The Negative Effects of Raising Minimum Wage in America

Negative Effects of Raising Minimum Wage

Raising the minimum wage isn’t always the best course of action for the American economy as a whole. The recent push to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour has many negative effects that few people take into consideration. There are effects of raising the minimum wage. There are many negative effects of raising the minimum wage in the United States, in fact. Does the minimum wage need to increase? Maybe it does. Does it need to more than double, jumping to $15 per hour across the country? Probably not – I think that it’s a bad idea. There are negative effects of raising the minimum wage too much and too fast. According to a recent LendEDU poll, 52% of Millennials do … Read more

Tipping Tips – Your Excessive Tipping Causes Poor Service

How To Save Money Eating Out At Restaurants

My friend Greg and I were eating at a restaurant the other day when he started complaining about the amount I tipped our server. He thought that it was excessive tipping and accused me of ruining service for the rest of us who would later come into contact with that server. He said it reinforced bad service. I wasn’t always excessively tipping servers at restaurants. It was quite the opposite in fact. My wife has changed the way that I tip servers at restaurants. I’ll say right up front that I’ve never worked in the foodservice industry. I don’t know anything about it other than being a customer. When I met my wife, I gave a standard 15% tip for average … Read more