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The real cost of low wages
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-04-26 15:04:33
low wages aren't the real problem. the real problem is that 1% of 1% control and own everything and the money grabbing they live for is hurting the other 99.99% of the worlds population. My friend replied with this:
Quote: your right there not the real problem because we are dealing with low wage jobs and lesser paying jobs and pretty much part time only aspects because of free trade deals Hate to break it to you, but the high increase of part time jobs was not caused by free trade agreements. The large increases didn't happen until around 2010. Guess what law was passed that directly effects part time work?
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2015-04-26 17:13:11
Guess what law was passed that directly effects part time work?
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By Garuda.Chanti 2015-04-26 19:37:06
low wages aren't the real problem. the real problem is that 1% of 1% control and own everything and the money grabbing they live for is hurting the other 99.99% of the worlds population. My friend replied with this:
Quote: your right there not the real problem because we are dealing with low wage jobs and lesser paying jobs and pretty much part time only aspects because of free trade deals Hate to break it to you, but the high increase of part time jobs was not caused by free trade agreements. The large increases didn't happen until around 2010. Guess what law was passed that directly effects part time work? So I have this baker friend.
One of the last of the family wage blue collar jobs (although his is white with flour.) (Used to be Franz, I forget who bought them out.)
"NA FTA? Won't affect me."
Then he learned that frozen hamburger buns were being shipped from Mexico as far north as San Fran Cisco.
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By EpicFantasy 2015-04-26 20:20:25
Crazy thought. Nafta and the ACA are both horrible and both put more burden on American jobs.
But hey lets keep voting democrats into office for hope, change and bigger government to care for all the people they screw over.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-04-26 21:52:57
low wages aren't the real problem. the real problem is that 1% of 1% control and own everything and the money grabbing they live for is hurting the other 99.99% of the worlds population. My friend replied with this:
Quote: your right there not the real problem because we are dealing with low wage jobs and lesser paying jobs and pretty much part time only aspects because of free trade deals Hate to break it to you, but the high increase of part time jobs was not caused by free trade agreements. The large increases didn't happen until around 2010. Guess what law was passed that directly effects part time work? So I have this baker friend.
One of the last of the family wage blue collar jobs (although his is white with flour.) (Used to be Franz, I forget who bought them out.)
"NA FTA? Won't affect me."
Then he learned that frozen hamburger buns were being shipped from Mexico as far north as San Fran Cisco. Somehow, I believe that you aren't telling the truth with this....
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By Asura.Saevel 2015-04-26 23:08:31
The problem with all the Free Trade Agreements is that the USA is the only one honoring them. Everyone else just finds alternative ways to create non-tariff trade barriers to protect their own domestic economies. Usually these come in the form of various tax regulations such as a tax for all beef but an exemption for domestically grown beef, or a tax on "luxury items" and then automatically classifying imported goods as "luxury items" while providing a method for domestic producers to be exempt or reduce the effect.
Ultimately the goal is always the same, to increase the effective prices of imported goods as a method of protecting domestic jobs from foreign competition. The terminology of the treaties never address's a countries domestic policies that could have impacts on foreign imports.
By Jetackuu 2015-04-26 23:30:54
low wages aren't the real problem. the real problem is that 1% of 1% control and own everything and the money grabbing they live for is hurting the other 99.99% of the worlds population. My friend replied with this:
Quote: your right there not the real problem because we are dealing with low wage jobs and lesser paying jobs and pretty much part time only aspects because of free trade deals Hate to break it to you, but the high increase of part time jobs was not caused by free trade agreements. The large increases didn't happen until around 2010. Guess what law was passed that directly effects part time work? {citation needed intensifies}
Seriously the push for part time over full time positions has been going on for over a decade, where have you been?
Actually iirc one of the first pushes started decades ago, but either way, way before 2010.
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By Valefor.Endoq 2015-04-27 00:39:26
How to make better wages and jobs, Repeal free trade acts.
congressional meeting talking about how bad a deal America got out of free trade deals under republican and democratic leadership
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NAFTA job loss year established 1993 = 680,000 jobs lost from America, all major TV networks and Both Political parties advertised this as being a great deal to have.
Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China act job loss year established 2000 = lead to the loss of over 2.2 million American jobs, Both parties and major networks agreed it was a great deal and passed it.
South Korean Free Trade Act jobs lost Year established 2011 = 60,000 jobs were lost from America, Major networks approved both parties approved.
Since 2001 due to free trade deals we have lost 60,000 factories in America, over that time period we lost over 4.7 million Manufacturing jobs in America.
In 1970 25% of all jobs in America were manufacturing jobs. Today there is only 9%.
In january 2001 there was 17.1 million manufacturing workers. Today that number is 12.3 million manufacturing workers in America.
Across all 50 states lost 34% of there manufacturing jobs over the past 14 years.
