On my classmate's blog Sweet Tea and Politics blog I found an interesting post entitled "Texas Should Raise Its Minimum Wage" this a not so talked about topic these days in Texas. I find that this topic should be talked about far more than it is, or at the very least be as talked about as all the other major topics in Texas such as Gender Equality or Cannabis Legalization. It is sad that we have not raised our minimum wages since 2009 and this should be changed immediately before we are all out on the street. If we take a look at Austin this increase is quite needed, with increasing gas, increasing rent, and increases in home and car prices the current minimum wage does not satisfy what is needed to live in Austin, this leads to more paycheck to paycheck households and a larger number of low-income houses. All these increases and yet the one place a real increase is needed has yet to happen, well I say this wage increase should happen soon and fast, there are plenty of people willing work, but when you have those people work for less than what they are worth it instills a feeling of lower self-worth, stagnation and lack of ambition. Wages and Education are alike in this way; if we want our education system to go up we need to hold our students to a higher standard and with wages if we want our workforce to increase we need to have our wages increased to set a higher standard for our workers, it's simple really you get what you paid for.
