"By increasing workers' take-home pay, families gain both financial security and an increased ability to purchase goods and services,
Another popular argument is that if the minimum wage is raised people will lose jobs. In this case does that mean people will be able to spend more, but that there will be less people to do the spending?
An employee working a 40-hour week at the federal minimum wage would earn $15,080 per year. This income would leave a two-person household -- say, a single parent with one child -- just below the federal poverty threshold of $15,130.
Some would say that these people simply need to get more jobs or find a better one.
$15 per hour.
This is the same rate that EMS personnel, workers who have gone through years of medical training, are paid. Do people who flip burger's at Mc'Donald's deserve the same rate as people who save lives?
McDonald's fast food workers remained abysmal.
Some people argue that working in industries like fast food is supposed to be a "stepping stone job" and that increasing minimum wage encourages people to remain there instead of seeking out real work.
But despite these notable exception
the other thing that is not concession
I am not unmindful of the fact that each of you has taken some significant stands on this issue. I commend you, Reverend Stallings, for your Christian stand on this past Sunday, in welcoming Negroes to your worship service on a nonsegregated basis. I commend the Catholic leaders of this state for integrating Spring Hill College several years ago.
concession
They are still all too few in quantity, but they are big in quality
verbal irony
Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."
appeal to "authority" here, and more throughout. Make a statement and support it with well-known people. Can be both valid and invalid form of evidence.