Late Edition: My apologies the end of my blog was a let down. I did not fully develop my thoughts. First I do agree with raising minimum wage would work and I agree with all those you disagreed with me. This is funny but I meant an individual worker going into their minimum wage job and demanding their Boss for a raise that high. That would not work, just to have their boss laughing at them, and if the worker quits he can simply replace him with someone that will work. And I know this by my personal experience working at Fast food. Our professor asked me the same thing. I cannot propose what will work to solve this tough issue. Drastic measures do need to be taken. I just wanted to be clear on that. I wished they raised the minimum wage so we would not have to worry as much about finances. As I mentioned in blog five. Thank you all

Blog Eight

In the blog Going Green? Written by Savanna Williams, she talks about how Austin’s drought has gotten better due to the recent weather we’ve been having. But that’s no excuse for us to waste water through our sprinkler systems in areas like dog parks and walking trails. Austinites do enjoy there outdoorsy life style, but there will be a price to pay if our resources are dried up. Ms. Williams puts blame in the rightful place on our local government because they should rethink the sprinkler system. As more than half the water goes into the streets.

            Ms. Williams’s blog is well detailed with examples of what she seen about this problem and what leaders should do about it. The second half of her blog explains how there’s only one place to recycle/ compost in a huge shopping area where she’s employed. She try’s not to imagine other shopping areas where there’s no recycle bin or compost station at all. I agree and I can imagine for her, that’s there’s TONS of places in Austin where plastics bottle and aluminum cans are being wasted. For example even some places small like the park by my job near 183. It’s a very popular park where many people are in and out daily. And it’s sad to see the trash cans are overflowing with bottles, cans, plastic and other garbage that can be easily recycled.  Local leaders say it may take time and money to implement plans to go green.

            I do agree with Ms. Williams about this blog and how we need to take a serious look in how we treat our environment. After all this is a great city like she mentioned and I as well am glad to be born and raised in it.

Blog Seven

Child poverty is increasing in Texas is harsh to say. But the truth hurts. According to an article in The Texas Tribune a report was release recently stating there’s a 47 percent increase in the rate of Texas children living in poverty from 2000 to 2011. The growth rate in population is only 18 percent during the same period. With this information it raises many issues for the future of our youth. Poverty is a key measure of a child well-being. It can be extremely harsh stress on the development on their brains and bodies. Also alters gaps in health and education.

            Why is child poverty so high in Texas? What causes poverty? According to census data Texas was one of two states that saw its overall poverty rate drop between 2011 and 2012. The reason why child poverty rate has grown in Texas is because of our low unemployment rate, which has a high rate of jobs that pay minimum wage or less. My personal experience working a minimum wage when I was 16 was good. You don’t have many bills to pay and you don’t have to support anybody, just extra money in your pocket. It’s much different for adults who have a spouse and kids who they need to support and cannot find a full time job. They resort to a minimum wage job and the income from that job or two or three is not making ends meet. The poverty will continue to happen and increase if changes don’t come to the unemployment rate.

            How can we fix this? What can be done? Some workers are making extreme decisions as to walk off their jobs and demand $15an hour instead of the minimum wage or $7.25 an hour. The measures they take are understandable, but don’t thinks that going to ultimately work.