Please refrain from offensive language, or your post will be removed by the webmaster. We want to hear your opinions, but we have a varied audience of all ages. You can find the archived articles of discussion here. Minimum wage, the lowest acceptable wage in our society. Most reading this are not getting paid minimum wage, but were at one time.
Minimum wage is a very important topic and effects everyone.
Each wage paid in our general economy effects another. As minimum wage goes up, others do as well. By 1996, the minimum wage adjusted for inflation was approaching a 40-year low. Inflation had largely wiped out the last increase in the minimum wage approved by Congress in 1989. There are currently seven states in which the minimum wage is above the federal level.