The attempt by the federal government and state was found only beneficial to certain minimum waged paying employees and was unsuccessful to the goal of reducing poverty proving to be a poor system. ... One of the major key reasons behind this collection of data was due that majority of the poor do not even have a job in the first place rendering them ineligible for the benefits of pay increase, the statistical data found in this analysis reports to be far greater than expected reaching over 54 percent of the poor ( Sabia and Nielsen, 2012). ... By increasing minimum wage unemployment rates in...

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