In the situation of working post-high school at a minimum wage job‚ I would be making $10 an hour‚ with an additional $2 an hour due to my ability to fluently speak Vietnamese. Working thirty-two hours a week with a bi-weekly paycheck‚ I would be making $768 bi-weekly‚ summing up to $1536 as my monthly gross pay. However‚ my net pay would only be $1393.15 due to $142.85 going to taxes. Based on my net pay‚ I decided that I will stay at home. Moving out would not be the best option for me because
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Paul Krugman Paul Krugman is an economist. His fields of interest are international economics and macro-economics. He teaches economics and international affairs at Princeton University and London School of Economics. He received his education from MIT and Yale University. His primary contributions to the field can be summarized as International trade theory and New trade theory‚ for which he received a Nobel Prize in 2008. Paul Krugman has written any books including scholarly works and textbooks;
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cutting my losses‚ and doing what is best for myself and my child. Because the only job available to me is a minimum wage job‚ and there is no mention of a living wage law being present in this scenario‚ I would go on welfare. I am a single parent and it is my duty to be around in raising that child. The child deserves a dad who is present in every aspect of his/her development: not a father working a full-time job‚ having the stresses of living from paycheck to paycheck. I understand there is a lot
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Job hunting is tough right now‚ but absolutely not impossible. The key to finding and keeping work in tough times is the same as in good times: action. The more positive action you take‚ the better your chances of landing a great gig. 1. Be smarter‚ faster and better. I wish I could offer you a magic piece of advice about job hunting and working in a bad economy‚ a piece of wisdom that I’ve been saving for this type of situation. However‚ my best advice is to use all of the same job hunting and
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the minimum wage up through federal intervention. If he becomes successful‚ it will only cause harm to the economy‚ resulting in higher unemployment and less advancement. As I do my research I find that there are a few reasons as to why the minimum wage issue is a bad idea. Minimum wage may have an unfavorable effect on new candidates to the workforce. Those who do not have enough to too little work experience may be influenced to work for less than the existing rate. When a minimum wage is enforced
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After School Jobs (Good or Bad) Waking up at seven o’clock in the morning to get ready for school that starts at eight is already tiring by itself. You go to school for eight hours and get out around three o’clock‚ just to go home and do a little bit of your homework for an hour. Then two hours later‚ you have to go to work. This is a typical life of a teen with an after school job. Young people ranging from fourteen to eighteen years of age are frequently staffing after school jobs. Kids are not
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Price Of A Cheap Suit In our current Globalized economy‚ large US retailers have the access to exploit offshore cheap labor in order to get apparel to the racks of their stores. ‘The Price of A Cheap Suit’ is an article about the sweatshop conditions in third world companies such as Bangladesh where basic worker right conditions are not respected. Large apparel companies do not want to be associated with offshore suppliers that violate basic human rights due to immense pressure from consumers
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pollution is ‘bad’‚ eliminating all is worse than ‘bad’.” Word Count: 1150 Pollution has only become a global problem‚ or been recognised as a global problem in the last few years. The question at hand‚ of eliminating all pollution can be worse than ’bad’‚ warrants validity as it would severely decrease the standard of living (and many other technological advances that make our life pleasurable) along with the goods and services provided by the polluters. It is not feasible to eliminate all pollution
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Ortiz Cofer‚ The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria‚ the young man called the lady Maria but he did it out of the innocence. Although he didnt mean any harm‚ the Puerto Rican girl resented the stereotype. People think that all women are bad drivers and never trust their driving. They feel that women dont read properly and hence they dont follow the rules. Most of the time they cannot park the car properly. Every time they see the traffic jam or an accident they assume that it must
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Is Animal Testing All That Bad? A lot of people think that animal testing is bad‚ and that animals have rights too‚ and blah blah blah. Well‚ the truth is that animal testing has helped the medical field tremendously since the 1950s.Here are the pros of animal testing. Between 1950 and 2004‚ deaths from stroke and heart disease in the U.S fell by 72% and 63%. Also‚ AIDS related deaths in the U.S have fallen a big 70% between 1995 and 2005 alone due to animal testing! My point is‚ that no matter
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