Low Wage Life hypertext proposal

My website will look at the narrative of high school students working in fast food. Through this narrative I will look at prioritizing spending, the circular effects of education on wage, and the effect of misunderstanding and mystery in connection with jobs. All of these factors result in a continuing cycle of low wage life, starting from a very early age. These are also things that I have been lucky enough to be educated about, and I personally believe, are at the heart of the transition out of the low wage life (not that I have made that transition.)
Prioritizing spending is a huge part of the chapters we read in The Working Poor. Many are confronted with the following question‘“…we couldn’t afford both the cable bill and the phone bill,’”(Shipler 28), though the conclusion for them was to cut the phone off. “They don’t have milk, but the y do have cable” (Shipler 28). “Willie” and “Sarah” even “used part of their check from the IRS to get tattoos” one year. It’s this kind of spending that we see prevent people from making any headway against monetary roadblocks.
Fast Food Nation looks at teenagers working in fast food specifically, and the effects it has on the rest of their lives. “They stay at their jobs late into the night, neglect their homework, and come to school exhausted”(Schlosser 79). Of Harrison high schools entire class “About half of them eventually graduate” (Schlosser 80).
It is very difficult to get out of a system you don’t understand. One of the most powerful tools that employers have and use is the complexity of employment. The idea that you work and you get paid is almost prehistoric. “Caroline” from The Working Poor runs into this time and time again. We also see this even with the unions “The presidents of two unions on Washington DC...had never heard