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The cost of living increases while wages do not reflect the same. A person working for minimum wage isn't likely to afford a place to live with essential needs to also survive or merely just a place to live. The question remains is this keeping the US in poverty and depending programs to survive.

minimum wage has always been a huge topic for many hardworking Americans. I agree that the cost of living has increased due to the coivid 19 outbreak. yet our minimum wage remains the same leading to many Americans not affording the cost of living.

I agree that we need to protect the impoverished and the working class by raising the minimum wage. It is important to acknowledge that cost of living is going to follow the wages as it always does. If we want to truly change things for people with wages, then we need to establish a consistent cost of living to accompany the minimum wage.

This article talks about the present President today believes in the group that was started about black lives mattering. There are people stating that the police lives matter.

This website dives into how living near a landfill will effect your health. There are facts that describe the health conditions you could have depending on how far away you are from a landfill. It also describes how landfills work.

Living near a landfill might as well be like living in one. Although a person is not breathing in the toxins at a rapid rate it is very bad for your health to be constantly inhaling such bad air.

Since the acquittal of Trayvon Martin's killer in 2013 and the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, the phrase "black lives matter" has become a rallying cry for a new chapter in the long black freedom struggle. Th is article visits the numerous misconseptions of the movement and explains the truths in depth.

Barbara Reynolds, who was a civil rights activist in the 1960's, shares her take on the international rights group Black Lives Matter. She explores the differences in the two rights movements and why she disagrees with how this new movement is being handled.

This article talks about the ways minimum wage is nearly the same or less even when raised. It is shown that the cost of living goes up each year. This means that when we get a dollar raise prices inflate making that dollar not any more valuable. one phrase they said that I liked is that the ink doesn't get a chance to dry before it loses value.

This was exactly my thought when minimum wage was raised. What was the point if the cost of living just keeps rising and faster then the minimum wage? Working for $10 an hour after taxes and insurance take home pay won't help if the cost of milk is almost $3 maybe $2 when on sale.

This is an interesting article. While the cost of living goes up all the time, every time minimum wage goes up employers are forced to pay their employees more so they have to charge more for their services which in turn raises the cost of living.

There has been a rise in large communities of homeless people living in tents in various big cities across the United States. Many of them are living in tents instead of shelters to avoid getting COVID-19. The CDC even wants these communities to be left alone to prevent the aforementioned problem.

It's sad to see so many homeless people especially when it's due to the pandemic. Its crazy how people would rather live in a tent than be in shelters. The shelters arent doing all they can to make sure these people feel safe so I see why they would rather not be in the shelters.

This article outlines how deceiving, and even ignorant the Black Lives Matter movement really is to claim that police are racist. A Harvard Law professor and his students conducted a experiment compiled of more than 3,000 hours of data, and concluded that in fact there is a race that is more likely to be shot by police, Caucasians, as there will be the least blow-back, or media coverage from the public about racial tensions, and racist police officers. The Black Lives Matter organization as of late is based off of the idea that police are killing in cold blood based off the idea that the victims are black. This idea is ludicrous and has been debunked several times before in the past. However BLM uses deceit and raises lots of money in order to recruit, train, and buy weapons for shooters such as Micah Xavier Johnson did in Dallas. The BLM organization has strong ties, and was founded by the Black Panthers, a known terrorist organization that targets Caucasians and police officers. It deeply saddens me that people can so easily tie themselves to a movement with such rotten foundations, which is deceiving millions of innocent people and taking advantage of them, using them as martyrs.

Why should an individual worry about the next time they are going to eat or shower is? There should not be as many people as there is living in conditions like this. Someone should have a secure place to live, food, and somewhere to shower.

Nine activist voluntarily check themselves in to jail for sixteen days, protesting on immigration issues. All nine came into the United States as children, but many left because their immigration status made it difficult to live their lives here. The group re-entered by applying for Asylum and asking for humanitarian parole.

Some people against seat belt laws think that the law is unconstitutional. They say there is no real evidence to show that seat belts save lives. However people who are for the seat belt law say that there is evidence to show that seat belts save lives.

The chances of an innocent black man being gunned down by racist cops are vanishingly small. And that is good news indeed.

In this site you'll learn about the parents who are living under dangerous conditions in the Bronx. Where 90% of families live in poverty and are expected to meet circumstances that most higher income parents fail to meet. These parents are being falsely charged with unintentional neglect.

It breaks my heart to read stories like these. Sleeping in a closet is just not normal and no one should have to live like that. I feel that not enough is being done to try to help those in actual poverty.

Children whose parents are immigrants are under constant stress because of deportation. If parents get deported, children will live with the trauma of being separated. Those children will have to live their lives without their parents, which could lead to many other issues.

Covid-19 has had plenty of negative lasting affects on many lives. This article shows a lot of the ways that this pandemic has created havoc in our lives. It has risked jobs and family home have been destroyed. It creates deb that can be hard to pay back.

The Rainbow Railroad in Toronto, Canada has received hundreds of requests for help from LGBTQ+ people in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over. Afghanistan was already a dangerous place to live for LGBTQ+ people, but it has gotten even worse since their lives are now being threatened.

Gun Control is about saving people's live and not their freedom. A list of thoughts on this issue.

How close is to close. This article describes a situation in Mesa. If there is a sex offender they need to be away from schools no matter where they have lived prior to a law being passed. Our children's safety is top priority.

Is the loss of civil liberties worth the convenience of technology?

Technology has and will always be a huge part of my life. Having grown up with a brother heavily into gaming, programming, and IT work I got to see first hand the in's and out's of how the web works. It all comes down to how you manage your own security. Of course, there will always be the paranoia of being monitored but that has been happening for a long time. It all comes down to being cautious with what you do alone and or over technologies.

This book captures the many facets of information gathering by digital dossiers. It reminded me of the recent unveiled programs called Tempora and Prism used by the United Kingdom and NSA. The extent of these programs capacity to siphon user data iset deeply guarded and not known in detail, however the dossiers gathered by our internet traffic on an individual basis should alarm users. I belive privacy is priceless, if I told my grandfather who passed in 2006 the extent we divulge our personal information on social media he would probably find it unbelievable. He was born in 1920 became an officer in the United States Air Force and served in WW2. The idea of privacy has changed with each generation. The way we perceive the handheld devices we all carry as young as the age of 5, may seem to our greatest generation who is currently exiting our society as a mere tracking device for big brother. This reading was very informative.