Posted on 12/06/2019 2:05:55 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
In many cases people in poverty end up using their time and resources inefficiently, and suffering from not being able to team up with other people to succeed. At least she has been able to get some rides from people at the activist meetings, but having somebody who you can share a car with is more important than activism for a union.
If you keep a job working at McD (etc.) and then apply for another job, this job experience will tell your future employer that you will come to work on time, be clean and neat, and actually work.
This is why government “job training” is not trusted as much as having a McD job on your resume: in government paid for training they don't fire you. My son took a Job corps training and was disgusted at some there who smoked weed and never did anything. He worked hard and has worked ever since then.
Not true because THE WORK STILL HAS TO GET DONE. The work doesn’t go away.
Raising the MW has never caused inflation or higher unemployment. Google the stats yourself.
Fast food jobs used to be exclusively the domain of teenagers, and not supposed to be the career for retirement.
I worked fast food as a teen in the early 70’s with other teens and adult supervisors.
Now I see all adults, some even middle aged, or older, in the FF places........................
Life is hard when you are 29 and your skill set is that of a 16 year-old.
False - the majority of economic studies of minimum wage show it does raise unemployment. The MSM only ever talks about the small minority of studies that don't find that effect.
She votes. I am for increasing the min wage to $15. Get this ridiculous issue off the table and stop looking like jerks to the lower echelon voter.
She works for Mickey D’s part time.
...and she is not “OURS”...
...and I am not “YOURS”...
...and you are not “MINE”...
(are you sure you are a libertarian?)
Not true because THE WORK STILL HAS TO GET DONE. The work doesn’t go away.
Actually, some of it doesn't have to get done - and the portion that does will be forced on the smaller staff.
“ I say provide them with the health care as long as they can prove they worked those 40 hours. WE find a way to get her car fixed.”
Feel free to blow the dust off your own checkbook. Keep your mitts off mine.
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Army doc. I’m sure you are as sincere as I am. It all should be done locally. I often thought that all salaries can be taxed the same and at the end of the year. Congress can get together and decide what the lowest earners among us should get. Do it yearly and prove through paycheck stubs that 40 hours were worked. Fraud can be ‘discouraged’ by removing employers from any bonus pay for their workers.
BS articles for affluent Democrat Socialists who’ve never done such work a day in their lives with zero curiosity, logic or reasoning skill.
Thanks Obama!
This is what ObamaCare did to poor Americans. It required medical coverage to full timers?
No problem. Companies just keep your hours to part time.
If she's incapable of any other job, whose fault is that? Hers, her parents, her teachers and schools, and specifically the dems.
Move, find better employment, do whatever it takes to make your life better.
Not to worry. Now that her story is out there, plenty of bleeding hearts will be happy to help her via gofundme or something of the sort.
I wouldn't have a problem helping her get her car running again, and I applaud her for not taking in any and every possible entitlement she can qualify for. But, McDonald's and other fast food jobs were never seen as career jobs, but entry level jobs. She needs to set her sights higher and get off the dem plantation, IMO.
Do that for 2 years, bank some dough and get from behind the curve, and get on with life.
Even here in podunk Iowa, no one pays minimum wage. You would get no one at that price. Fast food places pay $10-12 an hour, and even more for midday shifts.
Who knows the truth after reading this article. Sounds like the subject wants to work, so that is awesome. But sometimes making more dough means making difficult moves to other locations.
“They’re running a lot of this propaganda lately. I guess to counter the great jobs report.”
Yeah.
My McDonalds across the street was advertising jobs at up to $20/hr recently. I thought semi-seriously about getting a weekend job there to pay off my house quicker.
“The min wage in 1968 was $12.00/hr adjusted for inflation.”
What were the prices of appliances adjusted for inflation?
I recall making $9.50/hr. It was the third-highest paying job I ever had. I wonder how social security retired people make it on $1,000/mo, a lot less than $9.50/hr. And I wonder how those social security people compete with ppl that insist on driving wages up to $15/hr for flipping burgers and pushing mops. Or how those who work in cubicles feel about burger flippers making more than they do shuffling papers. Or what those who are on their feet all day at twice her age think about a 29-yo complaining about a 4-hr stand?
Anyone who’s limited themselves to employment in the fast-food industry for 14 years has some problems - one of them seems to be tunnel-vision. Why she hasn’t applied for disability for her diabetes, which would give her medical coverage? Or why she hasn’t written the insulin manufacturer to get on their reduced/free drug program? Why hasn’t she moved on to restaurant work or hotel catering crew? (my first job - paid $100 an event) And I would think her employer is a rare one, if the employer doesn’t give consideration to bus schedules when asking a bus-riding employee to stay. She’s already said that she couldn’t afford a car payment or insurance, so fixing her vehicle is throwing money away. What’s her real story, because I”m not buying this one?
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