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A great set, today! From here to the bottom!!
ReplyDeleteAGREE!
DeleteMost "low wage" retail jobs are designed for part-time workers, people who are limited to 40 hour work weeks. When those workers are in those jobs, they are young enough to "have options" and in places they can build their paychecks with time and performance improvements.
ReplyDeleteThis worked well in the 1980s for high school and college kids. THEN, when jobs started easing from the USA to China, factories closed and those who had been making $35.00+/hour, with mortgages and such, suddenly had to look for work. Any work. So they ended up competing with the high school kids for jobs at "low pay", just to pay their bills.
Also, single mothers with young kids also fell into this situation, too. Which put a different face into the mix. One that had needs for more money when there was little available. Two jobs just to eat and pay for daycare, much less rent and health insurance!
In the earlier 1970s, in DFW, a recent construction 1 bedroom apartment was about $200.00, some with utilities paid. Such was do-able for a college kid in school, with a part-time job. Nothing fancy, but decent. Aside from the rent amount, how many of THOSE type of apartments are around in the current times? Even "efficiency" apartments?
LOTS of nuances and side issues in our modern society! But some "common threads", too. What SOME consider "over-reach" by legislators is just the legislators making sure that "everybody plays nice" for the good of all. WE are better when everybody does well!
Perhaps some federally-legislated "profit sharing" in all wage agreements? The USA did well when unions were in more prevalence, it seemed. There IS a reason why unions exist to advocate for workers' rights.
Billionaires should be made to live a year just like a low income employee.
ReplyDeleteThe stress would kill them.
And sick how the bootstrap crowd of the middle class look down on low wage working people. Low pay work that one day many of them may have to take to barely survive.
-Rj