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Thesis: Modest wage increases have a profound impact on people’s well…
Thesis: Modest wage increases have a profound impact on people’s well-being and happiness.
Low wages are an affront to basic dignity
The poor exhibit better executive control and a heightened willingness to participate in social services when they have been affirmed
patients who are treated with dignity by their health care provider are more likely to follow doctor’s orders, adhering to their medical care.
When people are seen and valued, they're more likely to tend to ourselves
just to afford basic necessities, Payes had to work up to 16 hours a day, seven days a week
At only 24 years old, Payes fainted from exhaustion in a grocery store.
Payes brother wanted to buy one hour of his time just to get a chance to play with him
After his payraise, Payes gets to spend more time with his family and especially his little brother Alex.
Julio Payes was working 80 hours a week at two full-time jobs.
Poverty can be unrelenting, shame-inducing and exhausting
When people live paycheck to paycheck a small setback can quickly spiral into a major trauma.
An unpaid traffic ticket can lead to a suspended license, which can cause people to lose their only means of transportation to work.
Being even a few days behind on rent can trigger fees and make it impossible to climb out of poverty.
In 2016, 2.2 million workers earned at or less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, a wage that hasn’t budged in a decade.
Cutler who now makes over $14 an hour feels better and more appreciated at work.
Payes said before he felt like a slave, but after his pay raise he feels safer and more in control of his life.
After his wages were increased, Payes swapped all that coffee and soda for water and iced tea; choosing healthy options became easier due to less working hours and strain.
Children are some of the biggest beneficiaries of minimum wage increases.
A living wage shields children from neglect
Lindsey Bullinger's study in 2017 study found that raising the minimum wage by $1 would reduce child-neglect reports by almost 10 percent.
Higher wages allow low wage earning parents to keep the lights on and the refrigerator stocked
Bullinger's studies show the positive effects of increasing the minimum wage on serious outcomes, such as reducing child abuse.
Studies have linked higher minimum wages to decreases in low birth-weight babies
A 2016 study found that between roughly 2,800 and 5,500 premature deaths occurred in New York City from 2008 to 2012 could have been prevented if the minimum wage was $15 an hour instead
These finding were surprising to the authors of the study as there is no medication or treatment as effective as a wage increase in preventing premature deaths
A living wage is an antidepressant
After his pay raise, Payes gets more sleep and can exercise so he feels better because he can devote more time to self care.
The wage increase has had a big impact on Payes' quality of life.
Higher wages ease the grind of poverty giving people the option to choose whether or not to quit or start jobs.
Payes now works less hours and is able to live better off of 48-60 hours a week rather than the previous required 80 plus.
Dr. Margot Kushel--who directs the University of California,San Francisco Center for Vulnerable Populations -- sees how a wage increase affects her patients.
When Kushel’s patients have a bit more money in their pockets, “they exercise more. They are less stressed and can quit smoking.
Kushel continued: “We will spend an incredible amount on a new heart drug. But if we increased wages by $1, we’d save more lives.”
The stress of poverty burdens the mind, causing low wage earners to make worse decisions and ignore their health.
The authors of “Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much,”
Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir, call the effects of poverty on the mind “the bandwidth tax.”
Essentially they argue that being poor reduces a person’s cognitive capacity more than missing a full nights sleep.
When preoccupied by poverty the mind can't focus on other more pertinent issues
Higher wages bring much-needed medical relief to poor workers.
Workers skip medical appointments in low wage states
Among low wage workers, studies have found strong evidence that a minimum wage increase is linked with decreased rates of smoking.
When Dr. Margot Kushel’s patients have a bit more money in their pockets,They are less stressed and are able to quit smoking.
Minimum wage prevents teenage pregnancy
In January 2018 Cutlers wage as raised to above $15 an hour from her previous $12 an hour
With this pay raise she experimented with eating healthier and could afford to buy fruits and veggies rather than her old diet of fastfood.
Cutler isn't middleclass now, but the wage increase did influence her behavior which benefited her health.
Poverty has been linked to a wide array of adverse conditions,from maternal health problems to tumor growth
The affects of the chronic stress that accompanies poverty can even be seen at the cellular level
A 2011 national study showed that low-skilled workers reported less unmeet medical needs in states with higher wages.
In high-wage states, workers were better able to pay for much needed medical care
Preventive Medicine's recent review argues that poverty wages, could be occupational hazards
From the perspective of disease prevention and workplace hazards there is little difference between low wages and workers’ being exposed to harmful chemicals or cruel conditions.