The One Percent made by Jamie Johnson, of the Johnson and Johnson family, on economic inequality. He digs into the working poor’s problems and he tries to talk to members of the upper-class. His own father refuses to talk about their own situation as one of the wealthier families. Yet he works on making this film without his family’s support. He brings up the workers on sugar cane fields. These farmers were employing immigrants but didn’t keep safety standards up to regulation. This really showed you that people will do anything to make more money. By not spending more money on housing or safety these farmers were making more profits off their workers. Not even paying some of them minimum wage. This made the workers life harder as they could be injured easily and then be out of work. When the farmers were forced to mechanize parts of the farming process it created a smaller demand of workers. This means more people without jobs. …show more content…
They were forced to steal yet the police were there to stop them. No one was there to help them. They couldn’t leave, they had no where to go and no way of getting there. Their employers evacuated so there was no job left for them, no money. The police weren’t helping them get to safety. They could wait for hours to get provided rations but waiting that long meant death for some and these conditions were harsh on the children. Watching them drag a dead body away was heartbreaking because so many people could have prevented this but nobody thought about the working poor, those that didn’t have
The Story “The Price of Crossing Borders” was written by Eduardo Porter. The story, “The Price of Crossing Borders” is Eduardo putting his opinion into words about the illegal Immigrants. He explains in many different ways how they help but, he also explains how many natives don 't consider their “help” as help. Eduardo believes the illegal immigrants can help the business industry, but that means the middle class actually working man and women has a chance of losing their job, or job opportunities to a person who shouldn’t even be in this country. in other words Eduardo is supporting the immigration of illegal immigrants.
In the late nineteenth century, many European immigrants traveled to the United States in search of a better life and good fortune. The unskilled industries of the Eastern United States eagerly employed these men who were willing to work long hours for low wages just to earn their food and board. Among the most heavily recruiting industries were the railroads and the steel mills of Western Pennsylvania. Particularly in the steel mills, the working conditions for these immigrants were very dangerous. Many men lost their lives to these giant steel-making machines. The immigrants suffered the most and also worked the most hours for the least amount of money. Living conditions were also poor, and often these immigrants would barely have enough money and time to do anything but work, eat, and sleep. There was also a continuous struggle between the workers and the owners of the mills, the capitalists. The capitalists were a very small, elite group of rich men who held most of the wealth in their industries. Strikes broke out often, some ending in violence and death. Many workers had no political freedom or even a voice in the company that employed them. However, through all of these hardships, the immigrants continued their struggle for a better life.
The critics argue that significant numbers of illegal immigrants harm the economy by displacing low-skilled natives, and depressing the wages but in reality, who works in farming occupations? Who works in cleaning occupations? Who works in food preparation occupations? Last but not least, who works on constructions and countless other heavy and dangerous jobs? The immigrants do. If one is truthful and honest, he/she will agree with one on that. The majority of the native Americans do not like to work on these jobs. As for some of the companies, it will be tough for them to sustain without illegal immigrants. According to Peter Katel in his article “Illegal Immigration,” it states that, “Indeed, some sectors of the economy might have a hard time functioning without illegal workers,” which supports Pilardi’s stance.
...rked as unskilled laborers in the new factories. Most were poor, disgruntled, and found that America was not what they had expected when they left their native countries. The city bosses provided aid to these immigrants and then gained their political support. They unfairly took advantages of the immigrants to gain power, which helped them to gain the money they were seeking. The immigrants had a difficult life because most of them were crowded into ghettos and slums. They received low wages and faced dangerous and unhealthy working conditions daily. Concentration increased and living quarter size proportionately decreased. The immigrants experienced poor sanitation and contagious diseases and most did not have any plumbing or ventilation. They had a difficult and sad life, and many were more happy in their oppressive homelands than industrialized America.
From my standpoint it is hard to believe that people can kill thousands of innocent people and still sleep at night. I believe that what happened is wrong and disturbing, however, the story of Paul Rusesabagina and the refugees is an example of hope. This story shows that in the middle of the end for some, there can be one person that is willing to stand up, take charge, and lead. Paul’s courage throughout this entire story is something that we don't see a lot in this world anymore. His good heart and fearless leadership shows that even in the hardest of times, anything is possible. It shows that there is good and hope in every situation. This is why it is important to never give up, and always try to make the best of every situation.
The United States cannot afford to lose the economic gains that come from immigrant labor. The economy would be suffering a greater loss if it weren’t for immigrants and their labor contributions, especially during the 2008 U.S. recession. The U.S. economy would most likely worsen if it weren’t for the strong labor force immigrants have provided this country. Despite the mostly negative views native-born Americans have towards immigrants and the economy, their strong representation in the labor forces continues today. Immigrants aren’t taking “American” jobs, they are taking the jobs that Americans don’t want (Delener & Ventilato, 2008). Immigrants contribute to various aspects of the economy, including brining valuable skills to their jobs, contributing to the cost of living through taxes, and the lacked use of welfare, healthcare, and social security when compared to native-born Americans, showing that the United States cannot afford to lose the contribution immigrants bring into the economy.
