1) Her strategy with the lead is to show the pain that many dishwashers face. It hooks the reader with its vivid imagery.
2) While expansion of other industries leads to higher wages and opportunities but the restaurant industry does not.
3) Higher wages result in fewer jobs.
4) She says that the children of the workers alone should be enough to raise the wages but there is a larger reason, it is an effective way to combat income inequality.
5) Restaurant wooers are 10% of the workforce and a vastly disproportionate share of the low wage workers.
6) Consumers should not support restaurants they don't give their employees certain benefits and a good pay. Lawmakers should reject the demands of the National Restaurant Association.
7) The NRA is responsible for allowing restaurants to pay there workers low amounts of money.
8)Most restaurant owners blame the low wages on slim profit margins and competition.
9) Kingbury says that raising wages across the board would not end the competition.
10) Boston workers work multiple jobs because many of the jobs are part time and they don't earn enough money with just one job.
11) Fiberto Lopez's story gives the reader insight on what people think about coming to a=America and the reality of many peoples lives.
12) Wage left starts with failure to pay overtime, if restaurants makes less than 500,000$ in gross annual pay they don't have to follow federal law and pay overtime.
13) very common
14) He should allow restaurants to open easier and the overhead would be reduced and would allow more pay.
15) The story ends with a law and a quote which she says everyone should follow. I think it is an effective way of ending the story because I like how she puts "Thats a message any business owner should follow" separately.
2. The two trends -- restaurant industry exploding AND income gap is widening
ReplyDelete3. How does she dispel this contention: Hint: uses California as a example
4. That's two of the four appeals she makes: also FAIRNESS and SAVING TAXPAYER MONEY.
5. You missed the five stats she included on the following page that were specific and compelling.
7. Good but you need to explain how "tipped minimum wage" actually works.
9. More to it than this. If every restaurant has to pay higher wages, no one is disadvantaged.
11. Also humanizes story after all those statistics.
12. Also violate child labor laws and sometimes don't pay workers at all.
13. How common? That's the question.
14. Also should deny permit renewal to restaurants that practice wage theft.
You did better than some of your classmates but still missed some parts to many of these questions.
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