Minimum Wage In America

Minimum Wage has affected most people in the United States and causing millions to be disappointed. The problem is that minimum wage is too low and jobs are affected by minimum wage and all of workers in the United States has worked hard and need chances in higher minimum wage. Minimum wage imposes a wage floor that prices cheap out of the market, reducing the pool of low wage jobs.

Its an important problem because people of the United States are complaining on how low it is and it could not be enough for health issues , minimum wage has affected workers throughout the economy. Minimum wage was mented to be a tool for combination of poverty and preventing unfair wages. Some argue that it has a more negative effect than positive. …show more content…
It began in america at the end of the 1800s during the 18th and 19th century most children would work at their homes, parent workshops, or either at a farm. There was an increase on the work of women and children in their household. In the 1760s several shops were took over by a new product of wool and cotton they found wool and cotton more efficient to have carded and fill in the workshops. Sometimes woman spun wool and dyed it and the workshops later became factories. The cotton industry in New England brought the Industrial Revolution to America and the beginning of industrial labor force.

In 1789 Moses Brown and William Almy had invited Samuel Slater which is know as “the father of manufactures” to partner up to own the Rhode Island factory. He joined Almy and Brown and produced yarn in 1791 and for the first time in America raw cotton to yarn was worked in the factory by machinery. Children too young could not work in the factories they still worked at home. The Slater factory was a practice for children and a new industrial system of labor and power machinery that were new ideally suited for employment of children. In 1809 there were an estimated number of employees in the cotton mills as of 4,000 in total 500 men, 3,500 woman and there …show more content…
Children formed 47 percent of labor force in massachusetts , 55 percent in Rhode Island and Connecticut. Samuel Slater had followed the english plan to employ all families. The family system are much greater than small factories in Southern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Under this family system rural families moved to the mill and lived in a cramped up community build and owned by the company. They paid 25 cents per week for rent and every single member of the family above the age of 7 had to work in the factory from sunrise to sunset, 7 days a week. There only days off were Christmas, 4th of july, and easter. Children’s wages were based on their age, mostly children under the age of 10 received 50 cents per week some companies pay up to 37 cents per week. 50 cents is the standard pay in the Slater factory. Children from 11 to 16 years earned $1.67 a week, men from $4.50 to $5.25 a week and women $2 a week. In 1814 the company store of Slater Mill had charged $1.34 for corn, 16 cents for a bag of potatoes and a pound of soap ,9 cents for a pound of flour, 23 cents for a pound of sugar, and $2 for a pair of shoes. Families barely paid for these items except for beef, tobacco, and

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