Media Power: Case Study of US Minimum Wage

INTRODUCTION Because newspapers are the main means of promoting ideology, politicians, target readers, and advertisers are all involved in deciding how to report stories ("Media Prejudice", 2014). In the United States, prejudice of the media is divided into liberal, conservative, and enterprise ("American Media Prejudice", 2014). According to Fairclough (2001), language is the main medium of power relations and ideology, contributing to the control of a particular group. Through power relationship, Fair Cliff means the difference in power between class, gender, ethnicity, and social system (2001).

The detailed history of 2A's simplest wage employment debate can be seen in Brown (1999), Neumark and Wascher (2008), and Baleman and Wolfson (2014). Past research on minimum wages and employment is usually a nationwide study using local case studies focusing on employment in certain low-skill industries, or employment panel data of youth or restaurants. Local case studies usually have no effect. Nationwide team data research using traditional methods is often a new approach to address issues related to minimum wage - employment elasticity in the range of -0.1 to -0.3, and unobserved heterogeneity, statistical Find significant negative impact on employment. There is no usual effect

When Seattle began moving to a minimum wage of $ 15, the city hired a team of economists at the University of Washington and analyzed the impact of wages on the city. Since then, the findings of Seattle's Minimum Wage Research Group are highly favorable. In 2016 they discovered that Seattle 's wage increased, city' s employment of low employment increased, and time worked. They reported earlier this year that the impact of wage increases on restaurant employment was almost zero. This week, the Seattle minimum wage research group's final survey, the Seattle minimum wage research group announced a report that the prices of restaurants and grocery stores did not rise due to the minimum wage.

Economists always believed that the minimum wage would destroy employment opportunities for low-wage workers. Nonetheless, many studies have found that young workers have little effect on the minimum wage. However, in a recent NBER study, the minimum wage in France and the United States, the employment of young people (NBER Working Paper No. 6111), John Abowd, Francis Kramarz, Thomas Lemieux, David Margolis, It was found out that it exercised. In American youth groups, their low wages make them the most dangerous level.