{"id":659,"date":"2015-07-29T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T23:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/?p=659"},"modified":"2015-08-03T14:50:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T19:50:33","slug":"research-summary-3-raising-the-minimum-wage-is-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/2015\/07\/29\/research-summary-3-raising-the-minimum-wage-is-common-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Summary 3: Raising the Minimum Wage Is Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Quinn, Mike Castle, Steve LaTourette, and Connie Morella. “Raising the Minimum Wage Is Common Sense: Column.”\u00a0USA Today<\/em>. Gannett, 09 Oct. 2014. Web. 29 July 2015.<\/p>\n

The controversy related to this article is raising minimum wage. This source is relevant to the minimum wage debate because all four authors of the article were members of their respective states\u2019 house of representatives; Jack Quinn represented New York, Mike Castle represented Delaware, Connie Morella represented Maryland, and Steve LaTourette represented Ohio.<\/p>\n

I believe this article is a credible source over the minimum wage debate because as state representatives, the article\u2019s authors have firsthand knowledge about the US and it\u2019s inner-working economy. The speakers write in a credible way as they cite a lot of statistical data but also mention their political work as a way to make themselves seem more knowledgeable in the matter. The venue of the article is USA Today which is a widely known news source. Due to the fact that the source represents itself as the face of current US news and strives to do just that, it is respected by Americans and probably those in international communities that follow world news. The authors of the article embedded many links to websites of the sources where they got their information. This shows that the authors actually researched and thought out their argument instead of just stating their opinion with no facts. The authors approach their argument in a straightforward and responsible manner because they are appealing to their former colleagues who are politicians.<\/p>\n

Jack Quinn, Mike Castle, Connie Morella, and Steve LaTourette are all former state representatives that are calling their former political colleagues to raise minimum wage all over the country. They start of by saying that when they worked in Congress, they all voted in support of raising the minimum wage and encouraged others to do so. The authors then explain that the \u201cthe last time Congress voted to raise the wage to its current rate of $7.25 an hour was seven years ago.\u201d Since that time, things like groceries, gas, and college have all increased in price. The authors state that inflation had not been kept up with in terms of wage. They then note that low minimum wage isn\u2019t mostly affecting teenagers but parents who\u2019s \u201caverage age is 35\u201d and have to support children. The authors explain the unfairness of people working long hours and yet still being \u201cstuck in poverty.\u201d When they worked in Congress, the authors paired \u201cminimum wage increases with pro-tax reform.\u201d This strategy was met with majority approval. The authors argue that it\u2019s time for the \u201cRepublican Caucus to take back our party\u201d by addressing the issue of minimum wage accordingly. They explain that even an increase of the minimum wage to $10.10 would allow \u201cone in five US workers\u201d to benefit. In conclusion of their argument, the authors call on their former colleagues to raise the minimum wage because its \u201csimple common sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jack Quinn, Mike Castle, Steve LaTourette, and Connie Morella. “Raising the Minimum Wage Is Common Sense: Column.”\u00a0USA Today. Gannett, 09 Oct. 2014. Web. 29 July 2015. The controversy related to this article is raising minimum wage. This source is relevant … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rs-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}