[Vigilanteman]

I'm sure my daughter is part of the uptick. She just got a second job to make up for her first job cutting her to 39 hours per week to avoid ObamaCare. This new job is 28 hours per week.

I wonder if she counts as 200% employment (2 jobs) or only 168% ([28+39]/40).

FWIW, neither job pays very well and, as a social work major, she is well aware of government programs which would enable an equal or better lifestyle than she gets working two jobs. But we didn't raise her that way.

[kearnyirish2]

“FWIW, neither job pays very well and, as a social work major, she is well aware of government programs which would enable an equal or better lifestyle than she gets working two jobs. But we didn’t raise her that way.”

She is making the right call in terms of having discretionary funds and options the perpetually dependent don’t enjoy (the major option being she won’t have to live around the perpetually dependent, with all that entails). A much larger problem is the demographic consequence of this; the electorate is changing very quickly as the white birthrate (at least in my area, which still has plenty of white people) has dropped to 0. Future elections will reflect this (if the past two didn’t); this isn’t a black/white issue, but a white/”other” issue, and the consequences are permanent.