{"id":413,"date":"2014-01-28T00:51:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T00:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?p=413"},"modified":"2014-07-13T05:36:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T05:36:03","slug":"a-fair-days-pay-for-a-fair-days-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA fair day\u2019s pay for a fair day\u2019s work\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing how far our country has come from Franklin D. Roosevelt\u2019s declaration. There was concern about what workers\u2019 should make for their labor. Where has it gone? In Arindrajit Dube&#8217;s\u2019s opinion piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/30\/the-minimum-we-can-do\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20131202&amp;_r=0\">The Minimum We Can Do<\/a> (<i>The New York Times<\/i>, 2013), he discusses and asks questions concerning today\u2019s federal minimum wage policies. Dube wants to know what should be done. Yet, isn\u2019t that what everyone would want? What is fair? \u00a0However, the amount of minimum wage is what is creating inequality.<\/p>\n<p>This article brought me back to a previous course assignment which truly changed my perspective. The assignment was to visit the internet website <a href=\"http:\/\/inequality.is\/real\">inequality.is<\/a> and interact with the program. It showed statistics and situations that have led to where inequality is today. It provided comparisons of my possible income based off of my gender, ethnicity, age and education, which are all factors Dube discusses in his article. It was insightful to see the varying amounts depending on if I said I was White or Hispanic. No matter what, I had a lower income because I was a female.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that prejudice is a factor in those suffering from hunger and homelessness? Reflecting back on people I have seen on the streets and gave money to, the factors seen in both Dube\u2019s article and the inequality.is interactive hold true. The concept of \u201ca fair day\u2019s pay for a fair day\u2019s work\u201d is no longer relevant. Our country needs to stop doing the minimum in order for all to receive the maximum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing how far our country has come from Franklin D. Roosevelt\u2019s declaration. There was concern about what workers\u2019 should make for their labor. Where has it gone? In Arindrajit Dube&#8217;s\u2019s opinion piece, The Minimum We Can Do (The New York Times, 2013), he discusses and asks questions concerning today\u2019s federal minimum wage policies. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=413\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cA fair day\u2019s pay for a fair day\u2019s work\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,11,9,15,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-causes-homeless","category-causes-hunger","category-causes-poverty","category-homelessness","category-hunger","category-poverty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47OlK-6F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}