As people immigrated to the United States, legally and illegally, particularly Hispanic workers, they began to look for jobs to provide for their families. They took jobs that Americans did not want: they accepted the low-paying, physically-demanding, and temporal agriculture jobs. Since many did not speak English and were uneducated, some even illiterate, they were easy targets for farm owners to exploit. Immigrant workers were often not paid, had low wages, and because of such conditions, some even died. In addition, they also lived and worked in appalling conditions, some workplaces did not even have suitab...
Mexican immigrants in the United States are willing to work hard and long hours throughout the day regardless of the amount of sleep or rest they may get. Conversely, this is not how Efren Mendoza, a public city bus driver, views Mexicans and he believes they are not motivated to achieve things in life. One would assume that he would understand how difficult it is for immigrants to assimilate in a new foreign country without knowing anyone or anything here, but he is not on their side and it is somewhat hypocritical of him because he himself is Mexican. It is as though Efren sees his own people as invisible individuals because he does not acknowledge all their hard work and sacrifices they may have gone through in order to arrive in the United States. He further proves his insincerity when he mentions that the “new wetbacks [are] picky about what jobs they’ll do [and that they] half-ass [the] work” that they are given to do (77).
A common argument among those opposing further immigration is that foreigners take U.S. jobs and cause unemployment among the displaced American workers. In the July 13, 1992 edition of Business Week , a poll states that sixty-two percent of non-blacks and sixty-three percent of blacks agree that "new immigrants take jobs away from American workers." This is a widely held, if erroneous belief, among Americans. However, Julian L. Simon, author of The Economic Consequences of Immigration , states:
Thompson, Art. “Illegal Immigration Hurts the Economy.” Opposing Viewpoints: Immigration. Eds. David M. Haugen, Susan Musser and Kacy Lovelace. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2009. 30-35. Print.
... to exist in our days, needs to be changed more if we ever want to achieve a true progression in our economy and society where not only the rich get the biggest piece of the pie. After researching a little and analyzing numbers and statistics from the past and present, fifty-one years have done two basic things to the harvesters of shame, their wages have improved a little bit and the ethnicity of the workers has changed from poor whites and blacks to poor Hispanics, bringing new factors into play such as the pros and cons that hiring immigrant workers bring to companies. Even though, these potential improvements appear to be substantial and beneficial shifting the views many workers and farmers had in the past, not all people receive the same treatments and benefits some companies share, thousands of immigrant workers have become the new mute slaves of America.
...as went from making $6.50 an hour to $19.00 an hour to overlook what he once was. I learned from doing this paper exactly how hard people outside of America had it because we have every opportunity to become something great without having to do much because he have to go to school and we have all kinds of government funding to go to college and no other country in the world has that. Americans also have the ability to make all kinds of money in there field of study and in Mexico if you are not born into the money you will not have it unless something major happens. Also in America we have unions to fight for what we as workers deserve and the benefits that we receive. Americans may not like each other sometime but we all agree that you should receive all the benefits and the money deserving of the job you do.
Even though the number of legal and illegal immigrants has risen strongly since the early 1990s, the size of the economic underclass has not. The inflow of low-skilled immigrants may even be playing a positive role in pushing native-born Americans up the skills and income ladder.” I think this argument, while better than the one in the other article, is missing some important stuff too. It does have some great data, stating that the influx of immigrants has not affected the size of the economic underclass, however, this evidence may be an illusory correlation, as it is not directly connected to the argument of poverty. Nobody is disputing that immigrants have entered our country, and most people will accept that the size of the economic underclass hasn’t grown, but these may be completely independent from one another. If the article had clearly shown that immigrants were not entering poverty or causing natives to, then the author’s line of reasoning would have been more effective because their well-selected data would apply directly to their
As the author cites, “By one estimate, removing the entire population of undocumented workers now in the U.S. would wipe out a chunk of the American economy roughly the size of the annual gross domestic product of Texas(Schoen, 2015).” Accordingly, the government will be affected in this situation due to a massive amount of undocumented workers that will be deported . Ancillary, the author states, “Removing all those workers, then, would have a huge effect on the industries(Kiersz, 2016).” Many Americans will have to replenish in the positions that the illegal immigrants will leave if they are deported, with this being said, deporting illegal immigrants that are undocumented workers, will not only affect them, but also Americans. The United States will be legitimately affected by the deportation of the migrants because of the jobs that will have to be permeated, the amount of money the marketing stores will lose while find adequate workers to take their positions, and the struggles Americans will have to try, to work the same way the immigrants did, whom had more experience in agricultural
...from researching and writing about the events I felt I was transported to this time and place and I can really feel for the people of this country. Even when we read history books we are able to just take in the event as a historical time. It is easy to just read out numbers of slaughtered and oppressed like statistics but looking closer we must see that in the thousands who suffered and died there were brothers and sisters, moms and dads and little children. This unnecessary suffering was for greed and lust for power. This is a sad story that keeps repeating itself time and time again.