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America Needs The PENNY Now More Now then ever. - Coggle Diagram
America Needs The PENNY Now More Now then ever.
1 at this point civility in America is on the ropes.
finding disagreements.
People are scared
2 the penny, the one-cent coin everyone has too many of or doesn't know what to do with or finds too filthy to actually hold in their hands.
it might seem like a silly time to think about the penny,
the penny matters now, more than ever.
3 With so many of America’s key institutions and cultural pillars in decay—or worse—now is not the time to make war on America's coinage.
16th president of the United States of America and recall what true patriotism meant.
4 With the trend toward cashless businesses and Apple Pay and other currency-free acts of commerce, it's fair to wonder if the next generation of youth would even be aware of the beautiful brown sight that is a freshly-minted American penny.
When your grandparents were kids, they could buy a handful of candy, a couple of pieces of gum, or a bottle of Coke for just a few pennies.
However, times have changed, and money has changed along with them.
8 With so much anxiety in the financial markets and fear among people about the future, why would we get rid of something that works?
Let’s keep the penny
think of it as an investment in our national character.
6 It might seem like the penny can’t change the world, but in New York, school children collected 100 million pennies for charity.
The penny collection was so splendid
If your math is a little rusty, that equals a million dollars.
5 There are all sorts of delightful activities that simply cannot happen without a healthy supply of circulated pennies.
Spending hours rolling them into small paper cylinders.
Flattening them as a souvenir in those big tourist-attraction machines
7 I'm not alone. Polling has consistently shown over the years that most Americans want pennies to stick around.
according to a poll released by Americans for Common Cents
More than two-thirds of Americans (68%) want to keep the penny