Brandon Smith ENG 015 Spring 2019

Brandon Smith English 015 2-14-19 Letter to the Editor The issue I will be responding to is minimum wage  (https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2019/02/pennsylvania-in-dire-need-of-a-minimum-wage-increase-opinion.html) LTE #1 Dear Editor, While reading through your article on pennlive about wanting to raise the minimum wage to $15/hr I would like to respectfully disagree with you. As a college student reading this you would think that I would want the minimum wage to be increased, but I am part of the population that disagrees with you. Allow me to explain why I think this way.  Firstly, I believe minimum wage is just supposed to be a start for a first job for high school and college students. It is not supposed to be something that you are able to support a family on. That is why we have college, so we can further our education and get a job that pays well, and you are able to support your family. Do I think $7.25 is low? In some cases, yes, I do because of how...

Brandon Smith English 015 2-12-19 Letter to the Editor The issue I will be responding to is minimum wage  (https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2019/02/pennsylvania-in-dire-need-of-a-minimum-wage-increase-opinion.html) LTE #1 Dear Editor, While reading through your article on pennlive about wanting to raise the minimum wage to $15/hr I would like to respectfully disagree with you. As a college student reading this you would think that I would want the minimum wage to be increased, but I am part of the population that disagrees with you. Allow me to explain why I think this way.  Firstly, I believe minimum wage is just supposed to be a start for a first job for high school and college students. It is not supposed to be something that you are able to support a family on. That is why we have college, so we can further our education and get a job that pays well, and you are able to support your family. Do I think $7.25 is low? In some cases, yes, I do because of how...

Brandon Smith English 015 2/6/19 Letter to the Editor The issue I will be responding to is minimum wage  (https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2019/02/pennsylvania-in-dire-need-of-a-minimum-wage-increase-opinion.html) LTE #1 Dear Editor, While reading through you article I would like to respectively disagree with you. As a college student reading this you would think that I would want the minimum wage to be increased, but I am part of the population that disagrees with you. Allow me to explain why I think this way. Minimum wage is just supposed to be a start for a first job for high school and college students. It is not supposed to be something that you are able to support a family on. That is why we have college, so we can further our education and get a job that pay well, and you are able to support your family. Do I think $7.25 is low? In some cases, yes, I do because of how much gets take out in taxes. It really doesn’t require much energy flipping burgers at McDo...

Brandon Smith English 015 2-1-19 PB1B Part 1 :  Think about a public argument that you’d like to make for WP1. What issues do you care about what? What would you like to advocate  for or  against , and why? For my public argument I would like to argue that the minimum wage should be raised to an amount that someone can live off of. I would argue that is should be raised to an amount that is reasonable not what people want which is $15/hr. Minimum wage is a starting wage and it is not something that you should be able to support a family on. It is for high school students and ma ybe even some college students. I would argue this because people should make more money, but it should not get to a point where people are losing their jobs because it is too expensive to hire these people. Part 2 :  Looking ahead to WP1, you’ll need to write a Letter to the Editor (actually two of them!). Take a look back at the 3 examples that you collected for PB1A.  Wha...