I just started a new job, but they only pay as little as they are legally allowed.
What is the minimum wage in your area?
In Oklahoma it is $7.25 an hour.
I am not sure what it is in my state, minimum wage is hard to live on.
That's the truth. If it didn't cost so much to move, I'd go to Washington. They have $11.50/hour pay.
Well the problem with the minimum wage being higher is that the cost of living is also higher, so really it equals out
opinion exist about the benefits and drawbacks of a minimum wage. Supporters of the minimum wage say it increases the standard of living of workers, reduces poverty, reduces inequality, and boosts morale. In contrast, opponents of the minimum wage say it increases poverty, increases unemployment (particularly among unskilled or inexperienced workers) and is damaging to businesses, because excessively high minimum wages require businesses to raise the prices of their product or service to accommodate the extra expense of paying a higher wage and some low-wage workers "will
economists posit that the minimum wage is in part to blame for structural unemployment, although structural unemployment does exist even in the absence of a minimum wage. They assert that because the governmentally imposed minimum wage is higher than some individuals' marginal revenue product in any given job, those individuals remain unemployed because employers legally cannot pay them what they are "worth." Others believe that in such cases (for example, when a person is intellectually disabled or suffers a debilitating physical condition) it is the responsibility of the state