Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Offers opposing viewpoints on issues involving the minimum wage, covering such topics as whether raising it raises incomes, its effect on local economies, and its connection to unemployment.

"What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona, and worked the graveyard shift at a chicken slaughterhouse in rural Alabama. He dodged taxis - not always successfully - as a bicycle delivery "boy" for an upscale Manhattan restaurant, and...