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Just interesting. Iowa and many other states are at $7.25 per hour which is the federal minimum. The highest is Washington with $9.19 per hour.

All I gotta say: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9aXaeheYFw&oq=make%20money%20money&gs_l=youtube..0.5j0l9.230.2220.0.3225.18.10.1.2.2.0.291.1751.1j6j3.10.0.eytns%2Cpt%3D-27%2Cn%3D2%2Cui%3Dt.1.0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.iTys_8HpYtw

I would love for minimum wage to be increased..but honestly I'm scared for other things to be increased also.

"TSA Spent $900 Million on Behavior Detection Officers Who Detected 0 Terrorists"

Things like this really upset me because why are we spending so much money on things that aren't successful? I think that only if they do their job should they get paid and not even that much money. Our government spends money so stupidly that I wish people that actually need money could receive it instead of people that aren't even struggling.

"Ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to… Football World Reacts To Michael Vick's Current 40 Time One of the nation's largest states is taking on Big Tech.  Pause Current Time 0:13 / Duration 7:08 Loaded: 7.04% Unmute 0 Fullscreen VP Harris speaks out in support of Newsom as he faces recall election Click to expand Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is likely to sign into law a bill that would prevent social media companies Facebook, Twitter and Google's YouTube from "deplatforming" politicians such as former President Donald Trump."

I completely agree with this idea. Social media cannot stop the president/ politicians from spreading their ideas and opinions as they shouldn't be able to for anyone else. They should get treated the same and if anything is better for us as people to see what they post and get better/ easier insights on their personal views. We have the right to know our president's views and they have the right to express them. Especially since so many people are on social media it helps educate people better than just reading what the news say that they say.

I dont agree with this becuase it's dumb why would a state be able to control what a private owned company does or doesn't do.

"Those wondering how many zeros Amazon, which is valued at nearly $800 billion, has to pay in federal taxes might be surprised to learn that its check to the IRS will read exactly $0.00."

Here is the wikipedia article about the "Occupy Movement" to help make this cartoon more clear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement

The pepper spraying cop has become an internet meme already: http://goo.gl/in1PY

I think this is the perfect example of legitimacy issues... http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/internet-memes-sprout-around-occupy-movement-from-pepper-spraying-cop-to-occupy-sesame-street/2011/11/23/gIQA0BLApN_story.html

This I think will revolutionize the textbook industry. Textbooks for high schools run close to $100, Apple able to sell digital copies for $15 is simple amazing. Schools might now adapt iPads and save money in the long run on text books. Also iBook Authors could change the book industry the way that iTunes changed the music industry. We will have to give all of these new services a year and then we will see if Apple can dominate another major industry.

Yes Brice! I think this will change a lot in the education world.

A suggestion of what it will be like if SOPA goes through http://www.extremetech.com/internet/109335-universal-music-group-claims-right-to-block-any-video-on-youtube?obref=obinsite

Companies** And i think this is great.

hey dustin! keep your fancy spelling to yourself sir!

I like this idea because Athletes should be having good grades. Other cities and states should take this idea!

i think that every school should do this because sports is just an activity and if the students don't have good grades then they should not be able to play

"More than two thirds of the 177 countries included in the 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index scored below 50, where 0 indicates the country's public sector is seen as highly corrupt and 100 as very clean."

Interesting way to rank the countries. I could see those 3 nations as the "most corrupt." Then again, there's probably stuff going on behind the curtain in other nations that we don't know about. Wouldn't surprise me :P

"Delayed paychecks, reduced working hours, and stalled contracts led to a loss of about $11 billion in gross domestic product over the five-week shutdown. About $8 billion of that will be recovered as workers return, but $3 billion or 0.02% of gross domestic product in 2019 will never be recovered, according to the CBO."

"I've been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial."

This is terrible! They are doing far more harm than good keeping him there.

Thats crazy, its really bad when people are refusing to eat when they are already starving.

the government shuld not have to provide free birth control for women if their not going to use methods of not getting pregnant

I think this page will help you boys understand a little more about what birth control actually is: http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/features/other-reasons-to-take-the-pill Personally, I think that it should be covered by insurance. Besides being a popular contraceptive, it control many different hormones in a woman's body. It's used to cure things like ovarian cysts, and irregular periods. It can relieve those pesky cramps that you get on your period, or just at random points of the month. It will clear your acne, and even help prevent cancers. And, the hormones being consumed by taking the pill, can balance our emotions, possibly making us more tolerance of ignorance towards women's health. The church aspect of this story is, in my opinion, ridiculous. Them refusing to cover a product that would help their employees be healthier, prettier, nicer, and more likely to remain cancer free, is unreasonable. Just because the typical use is frowned upon by their religions, doesn't mean it's right to make their employees spend their hard earned money on measures to maintain a healthy body, that could be covered by their companies insurance.

I don't see why taking measures to prevent a pregnancy is so bad. People are always saying that teenagers are getting pregnant at a young age when the truth is, maybe these girls can't afford it. No, they should not be having sex so young but sometimes you have to face the fact that girls are having sex at a young age and instead of turning a blind eye, they should take measures to prevent the pregnancy from happening. Just like Kirsten said, it does more than just preventing pregnancies. Some girls need it and can't afford it.

some kids are more emotionally balanced and the pressure just happens to get to them more

Clinton going against her statements from previous campaigns yet again when she refused, also again, to debate with Democratic rival Bernie Sanders.

She blew Sanders off and said some mean stuff about Trump.

Clinton is a savage

And the other highlights from his speech: * Mr. Trump made the case that Washington elites and the media have put the focus, wrongly, on the plight of an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country, rather than the Americans impacted by their presence.

In the trip Trump and the president of Mexico sat in the conference room and talked about the wall that is going to be built on the Southern border of the US but, claimed by Enrique the president of Mexico he sates that Trump told him that Mexico was going to pay for the wall and move all 11 million undocumented migrants back into Mexico..

Unemployment dropped by 0.3 percentage points, to 4.6 percent, last month - the lowest rate since 2007 - according to the monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report says the U.S. added 178,000 new jobs in November. That's about what economists had expected.

This is definitely beneficial to the economy that there are more people in the country working, though the decrease in wages seems bad, the overall benefit is much greater. And plus its still greater than it was last year so it's all good