Unit 4 WIP - Minimum Wage

For my next post, I will be discussing the idea of minimum wage from the point of view of an economist and a sociologist. I have decided to write about the minimum wage because it is something that affects a significant amount of today’s workforce, and it also plays a big role on the economy of a country with a minimum wage. I have also worked a job that pays minimum wage, and I have always wondered what life is like for those who fully depend on it.

I will be performing a rhetorical analysis on two scholarly articles, one written from an economist and the other a sociologist. The article written by the economist talks about how minimum wage encourages a big push, otherwise known as the increase of formal employment and decrease in informal employment, which influences the equilibrium wage level in a way that favors employees. The sociologist’s article discusses whether minimum wage helps the poor or not, and the sociologist comes to a conclusion that minimum wage does not help the poor. These two articles are applicable and noteworthy to us because we live in a country with minimum wage, and we must determine for ourselves if the minimum wage is something that can benefit or damage our personal lives and economy we live in. The rhetorical analysis will be useful here because the different rhetorical methods of each author influences the reader in different ways, and the rhetorical analysis will help to understand which rhetorical methods are more convincing. The article with more effective rhetorical methods will ultimately influence the reader for or against minimum wage.