Do you ever feel bad for the people working in minimum wage jobs?
I have no feelings for people working in minimum wage jobs, good or bad. It's just what it is. If it's the difference between them having minimum wage employment or no employment at all, I think everyone is better off if they have minimum wage employment. The thing I don't like is that the system is rigged so that most employers can under-compensate people for the value they add while excessively compensating CEOs and other powerful people within the organization based primarily on their position and on the value they're BELIEVED to be adding versus what they're ACTUALLY contributing. You know something's out of whack when a CEO makes on average 200 to 400 times what their average (let alone their minimum) wage worker makes! At best you know it's not based on hard work nor solely on merit. I feel bad that the US has allowed this to happen to itself. It's a country that should be better than that.
So, me and my kids are on the verge of being homeless AGAIN, I work a 60 hour week now, Any ideas???
me and my kids are pretty much on our own, we have only each other. they are all scoolage teens, but not old enough to work. I dont want to go on welfare, the LITTLE help that would be {yes, been there/done that} is not worth the hassel. In this very southern part of Ga. there is no help for housing/ rent open for some people, last year we lived in our car thru most of the summer months and everywhere i went, churches, gov. agenceys ect... was always the same thing 'NO FUNDS AVAILABLE' I think thats standard policy in this small so.ga. town, I try so hard to make ends meet, ive even worked 2 full time jobs and it almost killed me. i do odd jobs around my regular job, any and everything thars legal, i dont have time to go to school all i do is work and work and work!
Why are grown adults working minimum-wage jobs?
Very few minimum wage jobs allow a person to develop skills to progress to higher paying jobs.Thinking they do is thinking we still have a labor intensive manufacturing economy.Thinking these are jobs are meant for kids is an indication you don't know what these jobs are. Many of these low wage jobs are working in nursing homes and hospitals helping move patients and cleaning up after them. Many are cleaning offices and bathrooms after the close of business. Many are performing hard labor while kids are in school. Many of these jobs involve pulling the guts out of chickens for processing. Many of those low wage retail and food jobs are at 24 hour places conflicting with school or are the graveyard shift.As for how much they should or should not make, that is a philosophical question. It really depends on whether you believe a business that cannot offer a living wage should be saved by the government subsidizing the employee’s survival.Of course many companies providing wages below the poverty rate are not just profitable, they are highly profitable. McDonalds with no price increases would remain profitable at $15 an hour though it would take about half their profits. In the lower margin world of retail it would take 80% of Walmart’s profits if there were no price increases.Both companies are holding substantial cash to pay in dividends but also to artificially prop up stock prices by buying their stock back.So it really is a question of who pays these people enough to have food, utilities, and housing? The government or their employers?Now the national debate ignores that costs differ.If you make the Arkansas minimum wage $8.50 that the equivalent of making $15 an hour in San Francisco. I know a lot of people in Arkansas who were proud to vote for the state wage increase who think those people in San Francisco are crazy for supporting $15 an hour even though it provides a similar standard of living.
I hate my life where I'm at and I feel stuck? I've thought about ultimately ending things...?
My freshmen yr. of college I went off happiest days of my adolescent life. Before in high school I didn't really have friends, freedom, rejected from boys, bullied pretty rough so I thought a fresh start would eliminate the issue. I went through even tougher times after my gma died of her long fight with breast cancer right before awareness month. My grades came back horrible. I went back again it was a little better but I failed the science courses which were my basics for my major. I decided to change into business/fashion studies and received absolutely no support from anyone. So in result of my low gpa and limited finance I had to return back home and take classes at local college. Now I have no social life, one friend, no bf, no direction in life as far as career b/c no one can support me or even believe that I can make a career in what makes me happy in life. Now that's a broad description going in depth into my story I'm 19 and I'm not allowed to do anything my age is allowed to do. I have no guy friends I can't sleep over at my only friends house, I get picked up and dropped off at school. I dress very conservative and my clothes which I've owned for years are now seemed as unacceptable. I'm not a bad kid either I don't drink, do drugs, party. I'm basically a home-body. I have no social life in real life, on Facebook, Twitter. I'm just miserable and depressed I don't want to even be here it was my worst fear to return home and it happened. I'm in desperate search of a job but I've been on 3 interviews nothing its tough. I have no transportation so the only thing I've come up with is transfer take out loans to go to my college of choice Georgia Southern. I don't know how it will be possible. I need to get out there's more to my story as far as verbal abuse and some physical I just need to leave and I have no way out. If I don't leave I'll flip out one day and it won't be good. I'm losing hair, breaking out, crying everyday which results in headaches, lonely.