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America's Wage Problem
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This is the economic reason that unrepentant serial adulterer Donald J. Trump was elected. Wages had not gone up much, or maybe not even at all, during the Obama presidency. P&R's Palladin | |
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Not sure what classifies as low skill but most people i encounter have more than one job, either they're working towards their own business or they need the extra income. It's funny the amount you have for home health care, where I live it starts at $15 usually it falls at $17/ph and honestly that isn't a living wage here, you'd need another income to do more than survive. Probably explains why the homeless population has exploded here. I'm sure many of those are employed to some extent. Year of Return 2019 | |
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Re-read my first paragraph. P&R's Palladin | |
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Too many parents are working two jobs, even those with degrees. Takes time away from their children, but often don't have a choice. Many companies, especially since the Bush economic downturn, stopped giving higher raises, cut their personnel in half, and are giving less perks, and offering lower wages. Very few companies have pensions for their employees, and are offering 401ks or 403bs instead.
On top of that the price of food/basic resources, transportation expenses, etc., been on the rise for the past 10 years. One of the good things though, is that a lot more people have started online businesses as a second/ third income, by using their creative skills/passions to make money from it. Thanks to FB, Instagram/Etsy/Amazon, etc., which help many people obtain subscribers/ customers for their businesses. On the other hand, not everyone has the skills or resources to start a business online. Homelessness is on the rise, rents all over major cities are skyrocketing, health care cost is still not affordable for many, just to name a few of many societal issues. [Edited 11/7/19 6:42am] | |
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Saw an interview with Sen Klobuchar. She comes from a union family. Some background info was the unions were formed to combat employer abuse during the Gilded Age. They gave us the rise of the middle class, factory workers, teachers etc. Now only 10% of US jobs are unionized. politics: the art or science of government. | |
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It's the end result of 40 years of neoliberal policy, and I don't mean that in a glib manner. As RodeoSchroe says "Trickle down" economics have never worked. [Edited 11/7/19 7:16am] | |
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Southern California. Year of Return 2019 | |
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Many union jobs are grossly overpaid. Not all, but many. This is partly why everything is so outrageously expensive. Also, take teachers for example. I'm speaking about Canadian teachers specifically. Most retire will full pension around 55. By full pension, I mean if you were a high school teacher making roughly $100K, once you retire your yearly pension is around $75K. Do you know anyone that has a pension quite like that?? I only know of teachers that are this fortunate. I'm not saying they shouldn't be paid well, of course they should, but why should they get more in pension that most people make for their yearly salarly. | |
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CEO pay is 271 times the nearly $58,000 annual average pay of the typical American worker. "If we had had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so." | |
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politics: the art or science of government. | |
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Empress, 100K? I'm guessing that is Canadian $$ and that translates to $75K/yr USD. Highest paid teachers that I know of are in NYC and I heard of an amount of $88K/yr for one with 10 years experience.
Pensions are dead here in US unless you are a teacher, police, fire, state or government worker and those pensions vary widely.
We ALL know that teachers, police and fire will need their pensions. So, I say since it was our Congress and Senators who probably voted long ago to stop pensions on most jobs---Let's vote to STOP their pensions and health care once they've left or have been voted out of office. Let them save on a 401K like the rest of us schlepers and make them choose their own healthcare. Get THEM (Dems and Pubes) OFF our government welfare and use that money for infrastructure and create more jobs. THAT might make the ones in office try to work together a little better. Style is the second cousin to class | |
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That might be in some exceptional cases at very big companies. But I bet it's not common. The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification - Thomas Henry Huxley | |
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It comes from a report from 2017 on the top 350 companies in the USA, and yeah, 15.7 million is the figure. You are correct that it is far from every company. | |
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Ideally speaking, the President of the United States and the dumbest person in the country would be two different people. Oh well.... money can't fix stupid | |
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And, evidently, the great graph maker thinks it's hilarious. "If we had had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so." | |
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Numbers footsie is a fun game for a few people. The rest of us are just poor. [Edited 11/15/19 6:08am] politics: the art or science of government. | |
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benni said:
Im just using the info of what I've just gone through. Going through an agency there were 2 separate amounts based on whether one chose to pay the hhc privately or whether everything was to be handled by the agency. Various agencies had slightly different amounts but they averaged what I stated. All I can say not my field of expertise but have done a mountain's worth of phone calling, meetings and interviews. Year of Return 2019 | |
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Yes, 100K. In fact, my friend made 105K and her pension is just a little over 75K. She taught high school english and art. And now, our teachers in Ontario are threatening to strike again. They say it's all about the kids, but it's really about the money. Who do they think they're kidding?? | |
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