In the last seven years the value of the minimum wage has decreased $0.74, according to www.epinet.org. Due to the decrease in value the minimum wage can no longer keep workers above the poverty threshold. In a country founded on a belief in being able to better your situation in life, the rising poverty rates are deplorable. Workers need to be paid enough money to support themselves and their families, if the government does not make sure this happens, poverty rates will continue to rise.
If wages were to be determined by a free-market economy, rather than the federal government, many…
