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Albert Tseng
Minimum wage What is the minimum wage in your country? In my country, it is 115 NTD(3.7 USD) at the moment. It is so much better now than it used to be. I’m a college student who majors in Italian. Today, I saw a post on FACEBOOK posted by the chief of my department at school. He said that he got us the opportunity to work for an art company for three months under the name of internship. When I looked at the job description, I was really drawn by it until I saw that they would only pay 90 NTD(2.9 USD) per hour. They want students who can speak English, Italian and of course Chinese to work at the Da Vinci Art Exhibition, I’m sure there will be some running-around, interpretation, guiding or even public speaking skills required, but they will only be willing to pay a little money. I feel rather disappointed because the situation in my country or dare I say, in most of the countries is like this, people with money go out of their ways to take advantages of people who need money. I know students, not all of them, but some students don’t really have so much job experience, but I still think we don’t deserve to be treated any less.

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Minimum wage

What is the minimum wage in your country? In my country, it is 115 NTD(3.7 USD) at the moment. It is so much better now than it used to be.
I’m a college student who majors in Italian. Today, I saw a post on FACEBOOK posted by the chief of my department at school. He said that he got us the opportunity to work for an art company for three months under the name of internship [1]. When I looked at the job description, I was really drawn by it until I saw that they would only pay 90 NTD(2.9 USD) per hour. They want students who can speak English, Italian and of course Chinese to work at the Da Vinci Art Exhibition. I’m sure there will be some running-around, interpretation, guiding or even public speaking skills required, but they will only be willing to pay a little money [2]. I feel rather disappointed because the situation in my country, or dare I say, in most of the countries is like this; people with money go out of their ways to take advantages of people who need money. I know students, not all of them, but some students don’t really have so very much job experience, but I still think we don’t deserve to be treated any less.

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Judging from this paragraph, you are one step short of true fluency. I understand you perfectly, but from the way you compose your sentences, it is clear that English is a second language for you. The following are suggestions to make your English more fluent; different English speakers may have different suggestions, this is just my interpretation.

[1] While grammatically correct, this sentence would sound much better if it was restructured. The phrase "under the name of internship" is particularly clunky. I would say it like this: "He said he got us an internship with an art company which would last three months." You can assume we know that an internship is a kind of work opportunity, and not have to explain it.

[2] Perhaps: "I'm sure the position will require a lot of running around and using public speaking and interpretation skills to guide guests through the exhibition, yet they are unwilling to pay more than a little money." The less commas you use in a sentence, the better. Also a good word you can use in place of "a little money" in this context is "a pittance." So: "yet they are unwilling to pay more than a pittance." It is not a common English word, but it works perfectly there.

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Yes, college is very expensive here. The average US student graduates with around $30,000 in debt. 40 million Americans have student loan debt out of a population of 240 million adults, so it's a huge problem. I personally think that higher education should be free and open to every citizen, like how it is in Germany.
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I also heard that people have to pay a huge amount of money to go to school in America, so lots of people are already in debt when they graduate. here in taiwan is also like this, some students have to get a loan to be able to afford higher education., and this is why it is very frustrating when i see that they'll only pay a pittance for interns. it makes me wonder, do we only worth 90(2.9 USD) after 3 or 4 years of studying?
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And I agree, it's terrible they way big companies exploit the labor of young people, paying them less than the minimum wage because they are young and lack experience. Everyone, in my opinion, should be paid a wage that they can live on. In the United States, things are too expensive for anyone to be able to live on $7.25/hour.
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In the United States, the federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour. However, some states within the US have higher minimum wages (Georgia, where I live, does not, unfortunately).

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