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• BECAUSE OF LOW PAYING JOBS AMERICANS HAVE TO ENDURE THIS.

Poverty is a real and escalating problem.

WHAT IF MINIMUM WAGE WAS INCREASED

POVERTY WOULD GO FROM THIS

TO THIS

RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE WOULD BE A GRETA FIRST STEP

EXPERTS MAY ARGUE

• "The majority of poor Americans do not work at all for any wage,
• do raising the minimum wage does not help them." -James Sherk

HOWEVER

• The fact is that there are Americans still working.
• Those families have to work multiple jobs just to barely get by.

AMERICANS ARE DEPENDENT ON THESE WAGES

• "Twenty percent of Americans work for a 10.65/hour wage, with 40 hours a week,
• that amounts to less than $22,314, the poverty level for a family of four." -CNN

AMERICANS COULD JUST GET GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE

• Although this may be true the surplus of families needing
• these programs, just shows how low wages are affecting families.
• Families are struggling, turning to last resorts to try and scrape by.

SAY GOODBYE TO LOW WAGES

• R"Raising the federal minimum wage...over the few years would be an
• important first step in helping the working poor climb out of
• poverty, while injecting more money into the economy." -Isidore

WORKS CITED

• Candisky, Catherine. “Low Pay Linked to Poverty Rates: Wages in Most Jobs Fall Short in Ohio.”  .
• The Columbus Dispatch. 7 May, 2011. Web. 7 Nov. 2013
• Isidore, Chris. “Not Getting by on Minimum Wage.” CNN money.
• CNN, 27 Sept. 2011. Web. 7 Nov. 2103.
• Sherk, James. “Raising the Minimum Wage Will Not Reduce Poverty.” The Heritage Foundation Leadership of America. 8 Jan. 2007. Web. 13 Nov.