NPR Economics

1. NPREconomics Franklin Ortiz&Jorge Martinez

2. Energy Drinks Can Take Teeth On An Irreversible Acid Trip • Energy drinks are beneficial in two way because it boosts your energy and also makes you feel more awake. • Energy drinks are not good for your teeth because the energy drink has citric acid that is bad for your teeth. • Dentist believed that 30 to 50 percent of the people who drink this • When teeth go bad people spend a lot of money to replace teeth or remove cavities that the energy drink creates. • Its an economic problem because people waste more money on fixing there teeth then buying an energy drink.

3. Just 115,000 Jobs Added Last Month, Jobless Rate Dipped To 8.1 Percent • In April 115,000 jobs to the U.S economy. • New jobs have been created so more people can have an opportunity to work. • When there are no jobs, there is more robbery. • Since some people don’t have jobs they tend to steel items and sell them in the street for some money to survive. • Most seem to hustle drugs in the streets and make “easy money”. • It’s a choice because they don’t want to leave their family starving.

4. Arrests Made In $75 Million Prescription Drug Heist • People buy drugs and don’t care how expensive it might be. • Two brothers stoled $75 million dollars of prescription drugs. • They stole these drugs off a warehouse. • Drugs are very harmful but drug dealers take advantage of it and make profit off it. • Making profit off of drugs is bad because people waste money over things that are harmful to there system.

5. Is Mexico's Drug War Worth The Cost? • Mexico’s drug war is not worth the cost at all. • The money we are spending on the war can be spent on education. • In one way its very harmful because we are in war with Narcs and they have heavy weapons. • We spent so much money on ammo and on serveillance. • People that are innocent are getting killed because they are in the middle of the war in the streets.

6. What american women do for work. • Years ago 1 out of 3 women would work. • As for today 1 out of 2 women get work. That’s basically half of the women working • It’s a good thing to have women working because it shows the economy has grown and shown that back in the day only men would work. • This shows economic principle of benefit cost analysis because it shows how more women are allowed to work increasing the economy.