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Word of the Day: Sweatshop
We mustn’t take any wooden nickels during the holiday season.
We must also consider where the gifts we buy are made.
For example, sometimes we think we are buying an authentic product, but then again, it may be counterfeit goods made in sweatshops.
These places are often small factories (but they can be big) where people work very hard for very little pay.
They also often manufacture counterfeit goods.
Counterfeit products are illegal, and in most cases, they cannot be manufactured in legal factories; therefore, they are produced in sweatshops.
If you’re going overseas during the holiday season, be careful not to buy fake goods.
If you are caught bringing them back into your own country, customs and immigration officers may confiscate them.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 9th-grade education (age 15).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 58.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.