Persuasive Essay On Minimum Wage

There has always been a saying” The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer”, I almost feel like that couldn’t be true. Now when it comes to living in NY I don’t understand how the government can think making minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is enough to survive in this world. I believe that minimum wage should be $15 a hour, I see that because lets face it we all have a family, or children, how are we expected to raise a family in a decent neighborhood, put food on the table, pay rent, food bills, phone bills, and etc. I do believe from personal experience that if I made more money than I could definitely be able to save money. I grew up in a rough neighborhood, and grew up poor to middle class if you can call it that, because to be honest, middle class and poor are closer then you think. Before I had my daughter I was taking care of my self, and once my daughter came along, I worked triple harder to get my daughter out of the ghetto. Now trying to survive on my pay in Long Island is almost impossible.

“A report released on Wednesday by the Pew Research Center found that the wealth gap between the country’s top 20 percent of earners and the rest of America had stretched to its widest point in at least three decades (Patricia Cohen, wrote this article in the NY Times)”. “The wealth gap zeros in on a different aspect of financial well-being: how much money and other assets you have accumulated over time, including the value of your home and car plus any investments in stocks, bonds and the like” (Patricia