We are now faced with the Trans Pacific Free Trade Act that is written by corporations. Its reported to be the largest free trade act in history. Wall street, Pharmaceutical Industry and Major media companies have full knowledge of whats in the treaty. The american people and members of congress do not and have been locked out of the process.
There has been estimated jobs that could be losted to Vietnam and japan alone more then 135,000 jobs if it goes into effect thats just the tip of the iceberg.
More than manufacturing jobs to be lost in America due to TPP include the following over 3 million service center jobs;
call centers
computer programing
engineering
accounting
Medical diagnostic jobs
Free trade acts are bad. Whats more disturbing is these deals have been put in place by both the Republicans and Democrats at the behest of Corporations. Are you convinced now that they do not represent the peoples best interest ? Stop voting for Republicans and Democrats, lets reasses all these free trade acts , repeal them, and put our foot down on all these corporations and ceo's causing economic terrorism in the United States of America and bring our jobs home and rebuild this country to be even stronger to be A Better America.
the only way to get better wages and more jobs back to America seems to make some sense.
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By Phoenix.Xantavia 2015-04-27 02:06:20
low wages aren't the real problem. the real problem is that 1% of 1% control and own everything and the money grabbing they live for is hurting the other 99.99% of the worlds population. My friend replied with this:
Quote: your right there not the real problem because we are dealing with low wage jobs and lesser paying jobs and pretty much part time only aspects because of free trade deals Hate to break it to you, but the high increase of part time jobs was not caused by free trade agreements. The large increases didn't happen until around 2010. Guess what law was passed that directly effects part time work? And when exactly did the employer mandate part go into effect in regards to the ACA that would force companies to cut employees to part time if they didn't want to provide insurance? Because it sure in hell wasn't 2010, it was just a convenient excuse to slash their workforce.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-04-27 06:42:15
{citation needed intensifies}
Seriously the push for part time over full time positions has been going on for over a decade, where have you been?
Actually iirc one of the first pushes started decades ago, but either way, way before 2010. Like you have any right to demand for sources. You never back up any of your claims.
And when exactly did the employer mandate part go into effect in regards to the ACA that would force companies to cut employees to part time if they didn't want to provide insurance? Because it sure in hell wasn't 2010, it was just a convenient excuse to slash their workforce. You apparently never read the law. I forgive you, because most people didn't, including those who drafted and signed the law.
Or you forgot that the law was supposed to take effect on an election year, and because of how unpopular it was, the mandates were pushed back a couple of years until after those elections were held.
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By Garuda.Chanti 2015-04-27 10:15:52
low wages aren't the real problem. the real problem is that 1% of 1% control and own everything and the money grabbing they live for is hurting the other 99.99% of the worlds population. My friend replied with this:
Quote: your right there not the real problem because we are dealing with low wage jobs and lesser paying jobs and pretty much part time only aspects because of free trade deals Hate to break it to you, but the high increase of part time jobs was not caused by free trade agreements. The large increases didn't happen until around 2010. Guess what law was passed that directly effects part time work? So I have this baker friend.
One of the last of the family wage blue collar jobs (although his is white with flour.) (Used to be Franz, I forget who bought them out.)
"NA FTA? Won't affect me."
Then he learned that frozen hamburger buns were being shipped from Mexico as far north as San Fran Cisco. Somehow, I believe that you aren't telling the truth with this.... Which part do you find unbelievable?
That I have friends?
That there are still family wage blue collar jobs?
Or that frozen hamburger buns were being shipped over 1,000 miles?
Please remember that frozen hamburger buns are used by fast food places. Also the cost of fuel in the immediate wake of NAFTA was under $2/gallon. Factor in Mexican labor at less for a day than my friend makes in an hour.
It adds up.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-04-27 11:34:55
low wages aren't the real problem. the real problem is that 1% of 1% control and own everything and the money grabbing they live for is hurting the other 99.99% of the worlds population. My friend replied with this:
Quote: your right there not the real problem because we are dealing with low wage jobs and lesser paying jobs and pretty much part time only aspects because of free trade deals Hate to break it to you, but the high increase of part time jobs was not caused by free trade agreements. The large increases didn't happen until around 2010. Guess what law was passed that directly effects part time work? So I have this baker friend.
One of the last of the family wage blue collar jobs (although his is white with flour.) (Used to be Franz, I forget who bought them out.)
"NA FTA? Won't affect me."
Then he learned that frozen hamburger buns were being shipped from Mexico as far north as San Fran Cisco. Somehow, I believe that you aren't telling the truth with this.... Which part do you find unbelievable?
That I have friends?
That there are still family wage blue collar jobs?
Or that frozen hamburger buns were being shipped over 1,000 miles?
Please remember that frozen hamburger buns are used by fast food places. Also the cost of fuel in the immediate wake of NAFTA was under $2/gallon. Factor in Mexican labor at less for a day than my friend makes in an hour.
