Here's one way to stop living paycheck to paycheck

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This article highlights ways to help save money from check to check, while still being able to spend money on necessities. It gives a glimpse into a book that is written about budgeting and touches briefly on not spending money on unnecessary things and saving towards important things.

This article highlights incomes being affected by the government shutdown.

In this article, mainly federal workers are who are being affected.

Girl, 10, critically injured in ATV crash

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This article is stating how a 10 year old girl was injured in a ATV "All Terrain Vehicle" accident. It gives the essence of the accident and what happened.

This article highlights the problem that a child as young as 10 was allowed to operate a motor vehicle with a high chance of tipping points.

The youth are affected because of injury, pedestrians are affected because they have to worry about underage children operating motor vehicles.

The plastic ban: Gainesville will be 100 percent waste free by 2040

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This story outlines how Gainesville plans to rid its plastic waste completely by 2040. This highlights Gainesville progressive take to become a great example for cities around.

This article articulates the problem with having a unreasonable amount of waste that cant be broken down by nature for 100's of years. It needs to be dealt with.

This particular problem affects Gainesville residents directly, as well as every and any human on earth if we dont radicate this problem.

Sheriff: Need for 911 operators continues

This article is about a 911 Operator who was on the force for 22 years. This article highlights the needs for nore applicants for the job position.

The problem here is that people, as time goes on, do not want to be a 911 Operator. They would rather work in a prison or a detention center.

The people directly affected by this are police officers and firefighters. They need to make sure they have an adequate amount of operators so they are able to be assisted properly in emergency situations.

Recall is expanded for heart, blood-pressure and kidney drug over possible carcinogen

This article is about the unfortunate recall for a heart, blood pressure, and kidney prescription.

The probem here is that so many people have already taken this prescription and it could have had deadly side effects. These things should not have been able to make it out of quality control.

The people affected by this problem are whoever needed this medicine to live a better life.

2 comments:

Sam CJanuary 27, 2019 at 8:08 PM
I enjoyed how you used a Gainesville source as I can relate to some of these opportunities. My favorite one was the plastic ban because that is very inspiring that Gainesville will be 100% waste free by 2040. Good job.
Chris PresseyJanuary 28, 2019 at 9:45 PM
The Gainesville article is pretty interesting and it is very ambitious. Everywhere uses plastic and it seems like it would be very hard to completely remove plastic, but 2040 is also a long ways away so it it possible.

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