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The Effects of a Higher Minimum Wage
When I was eleven years old my parents told me that they could not afford to buy me new school clothes that year. So, in my desperation for some new school clothes I started working. I did odd jobs on farms for family and friends, as well as babysitting. I worked that whole summer of my 6th grade year, and I continued to work every summer up until my senior year in high school when I started to work full-time. I started helping pay my parents rent when I was thirteen and bought most of my own food as a young adult. I bought all of my cars, and I am paying for my own school. So you might ask “why were we so poor? Was it because you had deadbeat parents? Did they not work full-time? What? Why were you so poor?” Well my dad; even though was a very hard working man, he did work at a dead end job and my mom could not find a full-time job until I was thirteen, and neither of them made a whole lot of money. Now I always thought that if the......

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