1.They hook the reader by describing the terrible conditions that restaurant dishwashers are in. This pulls the reader in by giving human interest.
2.There are higher wages and greater opportunities offered.
3.Restaurant workers have low wages and raising the wages would cause fewer jobs.
4.Children of workers are affected and raising the wage could help bring more people out of poverty.
5.The gap between rich and poor is beginning to rise to levels before the stock market crash of '29.
6.Consumers should not support the restaurants that underpay workers. Lawmakers make minimum wage minus tips be minimum wage and tips will be extra.
7. The NRA is plays the role of allowing restaurants to underpay workers.
8. Restaurant workers say that they don't make much profit and competition so they cant pay their workers well.
9. Kingsbury says that raising wages across the board will not end the competition. Raising wages will cause higher prices in the food but that will cause higher wage for workers and the workers will be more reliable.
10.They don't get paid enough to sustain.
11.This adds an emotional element and makes the reader see a real example about how workers are treated and not just statistics.
12. Restaurant owners don't pay for overtime and pay way under minimum wage, break child labor laws, and even fail to pay workers at all.
13.Wage theft is common all over Boston not just struggling neighborhoods.
14.He should allow restaurants to open easier and that would allow a higher wage.
15. I think the conclusion paragraph should be more powerful. It is not typical.
2. No. Quite the opposite. The restaurant industry is exploding as income inequality is increasing. Kingsbury says these are related trends.
ReplyDelete3. Yes, this is the argument she dismissed, but how does she dismiss it?
4. That's two of the four arguments (also fairness and that it would save taxpayers money).
5. She offers five specific statistics to support her claim that restaurant workers are more likely to be poor.
6. Your sentence about lawmakers has some of the correct information, but the sentence doesn't make any sense.
7. Yes but how?
9. Her point is that all restaurants will have to play by the same rules.
10. Again, you have the start to a correct answer, but you don't finish the sentence. To sustain what?
14. Also should crack down on restaurants by not renewing permits for restaurants proven to be committing wage theft.
15. But how is it written differently?
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