Student Number |
No |
10% |
25% |
40% |
1 |
X |
|
|
|
2 |
|
X |
|
|
3 |
X |
|
|
|
4 |
X |
|
|
|
5 |
X |
|
|
|
6 |
|
X |
|
|
7 |
|
|
X |
|
8 |
|
X |
|
|
9 |
|
X |
|
|
10 |
X |
|
|
|
11 |
|
X |
|
|
12 |
|
|
X |
|
13 |
|
|
X |
|
14 |
|
|
X |
|
15 |
|
X |
|
|
16 |
X |
|
|
|
17 |
|
X |
|
|
18 |
|
X |
|
|
19 |
|
|
X |
|
20 |
X |
|
|
|
21 |
|
X |
|
|
22 |
|
X |
|
|
23 |
|
|
X |
|
24 |
|
|
X |
|
25 |
X |
|
|
|
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For my original research contribution, I conducted a survey of twenty-five Santa Clara students about whether or not they would be willing to pay extra for their produce if it ensured that the workers who harvested said produce would be paid and treated fairly. Because there is disagreement about how much raising the pay of harvesters would effect the cost of produce, I gave each person the option to choose from a ten, twenty-five, or forty percent increase to what they already pay for produce. The results were not very favorable towards the workers. No student was willing to pay forty percent more for their produce while only seven were willing to pay twenty-five percent more. The remaining eighteen students were only willing to pay ten percent more or nothing at all.
It’s clear that if a migrant worker wants to get his or her family out of poverty in order to achieve the American Dream, they either need help or luck, or some combination of the two. Based on my findings, the common middle to upper class student is not willing to do it. If not them who? College students today are the generation that can make a difference in this issue and many others, but it seems like the prerogative of the individual is to better one’s self, which reflects on the group as a whole.
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