6 Q’s About the News | $15 Wage in Fast Food Stirs Debate on Effects

Protesters in fast-food strikes, like those at a Taco Bell in Michigan in July, have called for a minimum wage of $15 an hour.  Go to related article » Credit Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times
6 Q’s About the News

Read the article and answer the news questions below.

In “$15 Wage in Fast Food Stirs Debate on Effects,” Steven Greenhouse reports on the competing opinions of how a large wage increase would affect the fast-food industry.

WHAT wage increase are organizers of the fast-food workers asking for?

HOW much do fast-food workers currently make on average?

WHY do restaurant industry officials say they oppose the increase?

WHAT does Arindrajit Dube, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, think might happen if the $15-an-hour increase is adopted?

WHAT does Ken Jacobs, chairman of the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Labor Research and Education, think might happen?

WHAT does Stephen J. Caldeira, president of the International Franchise Association, think might happen?

HOW have several fast-food chains been cutting labor costs?

WHEN was a one-day strike planned for fast-food restaurant workers?

WHERE did organizers plan for the strike to take place?

For Higher-Order Thinking

WHAT do you think might happen if fast-food restaurants raise wages to $15 an hour? WHO do agree with most of the experts quoted in the article?

Do you support the $15-an-hour wage increase? WHY?

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They’re asking for an 15 dollar intake on hourly wage. Fast food workers make anywhere rom minimum wage to 9 dollars a hour. Because the Reasturant inudtry are chained resturant an they have diffrent policies that exempt them from bringn up diffrent wages.Theyre haveing the strike at the naiontal mc. donalds corparation .