Increasing Minimum Wage Essay

PVUSD increases the price of school lunch Reported by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) nutrition program, the requirement of paid lunch equity has risen, which means so will the price of school lunch. Discussing this issue with Superintendent Charles Bush of the Palo Verde Unified School District, he said that due to this increase, students and parents can expect to see an increase in lunch prices effective for the 2017-18 school year. Approving this policy at the board…

Recently a research, reported by UN, announced that only 57% people in the US are "pretty happy" in 2010. It is unexpected that 43% people in America, with abundant resources and comfortable lives, are unhappy. If these material conditions are not able to make people feel happy, how can we become happy again? Transcendentalism provides us a direction. Transcendentalism was a popular belief back to eightieth century, supporting simplicity is the path to spiritual greatness. Many…

During my introduction speech, I did feel nervous at one point of my speech, seeing that the whole audience perceived my every single movement, but I managed to keep myself calm by improvising, when I felt that I had nothing to discuss about. In addition, what helped me throughout my speech was to elaborate on the current book that I was reading, which was called “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand, and what also assisted me was to move around, so that I could avoid the fight or flight response.…

1. Why do many youths resist working for fast food restaurants when such jobs can provide a path to long-term success as a manager and potential owner? Youths today resist working in a fast food environment because they don’t want to deal with rude customers, they don’t want to deal with the busy hours, and they believe the assumption that there’s not much money in fast food positions. Working with a rude customer can be very difficult for anyone, but for young adults it could be even harder…

One Quick Way to Become Citizen In the newspaper article “A Market Solution to Immigration Reform” (Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2013). Gary Becker and Edward P. Lazear propose that selling American citizenship could improve the economy. The authors support their argument by the benefits of market-based solution to weak American Economy. Although Setting a price of perhaps $50,000 would attract those who place the highest value on citizenship. Becker and Lazear propose that not only the wealthy…

Chelsea is sick of getting stuck in traffic like this. People are always late to things, like work and school, because the traffic is so bad. Also the poor traffic can cause more crashes. When there are more crashes that makes the traffic even worse. There is way too much traffic, so the roads will be widened, and all that it will take is the tax rate being raised to 12% for a year. Chelsea has a problem. There is way too much traffic. It is the worst all around the high school and the middle…

housing for very low-income families, which was already in short supply, is only declining. In areas where housing prices are high, the poor struggle the most with the imbalance between employment and housing, which also includes a need for reasonable wages, transportation, child care and health care as well as basic nutrition. Affordable housing remains unattainable to those with little or no income as the poor continue to struggle under these conditions, in which homeownership becomes elusive.…

Social change is a product of organic resistance, in which voices are collective instead of being told what is justice. However, to ease the political consciousness of the 60’s, the rise of the volunteer sector allowed elites to control radical movements in order to professionalize social change to make it seem inaccessible to everyone. Colonization led to genocide and displacement, but also generated ideologies which discredited indigenous ways of life. These ideologies allowed America to…

I believe that officials should determine the needs of the local community and work with the human service providers a little bit closer. Currently, there are gaps in the local area because of this lack of coordination. There are many resources in my local area that include individuals, organizations and anything that can be used in improving quality of life issues. To help alleviate any communication gaps, any community stakeholders should be involved in truly assessing the needs and resources…

provide for our family. We have struggled so hard to pay for our living condition. We were promise to have good wages and work rule. What did we gain? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! We are aware that the Carnegie steel Corporation has a high profit. It is unclear why they are cutting our wages and I feel they are trying to destroy us by giving little wages. Carnegie Steel proposed an 18% wage reduction as part of a new pay scale. I disagree with that assessment because that is still not enough to…