Event #2

For my second event I went to watch President Obama make his speech on the economy here at RIC on Friday, October 31st. During this event he touched upon the topic of the economy as well as focusing on women's equality, raising minimum wage, and continuing to have more people back to work. He spoke about women’s inequality in the work place as not being fair and should be abolished. President Obama talked about his personal experience of his single mother having to work so many jobs because she was getting paid unequally only because of her gender. He also spoke of the minimum wage being increased to $10 an hour because the reality is that people cannot live off of $8.00 an hour and this is why poverty is so high. This in turn will get people back to work not having to work crazy hours to make ends meet, but to finally live comfortably.

This connects to Ullucci because he highlights the following in his article, stereotyping poverty youth, teachers not having the proper background to interact with poverty youth, and the culture of poverty myth. When President Obama talked about the economy in terms of women’s equality, raising minimum wage, and continuing to have more people back to work it all connects back to youth. Mainly for their future of not having the unnecessary stereotyping of gender determining how much money you make, if you get a raise, or promotion at the work place. As well as finally having the minimum wage back to a rate that a person could actually live off of if necessary. This in turn can open up doors for our youth in the future.

Some references online that talks about this are http://keepthemiddleclassalive.com/the-importance-of-a-federal-minimum-wage/ sustainabledevelopment.un.org   http://www.unfpa.org/gender/empowerment1.htm