How a single mother survives on $7.50/hr

I just thought about it, service industry jobs are the next bubble. With the increase in hiring for service industry (fast-food, sit-down restaurants, hotels, etc.) once automation picks up and companies start opting for machines and computers instead of humans it'll go the way the auto industry went, which will be more people out of work.

And most of u dudes' arguments only hold to people like ol girl in the OG post, yall might want to reevaluate your positions on the subject.
 
ksteezy said:
Immigrants must know something all these unemployed Americans don't then...because I dont understand how immigrants migrate with entire families and make ends meet without assistance...but there is no jobs.
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I know a lot of immigrants who get government assistance. When I go to the county building with my cousin its always predominately immigrants getting assistance.
 
what i don't get is people saying its ok for her to only work 20 hrs a week so her assistance doesn't get cut. **** if your really worried about providing for a kid a person will do whatever it takes. Get a second job or study or do something. Not let me sit on my *** only work 20hrs a week so i can get help. It baffles me that people are really ok with this. Most people work 40hrs a week and sacrifice time with their kids to continue and education even if that means online, part  time or at night. In my eyes working 20 hrs a week and not doing anything else is lazy period point blank! I work as a Staffing Coordinator i have people come into for jobs all the time tell me they only want to work part time so they can keep all their benefits and it literally takes so much not tot tell a person their a lazy ****. Like im offering you to work full time and benefits after 90 days but you wanna a be a lazy sob and work part time so that the government can support your *** smh
 
Rexanglorum said:
Forget about football or baseball, our real national past time is second guessing poor people. Men and women, black and white, conservative and liberal, rich and lower middle class alike are all united in their love of blurting out a neat and tidy solution when ever they hear the agonizing details from the life of a poor person.

Why is so difficult to acknowledge that being poor is not only painful, it is very difficult to escape being poor? The latest manifestation of this trend is the ritual excoriating of a poor person for having any electronic device that was made after 1985. Right after heat and lights, access to phone and internet are now basic utilities. You need them to get a job and to keep a job. Some will say "she could save a few bucks by downgrading to a flip phone." That may be true but she would have no TV, no internet, no entertainment at all. I suppose poor people deserve lives of tedium and isolation along with the hunger, pain and humiliating that they experience now. This women should come straight home from work and sit in prayer and penance and beg forgiveness from our almighty God, laissez-faire capitalism. For she has failed our God and she and her children must suffer for her sin of not having wealthy parents and therefore no college degree, trust fund and downtown internships that could have led the way to a lucrative and steady white collar career.

I also wonder; if she downgrades to a flip phone and saves $30 or $40, what could she do with that money that would help here get out of poverty? This, of course, assumes that her on demand employer does not require her to have an app or email account in order to send her her ever changing work schedule. She could save for a few years and take one community college class and she might have an associates degree in computer science (ah computers, the neoliberal panacea for poverty although woe betide the poor person who actually owns a computer) by 2085. She could invest in a junk bonds or risky stocks and maybe make a cool $20 playing the market. This, of course assumes, she does not get a "walking while black" ticket and has to pay a few hundred bucks in municipal fines. What would you do with $300 bucks per year that would get you our of this sort of deep and dire poverty?

I expect this kind of ignorance and stupidity from white conservatives but I am amazed that an online community that is generally liberal and multicultural, would he just as bad as the Republican soccer moms in the suburbs. Americans say that we live a judeo-christian society but the truth is that when it comes to poor people, we are more like a superstitious, neolithic tribe. We have this atavistic belief that tormenting poor people will some how banish the evil spirits of poverty and want from our own lives. It is sad and it shows me why we are very unlikely to ever make meaningful strides toward economic justice.
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I know I'm late but :wow:
 
sh0rtyy12 said:
 
what i don't get is people saying its ok for her to only work 20 hrs a week so her assistance doesn't get cut. **** if your really worried about providing for a kid a person will do whatever it takes. Get a second job or study or do something. Not let me sit on my *** only work 20hrs a week so i can get help. It baffles me that people are really ok with this. Most people work 40hrs a week and sacrifice time with their kids to continue and education even if that means online, part  time or at night. In my eyes working 20 hrs a week and not doing anything else is lazy period point blank! I work as a Staffing Coordinator i have people come into for jobs all the time tell me they only want to work part time so they can keep all their benefits and it literally takes so much not tot tell a person their a lazy ****. Like im offering you to work full time and benefits after 90 days but you wanna a be a lazy sob and work part time so that the government can support your *** smh
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because what is the point of making the same amount of money for doing double the work is the mindset

. theyd rather take the 20 hours and they going to be making the same amount as if they were working  40 hours . i dont think its about being lazy at all. even lose some of the benefits like health coverage and things like that. 

everyone is in a different situation. 
 
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sh0rtyy12 said:
what i don't get is people saying its ok for her to only work 20 hrs a week so her assistance doesn't get cut. **** if your really worried about providing for a kid a person will do whatever it takes. Get a second job or study or do something. Not let me sit on my *** only work 20hrs a week so i can get help.
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No one said it's ok

We said it's sad if someone worked 40 hours at minimum wage they still couldn't support themselves, hence the minimum wage needing to be higher so it can be a livable wage.

I find it very hard to believe anybody with a kid would choose risking not getting the rent paid and not having food vs the opposite

Maybe you could sleep on benches and figure out a way but not when you have a kid
 
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