Increasing: Minimum Wage

Increasing: Minimum Wage

Increasing: Minimum Wage
        The Minimum Wage Laws started in 1938 when it was only .25cents. Is.25 cents an hour suppose to provide a substantial living situation for American families to provide them with a standard of living above the lowest permitted by health and decency? Minimum wage was supposed to keep this country out poverty, to allow every American to live a decent and respectful life that nobody would be ashamed of.   The minimum wage was not only establish to provide American families with decent living but to provide them the security that they were being paid the right amount for their efforts no matter what type of work or in what area of the country.
From 1938 to 2008 things have change now and the minimum wage has increase to $6.55 an hour and is planning to increase again in July of 2009 to $7.25 an hour. This means that the increase of the minimum wage after a total of seventy years adds up to be $6.30. Has the cost of living in America increased only 6.30? Is America just like it was 70 years ago?   No, it has changed and change dramatically, and something that changes with time too are the people’s needs. This basically means that the minimum wage law need of a reform since it’s not covering the health and decency for which it was created in the first place. Families now can barely survive with $262 a week working 40 hours each week, within a month it turns to be $1040 .This amount of money, after being used for gas, food, daycare, etc. is not enough to sustain a American family, With that one check of a thousand dollars things are not easy at all the become hard and as the time passes harder, and what once was the American dream turns into the American nightmare.
      This so called nightmare is for 34% of Americans, an awful truth that they deal with on a daily bases. Morgan Spurlock has been the director of various controversial documentaries, like "Super Size Me" a documentary talking about obesity, and “A Christian Living...