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For your minimum wage assignment:
1) Find five photos online that scream minimum wage to you and save them to your computer so you can then embed those photos in your wiki. Be sure to copy the webpage you got the picture from and paste it under each image in your wiki using "Control V". Make sure you copy the original page that is hosting the image, not the Google page that redirects to it. For example: http://www.psaresearch.com/bib9808.html NOT: https://www.google.com/search?q=poverty&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=o3UcU4P9N-Xf2AXF6IHYCg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=650#q=poverty+in+the+usa&tbm=isch&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=MHawgR1TGOSEQM%253A%3BliUERZFccmxwUM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.psaresearch.com%252Fimages%252Fpoverty_americas_forgotten.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252F

2) Center each picture in your page then write a one paragraph (five to sentences or more) response as to why the picture speaks to you. Some topics to focus on: Why does this picture highlight the plight of minimum wage earners? What are some of the alternatives for non-minimum wage earners? How do these people receive extra help/should they receive extra help? Why should people see these pictures? Or anything else that you think someone earning minimum wage would want people to know.

3) Research Minimum Wage Laws that are being debated now or were recently passed. Write a three paragraph response (your opinion supported by the facts you found out) to the following statement: The Minimum Wage should be raised to $10.10 an hour for all workers in the U.S. You need to find information from at least three sites and list those sites at the conclusion of your writing piece. Here is an example article you might want to read. Here is an example of a trusted website you can do research on. You may use one of my two links but not both, so be sure to find at least two websites or articles on your own.

How to Upload an Image or File

 * 1) Edit a page
 * 2) Click the File button on the Editor Menu (It is in the middle of the bar by Widget).
 * 3) Under **Upload New File** choose **Browse...**
 * 4) Browse your computer for the picture and click OK/Open
 * 5) Click **Upload**

Insert Picture onto page

 * 1) Put your cursor (in the page) where you want the image to go
 * 2) Double-click the picture
 * 3) Picture will insert into page

Example of one picture and paragraph (you need five):

Source: http://www.franklycurious.com/index.php?itemid=3979

This picture shows how much a minimum wage earner makes in each state. You can see that states that are red pay their workers even less than the federal government says they should be paid. That means that is must be pretty hard for people to live in those states because they don't make a lot of money. I think that people should move to green states, like Washington or California because they pay their basic workers more. That way if someone had to drop out of high school or could not find a job, they could still make enough money to live on. If I could move to California I would because I want to be able to work at Hollister and go to college at UCLA. If Hollister had to pay me $8.00 an hour or more, I could afford my books and food while I am in college.

Example of another picture: Source: http://www.psaresearch.com/bib9808.html Children make up less than 30 percent of the population of the United States, but they’ re 100 percent of our future. Yet, right now, more than 12,000,000 precious dreams of a better tomorrow are being threatened by a struggle to secure enough food, shelter and medical attention to survive. According to the US Census Bureau, one out of every six children – that’ s 16 percent of all our children - is living in a state of poverty. Overall, more than 31 million Americans live in poverty today - a population greater than the state of Texas, Florida or New York - but you won t find it on any map. Despite the fact that America s economy has been thriving in recent years, our child poverty rate is higher than most other industrialized nations. A big contributor to this problem is that the parents of these children do not make enough money to feed, clothe, or even sometimes house them. If we were to raise the minimum wage, create more jobs and create more social programs for the poor, less children would go to bed hungry every night.