In other words, the answer is that you have never changed anyone’s mind. Your tactics of smears and insults don’t work.
I think you should actually accomplish your tasks before blubbering about what a great job you’ve done.
Women’s rights and racial equality?
White females earn 73 cents for every dollar earned by a white male, according to a study released last month by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in Washington, D.C. By contrast, Asian women earn 68 cents, African-American women, 64 cents, Native American women, 58 cents, and Latina women earn 51 cents per dollar.
Children come to agriculture at varying ages. Reports of children as young as four or five working alongside their parents are not uncommon. Full time agricultural work, whether during school vacations and weekends or year-round, usually begins in early adolescence. The majority of workers interviewed for this report began working in the fields between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. A recent California study also reported thirteen to fifteen as the most common ages at which children begin agricultural work, and a Florida study found most young farmworkers began working by the age of fourteen.
Farm work is low-paid, exhausting, stigmatized, and often dangerous. Agricultural workers labor under extreme weather conditions, from pre-dawn cold to intense desert heat, where temperatures are commonly well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Their work is physically demanding, requiring sustained strength, endurance, and coordination.
Twelve-hour days are routine, as are six and seven-day work weeks. During peak harvesting seasons, children may work fourteen, sixteen, or even eighteen hours a day, seven days a week. Whether paid by the hour or on the basis of piece-rates, they are not paid overtime wages-the law does not require it.
At least 114 of the [Superfund] sites could pose immediate health hazards for people living nearby, according to the EPA. The agency has determined that the risk of human exposure to dangerous contaminants at those sites is not under control or that contaminated groundwater could be migrating off-site… The federal government tops the list, linked to 225 sites, according to EPA records. It also has been fined and penalized in connection with Superfund sites at least 18 times totaling more than $1.8 million, according to a database of fines maintained by the EPA.
Over 7% of persons living in the United States have been homeless (defined as sleeping in shelters, the street, abandoned buildings, cars, or bus and train stations) at some point in their lives. Homelessness rates have increased over each of the past 2 decades. An estimated 2.5 to 3.5 million people now experience homelessness each year. Approximately half are families with children, the fastest-growing segment of the homeless population. In 1 study, youth had a 1-year rate of homelessness of at least 1 night of 7.6%.
Among the 260 people we surveyed for this annual report card of community health indicators, nearly 80 percent have chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, arthritis and asthma. More than half have chronic psychiatric problems, mostly depression. Yet 54 percent have overdue medical bills, and the cost of care frequently prevents them from getting help. Forty percent of those who lacked health insurance said they stopped taking medications or going to the doctor as a result. With poor health and poor credit, they can do little to improve their lives.
