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The NYT article titled, Obama Health Law: Who it helped most, gave me an interesting perspective on something that hasn’t been really talked about. It discussed whom the law helped the most. According to their findings the law helped the people who seemingly needed it most, blacks, Hispanics, and people who live in rural America. […]

I think not having a stable work schedule describes the life of many students working part-time, where their schedule changes every week and they have to figure out how to plan the rest of the week based around that. This unstable schedule forces people to realize what their priority is. Will they focus on school, […]

The Forbes article discusses the FED’s intention to raise interest rates. This past week FED chair Janet Yellen (vaguely) discussed the FED’s plan going forward. Bottom line, as the title alludes to, it is 100% a question of time not a question of if. The FED cannot justify artificial manipulation of the markets by changing […]

Reports from the Federal Reserve concerning employment rates in the past few years have consistently cited dropping unemployment rates. From 9.9% unemployment rate in 2009, the rate has slowly decreased to 5.5% this year. This 4.4% decrease is quite dramatic. Solely looking at this statistic, one can easily assume that the United States’ economy has […]

The first possible explanation for the wage gap between pre recession salaries and salaries today is that during the recession many workers were entering the workforce with no jobs available and even today there is a backup of available workers. This causes more workers than jobs available, which obviously would affect wages. Using the 2001-2002 […]

Once again, these three articles discuss the controversy of raising the minimum wage throughout the country. These articles bring about an interesting debate about the minimum wage. After reading these articles, a few points stood out to me that I was not expecting. One of them was in the guardian article. Although I was aware […]

The Forbes article brings up a very good point on whether the masses complain about income inequality. Sure, Obama talks about it, and even labels it as “the defining challenge of our time.” But is this really the case, when the average person is not speaking their mind on the topic? If there are more […]

In response to Jane Kaspervic’s article, I’ve known that waitress jobs are below minimum wage, but after tips, I thought that they were making more than minimum wage. However, this does not seem to be the case since there is income instability. Has it been considered to pay waiters and waitresses the same minimum wage […]

After reading yesterday’s articles, I was persuaded against increasing the minimum wage.  From all the statistics, it seemed to have no effect on the poor. Today’s articles also tackled issues on both sides of the spectrum. It was interesting to read about the impact of minimum wage on the restaurant industry since there are so many […]

Silence towards an issue does not make it less of one. This is especially true with the topic of inequality. While it may be true that the majority of people who may experience the less fortunate end of the impact of inequality remain relatively quiet, the issue is one hundred percent in existence, and is […]

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