ESSAY 1

The Issue

I am going to address the topic of minimum wage set to a living wage versus market driven wages. The current debate is between the legislators of the 114th Congress and people like myself who live paycheck to paycheck.

My Position

I’m in favor of a gradual increase for all minimum wage employees, of which reflects the median income for the specific zip code the worker resides in. Use of the cost of living model versus a flat rate for everyone poses a number of questions, but also brings answers to quite a few. Currently, the U.S. Military has a system in place (for housing allotments the recruiters receive all around the country) that addresses my argument. As well, I plan to highlight some misgivings served to the American workers and even some blatant lies told to us by elected officials.

Refining Ideas

My use of primary sourced data as well as peer-reviewed articles will make clearer my point. History, even economically, does indeed repeat itself.

Preconceived Notions

As most of my readers will agree, the corporate constant growth model does not “trickle down” to average rank and file employees like our government promised us it would. I have been on this planet long enough to know that paying workers poverty incomes doesn’t demonstrate sound economic policy, but highlights a propensity for greed.

Support

To qualify my potential revisions to current wages, I will use examples of other nations’ economic policies’, cite scientific studies, I’ll maybe even use some anecdotal evidence or quotes to further illustrate my point.

Refutation

To bring weight to the argument, I will also address the most popular counterarguments as well as the rampant case of Congressional Cognitive Dissonance that currently has the Hill in its’ grips.  

-Daniel Bell