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Desmond, Matthew. “The $15 Minimum Wage Doesn't Just Improve Lives. It Saves Them.” The
New York Times, The New York Times, 22 Feb. 2019,
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/minimum-wage-saving-lives.html.

The article that I found a strong interest I had reading about was called “Dollars on the Margins”.
I found this article on the New York Times Magazine and was written by Matthew Desmond. I
have always found interest in dealing with money and politics, with this in mind, I choose an
article that dealt with the minimum wage crisis in the United States. The the main problem in
this article is that the fact that the minimum wage is too low for someone to work just one job.In
the article, Julio payes works in California and has to work two full time jobs to make ends meet.
It even goes into detail to tell the read that Mr. Payes works the “graveyard shift at a 24-hour
Mcdonald’s” and by working at Aerotek from eight am to four pm. While doing more research
around the business plan of aerotek, I found out that is an engineering firm that deals with the
aerospace and defense industry. Mr. Payes most of had one of their many warehouse jobs
when you would work long hours moving in and moving out inventory and shipping it to different
parts of the nation. After a while, Pays would work towards the getting the minimum wage up to
$15. This would lead him to protest in the fight against a 7.25 minimum wage and help out all
the families that work jobs that require them to earn minimum wage. If we can tell from Mr.
Payes, this minimum wage increase help out many of americans because, this would allow
them to work less hours and to have better work ethics and better quality of work when only
working 40 hour week instead of the 80 hour weeks just to make ends meet.One stat that they
state in this article is that “A 2016 study published in the American Journal of Public Health
found that between roughly 2,800 and 5,500 premature deaths that occurred in New York City
from 2008 to 2012 could have been prevented if the city’s minimum wage had been $15 an hour
during that time, instead of a little over $7 an hour”. That is crazy to think about, just image
around 2,800 to 5,500 people die because, they didn’t have the right funding because, a lack of
money. The simple fix would have been to raise their minimum wage, but instead they suffered
and caused them their lives. We don’t want any more stories of people dying due to a lack of
money. We as a nation to come together and figure out a solution that everyone can be content
with and would make everyone happy. Because, I believe that a 15 dollar minimum wage is a
little out of retreat as a nation, but it needs to be raised from 7.25.