30 Days : Minimum Wage - What I am going to write about/use

Things to consider :

1. Rich vs Poor : Income inequality(Gini's coefficient)

"Income inequality tells us zilch about the only thing that really matters: Are the lives of Americans, rich, poor, and in between, getting better or worse?"-Shikha Dalmia, on his article Liberal Programs Deserve Blame for Income Inequality

http://theswash.com/2011/11/08/liberal-programs-deserve-blame-for-income-inequality/

2. Laborer vs firm : Hemang bus(hope bus) in Korea

"The buses aspire toward a “world without layoffs and temporary workers.”"

site address of the representative cafe: http://cafe.daum.net/happylaborworld

what is Hope Bus?: http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/528.php

3. Education and Cycle of Poverty

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2006/jun/wk3/art03.htm

"Individuals with higher levels of education have greater access to higher paying jobs, such as management, professional, and related occupations, than do those with lower education."

"Simple comparisons between children in poor families and children in non-poor families using national datasets indicate that poor children are more likely to do worse on indices of school achievement than non-poor children are."

http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2330/Poverty-Education.html

4. Poverty and Health

"Poor health increases poverty by : Reducing a family's work productivity"

http://www.healthpovertyaction.org/policy/the-cycle-of-poverty-and-poor-health/

"The studies overwhelming show that for every health condition, for every disease, for every cause of death, those who have lower incomes have it much worse than those who have fatter paychecks. In other words, if you work where you have to see sick people, such as in emergency departments, you are going to see poorer people for the most part, no matter whether your hospital sits in a wealthy neighborhood, or a poor one."

http://www.zcommunications.org/health-and-poverty-in-the-us-by-stephen-bezruchka