Tiime For A Raise

 

In he article "Time for A Raise" by Patricia Smith talks about how President Obama wants to raise federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.00 an hour, this would be the first increase since 2009. "This single step would raise the incomes of millions of working families," Obama said during his state of the union address in February. "It could mean the difference between groceries or the bank, rent or eviction, scraping by or finally getting ahead." Obama wants to raise minimum wage because inflation keeps getting higher and things are costing more, so to even it out he putting more money in people’s pockets. Obama wants to pass a law that ties medium wage to inflation so when inflation keeps raising so will minimum wage and they won’t have to pass so many laws. People also think that higher minimum wage can be a bad thing saying it could raise unemployment because store owners won’t be able to afford to keep people and will have to fire them. If not fire people they might cut back hours so even with the new wage it’s just going to even back out with the old wage. Nineteen other states already have minimum wages above the federal rate.

I’m all for the new minimum wage if it does happen because I plan on working as soon as possible but mostly in the upcoming summer and I can use all the money I get. I do see how this can hurt companies, small businesses, or even employees but I think it’s going to be good in the long run because most of the money is going back into the economy any way. I hope Obama does get the law pass but in the interim I be working and waiting

Give Lance another chace

A recent article by CNN called "Give Lance another chances" that was compose by  of six people ( Frida Ghitis, Randy Cohenm, Roxanne Jones, Jeff Pearlman, Kevin Powell, and Shawn Klein), they all make some excellent points whether Lance Armstrong deserves another chance after admitting to using performance enhancing drugs. Lance admitted it to using performance enhancing drugs on his interview with Oprah after constant denying, not being able to cycle again and being stripped of his seven tour De France titles. Ghitis says "Lance Armstrong's story of triumph over adversity captured the imagination of millions around the world, that's because Armstrong's achievements -- recovering from cancer and then breaking records in the cycling world -- made him a source of inspiration, an icon of hope." which i completely agree with he did most good then non and didn't really hurt no one. Lance is 42 probably wasn't going to do much more racing anyway and many other cyclist were also using performance enhancing drugs as well, "If many cycling fans are right, most of the top riders engaged in doping. You simply can't compete against them without doing the same. What was Lance to do? Quit the sport? And who inherits his Tour titles? Some other cheat?" said Randy Cohenm. I think Armstrong deserves another to make to make up for his wrongs and still be a good role model. Now that secrets come to let light we'll see who he really is when the cameras off.