In a 1973 paper entitled "A Living Wage," published in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (vol. 409: 33-41), Daniel R. Fusfeld from the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan makes the following statement:

• "The only effective way to eliminate poverty in the United States is to pay all workers a living wage. As long as working people labor in jobs in which earnings are inadequate to meet even the poverty standards of income, their families will remain poor; furthermore, their poverty will be reproduced from one generation to the next. Our society will continue to suffer from all of the ills associated with poverty: disease, degradation, crime, hostility and anger." (p. 35)

This essay is a normative assessment of the living (or minimum) wage. In your short-answer essay, include the following elements: