1. The lead starts out by describing the work that a dishwasher does, humanizing them, then stating the injustice of their low pay. This is a good strategy because it strikes close to home with many ill compensated average workers.
2. The two related trends are the widening of the income gap and the explosion of the food industry.
3.Kingsbury puts down the argument that raising wages will decrease jobs by citing an example in califoria where an increase of wages will most likely lead to an increase in jobs.
4. Kingsbury uses fairness, the large amount of the workforce restaurant workers take up, and increases in the job market in result of higher minimum wages to argue her point.
5. Her statistics say that restaurant workers take up 10% of the jobs, and a huge amount of low wage workers in paragraph 5. She also says that restaurant workers have a poverty rate 3 times the average in paragraph 7.
6. She encourages consumers to pressure the industry and lawmakers to stand up to the demands of the NRA.
7. The NRA made Massachusetts make a "tipped minimum wage" which allows restaurants to give jobs with tips a lower wage.
8. Restaurants blame low wages and poor working conditions on low profits among large competition.
9. She counters these claims by saying that raising the minimum wage across the board would have no affect on competition, as everyone would have the same rules to play by.
10. Many restaurant workers have families to feed and will use every hour to do so.
11. Filiberto's paragraph adds another layer of human interest into the article, making it more relatable.
12. Restaurant workers violate the law very routinely using wage theft.
13.Wage theft is very common in Boston.
14. Kingbury wants the mayor of Boston to pass an ordinance that prevents former wage thieves from renewing their license to operate a restaurants.
15.The conclusion paragraph ends with a quote and a one-liner, which I think i pretty neat. Usually, it's only a quote, and feel the author really went the extra mile on this one..
4. She brings up the children of restaurant workers, mentions that the higher wages would lower the income gap and even says that taxpayers will save money.
ReplyDelete5. These are good but there are other stats you could also have mentioned that come after these statistics in the same series.
10. The wages are too low for one job to make ends meet.
12. How does she break down the components of wage theft?
13. How common? The article specifies.
14. Also reduce red tape to getting a permit in the first place.
Good effort. Thanks for typing these up even though you did not want to. 96.