https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies By Zhanqi Wang, Calvin Liu, Sammy Lee, ZhaoYin Guan en-us 2018-02-27 16:35:24 UTC 2018-03-07 17:09:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rocket.png 8zwan332 https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/236497257  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5UT04p5f7U ]]> 2018-02-28 16:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/236497257 8zwan332 https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/236498006 https://www.moneycrashers.com/get-rid-penny-reasons/]]> 2018-02-28 16:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/236498006 8zwan332 https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/236501143 https://blog.generationopportunity.org/articles/2016/02/21/pennies-are-useless-heres-why-the-government-keeps-making-them/]]> 2018-02-28 16:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/236501143 8zwan332 https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/236501800      Lastly, the pennies cost more to mint than the actual worth of the coin itself. According to the 2014 annual report from the US Mint, "It now costs about $0.017 - 1.7 cents - to make one cent." This quotation suggests that the government are loosing money. In fact, they already lost $55 million that year for minting 7.9 billion coins. These coins consists of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, but the offenders of the loss of $55 million is the pennies and the nickels, which many anti-penny groups calls for the removal of both. Spending 1.7 cents to make 1 cent might sound like a bad idea on paper, they're reusable as long as they're in circulation. However, most pennies aren't in circulation because they're sitting in jars or just left on the sidewalk. Canada retired their penny and we should d the same.]]> 2018-02-28 16:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/236501800 8cliu1351 https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/237000637     Secondly, they're bad for the environment  which humans live in. Some background information is that pennies are 97% zinc, and 2.5% copper in the surface. Based on article, "Should We Get Rid of the Penny? – 8 Reasons to Keep It vs Eliminate It," on paragraph 15 to 18, pennies contain toxic metals like lead and cadmium, not including the fact that zinc itself is harmful to humans and animals. If someone drops a huge amount of pennies in the water system, then it would contaminate users in the surrounding areas. A student at the University Of California calculated that transportation itself from creation of pennies to the bank will release about 1.5 million metric tons of CO2 or carbon dioxide, each year in the atmosphere. That's just crazy for the environment and miners shouldn't work so hard to produce pennies anymore.]]> 2018-03-01 16:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/237000637 8zgua4691 https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/237001068      First of all, pennies is useless.
It shows that the in source 1 at paragraph 1 that evidence shows that it's heavy it your wallet and it takes up space also to not worth any money. This evidence supports that they are mostly useless. Another evidence is that paragraph 10 it shows that there is some organization that are protection the pennies. According to the article named "generationopportunity" and it tells that one of the protector are called "Americans For Common Cents" who has been defending the pennies since 1990 and the "America For Common Cents" is backed by the zinc industry. Mark Weller its the executive director and is the head communications for law firm that represents the interest of "Jarden zinc" a company that provides raw materials into the pennies]]> 2018-03-01 16:17:15 UTC https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/237001068 8slee144 https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/237001394    Although some may argue that the penny honors Abraham Lincoln and eliminating it would be disrespectful. However, have they considered that pennies aren't the only US currency with Lincoln on it? Lincoln would remain on the five dollar bill. While pennies are useless and a waste of time, the $5 bill is actually used and are cheaper to make than how much it is worth.]]> 2018-03-01 16:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/237001394 8zwan332 https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/237475457    Pennies are special for the older generation. They had a piggy bank to put in their hard earned coins. That was a time where a penny can actually buy you something. Nowadays, you won't spend pennies because it takes too much of them to buy you something. However, many people are proposing that we should get rid of pennies.  One of the arguments against this is that Lincoln's head is on the coin. Even if it does have Lincoln' head on it, we should get rid of the pennies because they are useless, they're bad for the environment, and they cost more than they actually worth]]> 2018-03-02 16:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/237475457 8zgua4691 https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/237477386      In conclusion, pennies are useless , harmful ,and wasteful. After reviewing all the sources, I strongly believe that pennies are bad. It's bad because it uses way more materials to create it's vaules and it doesn't worth a lot. My research had proofed to me that pennies are useless of many reason]]> 2018-03-02 16:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/8zgua4691/pennies/wish/237477386