arguments against a living wage are present. Consequently, the tired
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“By allowing the minimum wage to remain at a nearly unlivable level, we have deemed certain jobs not worthy enough to meet even our country’s minimum standard of living.” –Andy Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union, and Carl Camden, president and chief executive officer of Kelly Services. It is because I agree with Andy Stern that I am compelled to affirm today’s resolution, Resolved: Just governments ought to require that employers pay a living wage. For Clarification
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This essay will talk about the minimum wage laws, I have read a few articles and must decide based on these articles what is best for the economy to raise minimum wage laws or lower them. There have been multiple debates on the minimum wage law debut. Both have good arguments but, based on these articles we read and analyzed I believe we should not endorse new minimum wage laws because the unemployment rate would rise, the demand for things in the world will go down because they are so expensive
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Abstract As of lately the price of everything has gone up in the United States, while the average wages have not followed. With gas as an exception to this over the past few years since it has gone down, but I think it was because of the outrage that followed the peak of a high gas prices that it came down. Gas could only stay high for so long, and as the gas prices went up, so did the price of every other good in the United States. The problem now is that the price of gas has gone down, but it
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to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): “The FLSA sets minimum wage, overtime such as how many hours and what the pay is, record keeping, and youth employment standards affecting employees in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments.” FLSA Minimum Wage: Instances as to where an employee is subject to both state and federal minimum wage laws the higher of the two is to be given to the worker. FLSA Overtime: A bare minimum of $7.25 an hour to all workers is required by law since
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