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has been a big issue as of late. Some people think that the should be increased to counter the effects of inflation and to help lower class people. Others think it should not be increased, that a increase would lower the number of jobs on the market. It is a ....

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.... is that most earners are teenagers from families who are not poor. This meaning that raising the will not be effective in aiding those families at the lower end of the wage scale. This however is not true for it has been shown that only 11.7% of teenagers in families with above-average incomes would benefit from a higher . The opponents of a increase say that if the is increased many people will lose their jobs. Because employers can only afford to pay so much for labor, if they have to pay a higher wage per worker, than they will hire fewer workers. Studies suggest that for every 10 percent increase in the , a minimum of 100,000 jobs are ....