The Craft of Writing Editorials

1) The lead describes the details on working in a kitchen and the dangers that could come along with it. They then talk about about how the minimum wage frequently does not exceed the state minimum wage of $8 an hour.

2) The restaurant industry in the United States is exploding, just as the income gap is widening. 

3) She argues that the policies for anti-raising wages are very unimpressive and dismisses them by talking about how the number of employed citizens has increased since they stopped giving out below minimum wages. 

4) She talks about how the restaurants should raise the wages for the employees so they can take care of their children.

5) The 13 million-plus restaurant workers in the U.S. face a poverty rate that is nearly three times that of the rest of the country's workforce. It is seven on the 10 worst paying American jobs according to federal labor statistics. 

6) consumers must begin to pressure the industry or little will improve. The lawmakers should summon the courage to reject the demands of National Restaurant Association.

7) National Restaurant Association is largely responsible for Massachusetts "tipped minimum wage" under which restaurants are allowed to pay workers just $2.63 with the hard-to-enforce understanding that tips will make up the rest of the way to at least $8 per hour.

8) The restaurant owner blame these problems on slim profit margins amid these intense competition.

9) She says that raising wages would not change competition because every restaurant would have to abide.