It adds up. That your baker friend actually lost business because of NAFTA.
You made it sound like he could, you know, compete with the larger-scale bakeries who mass produce the buns needed for the demand of these fast-food places.
Or are you going to say that he was the owner of one of those places? How tall will you tell your tale? You are a tired old cynic, and I hardly believe you when you say you had a baker friend, but I am giving you the benefit of the doubt. But any baker you would know would be a one-man shop, not a major national baker.
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By Ragnarok.Nausi 2015-04-27 16:15:29
College debt wouldn't be as big of a deal if people didn't treat money as if it was going to burn their house down if they didn't get rid of it immediately. When I see people complain about having college debt years after they graduate, I look at their car(s), their house, their clothes, their furniture, and/or their gadgets. Almost always, my sympathy goes out the window.
College costs are the way they are because the government will on any whim print up money for people to attend. This floods the market with inflated and artificial demand which the market responds to by (big surprise) adjusting supply in the form of higher tuition costs.
Commonly known as the higher-ed bubble. One of my biggest criticisms of Sen. Warren is that she clamors for higher education spending via free college tuition or limitless loans, when she was a hackjob teacher who taught one class and got paid 350k a year for it because in part of the government flood of money into the college education sector.
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2015-05-03 20:18:07
So I saw this article about résumés, and apparently it's all in the font. But then I saw this at the bottom of the article.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-05-03 22:12:57
So I saw this article about résumés, and apparently it's all in the font. But then I saw this at the bottom of the article.
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Americans are spending $153 billion a year to subsidize McDonald’s and Wal-Mart’s low wage workers
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Quote: The low wages paid by businesses, including some of the largest and most profitable companies in the U.S. – like McDonald’s and Wal-Mart – are costing taxpayers nearly $153 billion a year.
After decades of wage cuts and health benefit rollbacks, more than half of all state and federal spending on public assistance programs goes to working families who need food stamps, Medicaid, or other support to meet basic needs. Let that sink in — American taxpayers are subsidizing people who work — most of them full-time (in some case more than full-time) because businesses do not pay a living wage.
Workers like Terrence Wise, a 35-year-old father who works part-time at McDonald’s and Burger King in Kansas City, Mo., and his fiancée Myosha Johnson, a home care worker, are among millions of families in the U.S. who work an average of 38 hours per week but still rely on public assistance. Wise is paid $8.50 an hour at his McDonald’s job and $9 an hour at Burger King. Johnson is paid just above $10 an hour, even after a decade in her field. Wise and Johnson together rely on $240 a month in food stamps to feed their three kids, a cost borne by taxpayers.
The problem of low wages and the accompanying public cost extends far beyond the fast-food industry. Forty-eight percent of home care workers rely on public assistance. In child care, it’s 46 percent. Among part-time college faculty—some of the most highly educated workers in the country—it’s 25 percent.
Ebony Hughes is paid $7.50 an hour as a home care worker in Durham, N.C., and has a second job at a local KFC. While the home care industry has the fastest growing number of jobs in America, these workers are some of the lowest paid in the country – earning, on average, $13,000 a year. To get enough hours to pay the bills, Hughes works from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. But she and her daughter still rely on public assistance to make ends meet.
UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education, which I chair, has analyzed state spending for Medicaid/Children’s Health Insurance Program and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and federal spending for those programs as well as food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit.
We found that, on average, 52 percent of state public assistance spending supports working families (defined as working for at least 26 weeks a year and 10 hours a week) – with costs as high as $3.7 billion in California, $3.3 billion in New York, and $2 billion in Texas.
In recent months, the substantial public cost of low wages has prompted elected officials to take action. Legislators in California, Colorado, Maine, Oregon, and Washington are considering increasing the minimum wage to $12 an hour. In Connecticut, a proposal currently moving through the state legislature would fine large companies that pay low wages in an effort to recoup the costs imposed on taxpayers.
When 73 percent of people who benefit from major public assistance programs live in a working family, our economy isn’t operating the way it should – and could – be. From 2003-2013, inflation-adjusted wages fell for the entire bottom 70 percent of the workforce. Over the same time period we have also seen a large decline in the share of Americans with job-based health coverage.
Today – on Tax Day – underpaid workers are striking and protesting in cities across the country and around the globe to call for $15 an hour and the right to form a union. Their success would increase family incomes for tens of millions of adjunct professors, fast-food, home care and child care workers, among other underpaid workers. Raising wages would also generate significant savings to state and federal governments, and allow them to better target how our tax dollars are used.
Public assistance programs provide a vital support system for American families. But when Americans like Wise, Johnson and Hughes are working as hard as they can and are still paid too little to get by without public support, we need action to raise wages. On Tax Day it is a good time to take a hard look at the high public cost of low wages in the United States.
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