My news friday

Jesus Diaz


Income and satisfaction
Motoko Rich

As of last year the ideal pay for a worker was 75,000 in order for the average American to live happy but according to the Macarthur foundation and David Card this as like a lot of things in America has changed. According to Card and the Macarthur foundation it now all depends on who you work with and how much they make. In a recent study conducted by Card which interviewed staff from the University of California and listed their salaries and when the same chart was brought to another random campus it was shown that staff members were suddenly disgruntle about their paid salaries despite that they were just happy with their own salary. This just shows that employees do not like being under paid compared to their colleagues.
The title is appropriate and tells what the article is about in a quick comparison of the both. The lead is a “What” lead and gets a good lead because it gets straight to the main topic so the reader will automatically get a gist what the story is about directly. This story has many sources for example the people who conducted that conducted the study which were David Card, Alexandre Mas, Enrico Moretti and Emmanuel Saez but though this story has many sources I still think they should’ve added a actual staff as a source which would’ve made the source stronger. I think this story is missing a catch because despite the story is good I feel it’s to short and could’ve been elaborated on it more because I feel they just stated the fact instead of grabbing the reader’s attention with a lengthy story.