Breanna 5B
1. What is the editorial's central claim?
Maine is not attracting big companies, which will give Mainers' jobs like we used to. Companies want places where they can give work to cheap laborers and the sell their products to. Maine is not competing with other states by lowering their wages which makes companies want to come. The articles also says that Maine does not have a "large enough skilled workforce for the economic giants that make them look into our direction". Companies are not getting what they want out of Maine so they aren't coming.
2. What is a significant piece of evidence used to support the argument?
Some evidence that is use is that "We don't have an academic-industrial complex like Massachusetts or California, which are magnets for high-tech firms." We aren't standing out for these businesses. It also doesn't help because "we certainly won't lower our wages to compete with Alabama, Mexico or China or match their abysmal environmental or safety standards." We have certain standards that we are not changing that other places are that make companies want to go there.
3. What is your opinion of the claim? Add your voice.
We should not try to compete with bigger states than Maine to get the chain businesses to come. We should use what we have such as lobsters and other seafood, to create a business around our standards to create jobs for Maine. Instead of have Maine work for chain businesses such as Wal-Mart, Dunkin Donuts, etc, where they don’t treat the workers like we want them, we should stay as we are and use what we have.
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