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Article Summary’s Article # 1- Is a story coming from the perspective of Paty Leyva who works in a sweatshop in Mexico. Paty say’s “ with maquiladora wages, we can’t afford milk, meat, chicken, fruit, or new clothes, and building a house with more than two rooms is luxury” she added. There are close to 1 million maquiladora workers in Mexico. A big percent of the workers are girls and young women from the ages of 14- 20 years old. They work 10- hour shifts six days a week and very few breaks. They work in harsh conditions and industrial accidents and toxic exposures are by no means uncommon. On average workers make between $0.80 to $1.25 an hour and are unaware of their right under Mexico’s labor code. I think that reading about this is sad because sometimes as just teenagers without having to support anybody and have to buy food we sometimes think that minimum wage ($5.50) is not enough per hour. Then you read these stories about adults who make at the most $1.25 per hour and do harder work then anyone in this world and have families to support. I just wish I could help them. Article # 2- This article is about how 7 workers filed a lawsuit on Bebe because of the conditions that the people in their facto