You think a fast food place or any retail place could survive in a city with high rent using your math?
Liberals in la-la land: High wages, 32-hour workweeks sound great, but there's a steep price
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That is a very tiny percent of the workforce (.15%), However 52 million workers making less than $15/hr is shocking. That is 1/3 of the workforce!Yes. More than 240,000 workers in the US make the federal minimum wage.
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Since last raised 14 years ago, the federal minimum wage has lost 37.4% of its purchasing power.www.zippia.com
Why is it that 1/3 of our workforce is so unskilled? How does this country, the Land of Opportunity, produce so many unskilled workers??
I generally regard myself as a left-leaning moderate. But government is not supposed to have to prop-up a third of the workers in this country.
Because about half of Americans can’t read at a 6th grade level?
Not everyone can afford to shop or set up shop on Rodeo Drive... do you think there is a golden arches next to Tiffany's?
Bingo. Public education. Spend money on education, the "right way" (whatever that is) and we solve a lot of our country's social problems.
Yes they should. Plus the US Poverty Line higher than about 50% of the world's population. American's are so spoiled and delusional.
There you have it folks: this guy and of course KF think Americans with limited intellectual and interpersonal skills through no fault of their own deserve a lifetime of poverty even though they work full time.
Your parents really failed you somewhere along the way.
I absolutely didn't say that, but I see your public school reading level may not be up to the 6th grade level others said.
I’m sorry. I was totally confused by you liking his post where he said exactly that.
Let’s make easy and stop dancing around it. Do you agree with this sentence:
Americans with limited intellectual and interpersonal skills through no fault of their own deserve a lifetime of poverty even though they work full time.
