COMS 151L Lecture 2: Outline for Persuasive Speech
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The main idea of this essay is to discuss recent talks about raising the minimum wage to dollars an hour, and how it would do more harm to the economy, rather than benefit it. Thesis: although raising the minimum wage may seem to be benefitting everybody, there is a major group that is being neglected in this process, which makes up a large sum of the market and working force, small businesses. To show the downsides of raising the minimum wage, and how it effects small business owners. Evidence, proof, and argument: provide proof as to how much an average small business is able to spend on employees, and what it can result in. For example: if a small business can only afford 2 employees while paying dollars rather than , that is one job less per every 3 people.