Minimum Wages and Its Negative Effects on Adolescent Fertility

This article is quite different from the others. It discovers a whole new downfall to these wages. Prior to this reading, I never would have imagined these two topics could correlate in the slightest. However, my eyes were opened after concluding this article. Bullinger’s research indicates negative effects on fertility to adolescent parents. Not only does it harm the child before it is born, if it makes it that long of course. But after the birth, the young parents are almost certain to be stuck in minimum wage type employment opportunities. One very interesting point that the author made is when she claimed: “Higher wages might keep adolescents attached to the labor market—potentially increasing their future advancement opportunities—and thus provide a reason to delay childbearing or offer a chance to substitute work for leisure”

This article offers a lot of valid information about the effects of such increases. It explores how increases have little effect to none on the products cost. The reasoning behind this surprising truth comes from the truth behind corporations. It shows that if employees are paid a little more it will not increase prices for consumers. The reason that large franchises refuse to increase wages is because obviously, they don’t have to because it is not illegal. But also, so that these collect all profits. Many companies do not even allow employees to work the full 40 hours, so they cannot collect medical and other benefits. Corporations are quite self-oriented and treat employees the opposite of how human beings should be treated.

This article explores if minimum wages actually kill jobs. In all reality most jobs are minimum wage jobs. There’s a huge debate whether increasing wages hurts the business’s or not, but for the most part these jobs are franchises. Which essentially means that they are well equipped to pay these increases. Employees are not treated well in these positions, while company’s sit back and make a lot of money. There is a wonderful graph located in this article that shows the percentage of change in various states when the minimum wage was increased. Several good conclusions can be made after reading this article. I say this because it explains clearly cause and effect which is highly essential for the research within my paper.

The New American Poverty was written I 1984, but still appears to be true within recent times alike. This article shows the real poverty of the United States, how it started, and why it remains to be this way. In this article, Harrington discusses minimum wages over the years. It is evident that it has not increased significantly, even from the 80’s. This information is very essential to my research, so that I can see the history of minimum wage and its fluctuations. I think that by showing this information, I can get my audience’s attention easily. This article is a well-represented article on the underlying issues of poverty in America.

In The Elusive Effects of Minimum Wages, Kennan discusses the several effects that minimum wage leads to. This article discusses the history of this program, and also shows the fluctuations in prices as the article above does. Some of the conclusions were difficult to understand because professional theories and words are included. However, for what can be understood is very valuable, which is why I plan to utilize this article. Many graphs are utilized in this article to help show the results of the tests, however, some of the graphs are difficult to make generalizations from. I feel Kennan should have been more respectful when crafting this article, what he needs to understand, is that not everyone is able to interpret these findings.

This 1999 article explores wage inequality within the United States. Lee offers several rational ideas as to the reasoning behind these issues. This inequality began during the 1980’s and is still happening today. There were several occurrences that led up to this situation, and the solution is not easily influenced. This is because with changing wages, comes a plethora of other problems. These ideas are explained in this essay and lead to several realizations that are worthy of exploring. Another noteworthy component of this journal is that it provides comparisons of income and other social aspects of wages to help audiences understand the scope of these inequality issues.

Neumark and Wascher were authors in two of my document sources. I feel that both know quite a bit on the topic, and would prove worthy of inclusion into my research. This article explores the possibilities of benefits if wages are increased. The title explains much of the basis of the article “Will increasing minimum wage help the poor” . Most of people would agree that it would help, and to a sense, it certainly would. However, this article breaks down, that even an increase is possibly not enough to help many people. There are so many things holding people back that stretch past financial situations. This article explores many negative situations occurring in the United States that are not equipped to hinder the process. Although finances are a huge portion of the problem, they do not make up the entire puzzle.

Not only are employees effected by money aspects of minimum wage, but their labor is also effected along with many other components. This article talks about how labor developments prompted these changes. But also, explains how these laws are not always being kept within jobs. There are many rights that workers deserve, but aren’t always granted. The authors also explore the percentages of people who receive minimum wage, which breaks down the numbers quite well and paints a picture of the working class receiving minimum wage. This information is quite significant regarding my topic. It explains to us how these issues have been around for a long time and how change certainly should be applied. Another strong component of this article is that explains who and how this figure of minimum wage is created. Since it is different in every state, I feel this information is essential to a better understanding of topics such as these.