Minimum Wage

I personally don't think that minimum wage should be raised. In an article by Kevin hassett and Michael Strain they state that raising minimum wage makes it more expensive  to afford workers. If a business can't afford workers then the business owner is going to have to take on a heavier work load or they will have to go out of business. It feels like to me we as a country are already battling unemployment, and yet we want to raise minimum wage and make unemployment worse. Another argument these two use is that a majority of people that live in poverty aren't even working, so why do we need to pay people who aren't living in poverty more. In an article by Michael Saltsman on CNN he says raising minimum wage won't lower poverty because again most people living in poverty don't work and he also says most working people will earn a raise after the first 12 months on the job, but can't get a raise with out experience, and if businesses can't afford to provide them experience the people won't get jobs. Jack Anderson an entrepreneur states on forbes that about half of  middle skilled workers would be fired, and the ones that were kept would get a big raise but would also have to do a lot more work. By raising minimum wage we aren't necessarily fixing anything.
















http://www.aei.org/article/economics/fiscal-policy/labor/why-we-shouldnt-raise-the-minimum-wage/#mbl

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/16/opinion/saltsman-minimum-wage/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/02/20/why-shouldnt-we-increase-the-minimum-wage-to-20hour/