Hollah Back At Me Brotha

The title is just because this relates to my OpEd essay so I'm loving this author already. The PG article I picked is called "Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are." This article is about international labor and the restrictions that our country puts on it. Kristof, the author of the article, argues that we shouldn't be pressing so hard to keep children out of work and then stop there. By doing that, we honestly make matters worse in any country where they allow child labor. But, we force these kids not to work so they have no job and nothing else to do. This article suggests the reform that we encourage as many years as we can of school to kids who are raised up in these areas and reward them with food. They will go to school if they get food because of it. But we can only encourage the kids to go to school as long as they can. Some schooling only offers 4 years and then the student is done after that. So, there are 12 year olds that are done with school that can't work because of the laws we create that make us feel good about ourselves. When truth is, we just don't know enough and we're causing more poverty. This article at the end encourages us to do the right thing and sponsor meals for kids who go to school. That way, we're actually putting our money where their mouths are. Very clever title if you ask me. I think the author does an extraordinary job at making his argument by addressing the bad things about his argument but why they are actually better than the system going on now. He connects to me very well so I feel like he could connect to most readers just fine. I'm already a fan of this article and I can tell that I will enjoy writing about its effectiveness for our next rhetorical analysis essay.