Minimum wage needs a raise

The current minimum wage in many states, including Nebraska, is $7.25. Those who work part time, including many college students, cannot live off of just $7.25 an hour, so they sometimes choose to work two jobs so that they can have some extra money in their pockets, especially if they have little to no help from their parents.
Workers who are exceptions from receiving minimum wage are those who are tipped employees, such as waiters or waitresses, some student workers and other exempt occupations.
According to the minimum wage website, the people that are exempt from the minimum wage include agricultural and farm employees, government employees, apprentices and learners, volunteer nonprofit workers, immediate-family employees and certain physically or mentally disabled workers.
College graduates who acquire jobs can still receive minimum wage, even though they just worked so hard to achieve a degree in a certain program.
Not only those who work part time, but some people work full time and still receiving minimum wage pay. Those who have families definitely struggle to get through the week, month and year with all of the costs of having a family: groceries, bills, gas and other expenses.
The minimum wage has not increased since 2009, and it needs to. From 2007 to 2009, the minimum wage rose each year, then stopped at 2009 and has not risen since.
However, businesses and the federal government argue that raising the minimum wage more would only cause employers to raise the prices of their products to pay their employees more. The result of that might be that the public may slow down on buying their products or stop completely and find a cheaper product to buy. The raising of the minimum wage is actually a vicious circle.
Some states do not have a minimum wage law and few states have either a higher or lower minimum wage than the federal law states. Nebraska has the same minimum wage as the federal minimum wage.
The federal government needs to raise the minimum wage for Nebraska because then college students would be able to pay for their expenses and some of their college loans and other fees. Raising the minimum wage would help families and other adults from going bankrupt or poor.