Wages
The minimum wage in New Mexico is seven dollars and fifty cent. The minimum wage of California was nine dollars but since the start of 2016 it has increased to ten dollars. California has the highest minimum wage in the United States of America. The most common job in New Mexico is the occupation of wellhead pumper. Wellhead pumpers are people who operate power pumps to produce a flow of oil or gas from wells. The second most common job in New Mexico is the occupation of a roustabout. A roustabout is the person who maintains all things in an oil field. The most common occupation in California is shoe machine operating. The second most common job is entertainment.
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Inflation
The average inflation rate for California is 2.3 percent which is higher than the national rate of 2.1 percent.
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"State of California Economic Forecast." State of California Economic Forecast. Web. 9 Jan. 2016.
The average rate of inflation fluctuates under 3 percent. New Mexico does does not expect to go over 3 percent this year but it is a strong possibility that it will go over 3 percent next year.
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Unemployment
The unemployment rate in California is 8.5 percent. There are more than 1,500,000 people in California unemployed. California has had an average unemployment rate of 7.5 percent for each year since 1976. Since that year, it has reached 10.0 percent or more on two occasions. Unemployment rates in California reached historic lows in 2000 and 2006. In 2013, unemployment fell below 10.0 percent to 8.9 percent. The unemployment rate of New Mexico is 6.2 percent as of 2015. The number of people unemployed in New Mexico peaked in June 2010 at 77,716. There are now 15,728 fewer people unemployed in the state. From a recent trough of 54,455 in January 2015, the number of unemployed has now grown by 7,533
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Sweat Shops
California has many sweatshops but the popular ones produce garments and fabric. Workers in the California garment industry are enduring poor working conditions and insufficient pay, the US Department of Labour found out in 2014. More than 1,500 Southern California garment workers are owed over $3 million in unpaid wages, the government department found following a year-long survey which also concluded that American companies Nasty Gal, Macy's, Nordstrom and JC Penney, among others, were included in these garment producing sweatshops. Although minimum wage in the state of California was $9 per hour, the report found that some sewing workers were earning nine cents per piece of clothing stitched. In the past five years, the Department of Labour investigators found violations that led to more than $15 million in recovered wages for nearly 12,000 workers. There are many sweat shops in New Mexico they are known as maquilas. Pay and working conditions can be terrible. Each shift is from 8.30 am until 8.30 pm , but if workers do not complete the number of clothes they have been told to make that day, they must work longer without any pay. On Saturdays, people must work from 8 am until 5 pm without a lunch break. Workers are paid between $30 and $50 per week. The government has done little to nothing to help the people in sweatshops in New Mexico. The work can also be dangerous because the people have no protective goggles to wear when they are sewing at their machines, so sometimes the needles break and fly up into their faces.
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Fair Trade
Is an organization the sells and provides food to people and fairly compensate the workers and farmers that make the food. They are a non profit organization that doesn't do charity instead they teach poor communities how to use the free market to their advantage. Over one hundred stores in California practice fair trade. Seven stores in New Mexico participate in fair trade.
Current Event
This video is about 4 new workers in New Mexico exposed to dangerous amounts of radiation. This new case adds on to the 21 other people that were contaminated. This video also describes what the company plans on doing to fix the problem and prevent it from happening again. Catholic Social Teaching explains that we should help these workers fight for better conditions so that way no one loses their life and no one else's health is at risk. We should make the people clear the radiation before they send more workers down there or we should make them move the job somewhere else without radiation.