Increasing the Minimum Wage

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This paper is an open letter to the United States Congress in regard to plans to potentially increase the federal minimum wage in order to combat poverty. The author argues that any such bills should be endorsed because they are in the long-term interests of the working poor. Increases in the federal minimum wage will have the effect of alleviating poverty in the United States.

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"The issue of whether or to increase the federal minimum wage is a significant one. The debate has become highly politicized, with proponents and opponents staunchly allied along nearly unbreakable partisan lines. Given the political nature of the debate, it can be difficult to determine the best course of action. Should the federal minimum wage be increased or not? That is the basic question. The answer to that question must be determined upon what one hopes to accomplish by voting one way or the other. If one's interest is in maintaining the stranglehold that corporate interests have on the American working poor through wage slavery, then obviously you should vote against any increases in the federal minimum wage."

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