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re: Apparently, there are now more job vacancies than unemployed people - do you believe this?
Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:07 am to fallguy_1978
Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:07 am to fallguy_1978
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If you find yourself making minimum wage as an adult than you made some very poor life decisions or your employer feels like you only have the bare minimum skills necessary to perform the job.
For most practical purposes, you're unemployable.
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:32 am to GREENHEAD22
Good and accurate observation. Had this discussion with a national contact today. Austin, Denver, Nashville, etc are exploding. Louisiana not so much
Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:34 am to GetCocky11
There are more jobs than “people looking for work”, not “unemployed people”.
Start kicking people off food stamps and SSDI if they’re able bodied and young enough to work. They either feed themselves or starve.
Start kicking people off food stamps and SSDI if they’re able bodied and young enough to work. They either feed themselves or starve.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:53 am to RogerTheShrubber
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A full-time worker with two kids needs at least $30,135 this year to be safely out of poverty. That’s $15 an hour for a forty-hour workweek.
These people should probably develop a skill, get an education and not have kids out of wedlock so they can have a dual income family.
Not everyone will make over minimum wage. But that's ok. If you're unskilled or uneducated and you've just GOT to have a kid...marry somebody. Double even a minimum wage income at a simple 40-hour week, and you've got a "livable" wage for having one kid, just under 30 grand. Of course, there are some increased costs with two people, but there are also plenty of shared costs.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:58 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
No kidding. Then consider these jobs are likely low pay and people still won't be able to make ends meet with them and will continue to need some level of assistance.
Hey, makes a great 10 second sound bit though. :eyeroll:
Hey, makes a great 10 second sound bit though. :eyeroll:
Posted on 6/6/18 at 11:22 am to yoga girl
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$15 per hour - or more.
There is no excuse for not having a $15 per hour minimum wage
Not that you're actually going to watch it but this would be five minutes of your life well spent...
Milton Friedman
Posted on 6/6/18 at 11:28 am to nola000
Problem with that is that the typical way up the ladder doesn't exist any more. It's talking out of both sides of the mouth. People that espouse stuff like this also work their damndest to monopolize as much as possible and to cut labor as much as possible to increase profits. It doesn't work either.
Of course, laws forcing them to pay more don't work either, as they'll just pass the increased cost directly back to the consumer thereby increasing COL yet again. The solution is going to be a violent one.
Of course, laws forcing them to pay more don't work either, as they'll just pass the increased cost directly back to the consumer thereby increasing COL yet again. The solution is going to be a violent one.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 11:45 am to EarlyCuyler3
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Problem with that is that the typical way up the ladder doesn't exist any more
Sure it does. If you're 40 and still making min wage, it's either by choice or you've really screwed up along the way.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 11:46 am to yoga girl
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There is no excuse for not having a $15 per hour minimum wage
Economics
Posted on 6/6/18 at 12:20 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I don't think so. The ladder has become much more streamlined due to advances in technology and experience. As corporations have grown in power they learned to cut labor as much as possible to increase shares, etc.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 12:21 pm to GetCocky11
Then you have a City in California, who is going to give people making less than 50K a year, a free $500 a month.
They are testing it soon, as they accept applications.
LOL, yeah, this will work.
They are testing it soon, as they accept applications.
LOL, yeah, this will work.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 12:29 pm to yoga girl
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There is no excuse for not having a $15 per hour minimum wage.
Sure, if you don't mind paying $35 for a hamburger
Posted on 6/6/18 at 12:30 pm to yoga girl
quote:Scruffy makes WAY less than that and is living very comfortably.
$15 per hour - or more.
There is no excuse for not having a $15 per hour minimum wage.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 12:30 pm to EarlyCuyler3
The basic principle still holds in that you shouldn't use the government to force equality and history is quite clear that the results are always negative and that the market Knows Best. Of course it's not perfect and it's never going to be but trying to force Perfection has always ended an absolute disaster.
But yeah, otherwise I agree with you.
But yeah, otherwise I agree with you.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 12:31 pm to yoga girl
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$15 per hour - or more.
There is no excuse for not having a $15 per hour minimum wage.
Just go away
Posted on 6/6/18 at 12:36 pm to fallguy_1978
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It's the percentage of the labor force that is actively seeking employment but remain unemployed. We are probably near full employment already.
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 12:36 pm to PUB
I would bet most of these jobs are concentrated in about 20 cities. They are certainly not spread evenly around the country.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 12:41 pm to Brosef Stalin
Probably very accurate assumption and was the feedback that I heard today. Some areas are cranking.
Did mention how other cities seem to get ahead with the infrastructure development before hitting close to capacity while NOLA and LA just react and patch over horrible problems.
Did mention how other cities seem to get ahead with the infrastructure development before hitting close to capacity while NOLA and LA just react and patch over horrible problems.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 7:06 pm to nola000
Yeah that doesn't work either. There's just no easy solution anymore now with globalization. It's going to be a very very painful correction. What the government is supposed to do is keep these things from getting so big and out of control. Unfortunately they've become the tool that is used to further the problem.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 7:20 pm to yoga girl
quote:I just finished both. Which of those articles refute anything I said?
Robert Reich, professor and former Secretary of Labor, has some great articles that refute what you said.
Not even Reich would disagree with ANYTHING I have said in this thread, as everything I have said is rudimentary economics.
So please enlighten me, sage of wisdom
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