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Some reforms during the Progressive Era were low pay, long hours, no minimum wage, child labor, ad food safety. These things got exposed to the government through muckrakers. Muckrakers are journalist who get the inside o problems that many face, ad most dot know or realize. They brig these problems to the public to let everyone know about them ad be aware. This effected us in a good way because now we know how to improve from this era and what not to do because of these journalists. There was long workouts in dangerous working conditions ad polluted air. This lead to global warring which we know about today ad we also ave minimum wage ad working laws. You ca only work a certain amount of hours per day ad you have to be older than 16. This connects to life today because we see how what went on than, affects us or has changed today.

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Some reforms during the progressive era was the food safety. After the meat industry was exposed by muckrakers, they put inspectors in meat packaging places. Another reform was working conditions, the workers hours we shortened and raised wages. They now made minimum wage. This connects to life today because the Meat Inspection Act is still put in place today. Another way this connects to life today is because we still have a minimum wage and our working conditions are much better than they were during the progressive era.

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There were many reforms during the Progressive Era, especially when it came to working conditions. During industrialization, many children and women were working with little to no pay and financial gain was always put before their safety. In the meatpacking industry, diseases ran rampant and there were practically no health safety measures taken, which affected both workers and the food produced. A book written by muckraker Upton Sinclair called “The Jungle” brought attention to some of the issues in the meatpacking industry. Soon after, the meat inspection act of 1906 was passed, there were laws to prevent packers from using fillers and impurities, and there was to be an inspector in every meat plant in the country. In regards to other work conditions, child labor is now banned (at least in the US) and a work is eight hours long with minimum wage.

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Some reforms made during the Progressive Era included the muckrakers, cleaning up society's "muck". They wanted to expose many corrupted things wrong with society.

One of the main problems was working conditions.This included child labor,  and dangerous working conditions at the meat processing factories, mills, and mines.
Awareness of this was passed around, eventually until the Meat inspection act was made and the end of child labor came. 
 
Today, it is quite different from back then. While in other places in the world still have child labor, America does not. Working conditions have also improved. 

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Some reforms made during the Progressive Era such as the changes made in the workplace industry. Especially the meatpacking industry. So a book named The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was able to spread awareness for the harmful workplace conditions and the food that was packed and sold to the public. Then through investigation, the FDA and Meat Inspection Act were put in place to protect against these things. This connects to today because both the FDA and Meat Inspection Act are still in place to this day.

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Some reforms that where  made during the progressive era where very lower work hours and high pay. This caused changes today witch is minimum wage. in us people that start a new job have minimum wage. now in the usa people work safer then they did back then.

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some reforms that were made were lowered work hours and higher pay. those are still used today because we still have a minimum amount of hours that you have to work and during that you get paid a certain amount but if you were to work overtime you could get paid more since you work over your hours.

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Some reforms made during the Progressive Era such as lowering work hours, starting acts and improving work and living conditions. These caused changes that we still use today like minimum wage,  and working conditions. Here in the U.S. the working conditions changed a lot to be safer for people so they don't get sick or diseased, and people didn't get hurt as much as back then.

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A reform made during the Progressive Era was the changes in the workplace industry, most importantly in the meat-packing industry. The Jungle, a book by Upton Sinclair spread awareness and brought light to the harmful workplace conditions. Workers were treated poorly, disease was spread through food, and one of the worst things is that bad meat was dosed with chemicals and then sold again. Sinclairs book however was a start to making laws and bettering the workplace. This connects to modern day times because even though we might have laws in America, that doesn't mean that other countries aren't still treating their workers bad as well as spreading disease through food.

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Some reforms made during the Progressive Era include the working and living condition of people living in industrialized cities. One of the biggest reforms of the Progressive Era was the use of unions and muckrakers. Muckrakers shed light on the reality of the unfair working conditions of people working in the food industry or in general factories. With their investigative reporting it brought with them the creation of the FDA and USDA due to the lack of sanitation in this era. Unions played a major role in changing the working conditions of people in factories in this time. Collective groups of workers would protest working until wages were raised, hours were shorter, and conditions were better. Their most effective ways of being heard was going on strike and picketing.These reforms connect to our lives today because now we have a minimum wage, and average work day, mandatory breaks, the FDA and USDA to make sure the food we eat is good for us.

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There were lost of reforms made during the progressive era like The making of minimum wage, Lowering work hours, Starting the Meat inspection Act and many others. The making of minimum wage and lowering work hours as a huge roll in today. If they did not work to lower the work hours or did not make minimum wage people in today's time would not be making enough money to live a long healthy live, and they would be working way over time. The Meat Inspection Act also plays a big role, if the people did not make it today our meat would be terrible unhealthy, unclean, etc. It would cause way more people to get sick and maybe even die. Not to mention the working conditions in the meat producing factories were terrible and unclean. There were people in this time called Muckrakers who wrote about the problems going on and how they wanted to slove them and bring awareness. They normally wrote about the poor people who could not afford essential things.

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Some reforms made during the Progressive era include lowered work hours, higher pay (and minimum wage), and also child labor laws. These are still used today and have adapted to become the laws we still have. For example, it is standard to have a 40 hour work week - and if you work more to have overtime pay. Children are not allowed to work until a certain age (depends on the state) and are always given minimum wage for the hours they work.

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Some reforms made during the progressive era include; The making of minnimum wage, flexable work hours, Safer working conditions, and different living conditions. These reforms connect to our lives today because of the progress made during the progresive era we don't have to work 12-16 hour work shifts 6 days a week. Minnimum wage exsists so people are making money for their hard work. The working conditions are better people (in america) are not working with as much toxins (exsample: Acid). Child labor does not exsist in the workplace, you have to be a certain age to be able to work a job (depending on the job).

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A big reform made during the Progressive Era was the creation of Unions. A Union is an organized group of workers who unite to make decisions about conditions affecting work. Two examples of unions that started during the Progressive Era are the Knights of Labor who fought for an 8 hour work day and to get rid of child labor and the American Federation of Labor who fought for  higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions for its members. This reform connects to our lives today because we still have labor unions that protect the workerś rights. 

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There were may reforms made during the Progressive Era like the Meat Inspection Act and the start of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) caused by the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. The Jungle brought awareness to the food sanitation and the working conditions of workers in the meat industry. These reforms connect to our lives today because things like the FDA are still in place and they still monitor the food that we receive. And if it wasn't for the reforms our food and the working conditions would still be unsanitary and harsh.

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Some reforms made by work unions during the progressive era were such things as shortened hours, and raised wages. Along with a standard minimum wage. These still effect us today. We still have a minimum wage. Our work conditions are massively improved compared to the industrial era. There is now laws around almost everything these famous muckrakers were trying to change.

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some of the reformes that were in the progressive Era was the livving conditions which means that people were livving in not so nise homes and there was the laber movemt which meant that kids had to go to work 100 hours 6 days a week.

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"Progressive Era reformers sought to harness the power of the federal government to eliminate unethical and unfair business practices, reduce corruption, and counteract the negative social effects of industrialization." They had to work up to 100 hours and now people usually work 40

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Some reforms made during the Progressive Era include...
These reforms connect to our lives today because...

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