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College-educated Americans are being thrust into poverty while increasingly finding that their degrees have no value in the work force. About 280,000 Americans with bachelor’s degrees and 37,000 with advanced degrees were working minimum-wage jobs in 2012, the Labor Department reports. The number of college-educated Americans working such jobs has risen 70 percent in the past 10 years. It is also double the number who worked minimum-wage jobs before the Great Recession.
In 2002, college graduates made up 13 percent of all hourly workers. In 2012, they made up 17.8 percent. Overall, college grads typically earn more than their non-educated counterparts, but this gap is growing smaller as more Americans are finding themselves financially insecure. Nearly 50 percent of college graduates from the class of 2010 are now working jobs that don’t require a bachelor’s degree, while 38 percent of these graduates are working jobs that don’t even require a high school diploma, according to the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. Research conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the economy’s decline has largely pushed low-skilled labor workers out of the job market completely, while providing highly educated Americans with minimum wage jobs. http://rt.com/usa/college-graduates-minimum-wage-174/ |
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They should have gotten an education in something they could use in the real world.
Here's a hint for a good job. Border Patrol/DHS. Some of their jobs pay 15.00 an hour and don't require an HS diploma. |
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Edited by
msharmony
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well, if I see numbers like that, I can say they should pick a better job
but shouldn't I likewise blow off voter id numbers by saying they SHOULD prosecute those who are guilty of it? in any case, there are large enough numbers of those doing the 'right' things and working 'hard' who are still not having any realistic chance at their American dream because of unlivable wages they get stuck with,,,, for it to be addressed and adjusted |
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i hope they fire all these idiots and hire news ones a 11.00 bucks an hour... that will teach these idiots... I think 11 is an awesome low bar for what employers should be able to pay,,, ID sign that petition anyday well great, raise the prices even more...thanks... remember who's going to pay for their raise... lol , you suggested 11 dollars and what prices are you talking about? the price of the dollar menu? lol, I think we can accommodate the change,,lol i see in your liberalness, someone forgot to explain economics to you... if you really think from the CEO down is going to take any kind of pay cuts for this, your very wrong... no more dollar menu's? then they loss millions in business that they had from people wanting to save money and keep their kids happy from nothing but the dollar menu. and not just the dollar menu, the price of everything goes up... and people don't deserve more money just because they go to work, most people get a raise as a reward for hard work... i have never seen anyone worth over 10 DPH at any fast food place. if your not happy at your job, then get another one... not that hard |
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Edited by
Sojourning_Soul
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Thu 08/29/13 03:46 PM
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If employers are forced to pay more, on top of Obozocare regulations, there won't be any jobs to get paid more at!
Fewer people making less money, or businesses closing is what you will get! Liberals scream "Help the poor" then regulate them out of the jobs they can get! They think "No worries, welfare will help them!", but not if there isn't a tax base for gov't to steal the money from! Just like the changes employers are making to avoid Obozocare, pass this one and see what happens! |
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What happened to the "shovel ready jobs" that Obama promised? How much did that cost? If I remember it was about 7 trillion dollars. that would pay a lot of hamburger flippers $15 an hour.
Where did that money go? 
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Laila Jennings, a 29-year-old sales associate at T.J. Maxx, was eating at a McDonald's in New York City this week and said she hadn't heard of the movement. Still, she said she thinks workers should be paid more. "They work on their feet all day," Jennings said, adding that $12 to $15 an hour seemed fair. As it stands, fast-food workers say they can't live on what they're paid. Shaniqua Davis, 20, lives in the Bronx with her boyfriend, who is unemployed, and their 1-year-old daughter. Davis has worked at a McDonald's a few blocks from her apartment for the past three months, earning $7.25 an hour. Her schedule varies, but she never gets close to 40 hours a week. "Forty? Never. They refuse to let you get to that (many) hours." Her weekly paycheck is $150 or much lower. "One of my paychecks, I only got $71 on there. So I wasn't able to do much with that. My daughter needs stuff, I need to get stuff for my apartment," said Davis, who plans to take part in the strike Thursday. She pays the rent with public assistance but struggles to afford food, diapers, subway and taxi fares, cable TV and other expenses with her paycheck. "It's really hard," she said. "If I didn't have public assistance to help me out, I think I would have been out on the street already with the money I make at McDonald's." What do you say? This is what I say... to Ms Davis... You are 20 yrs old. You have a 1 yr old daughter at home and her daddy, your boyfriend, doesn't work. You get your rent paid for by the state. You have a part time job and are struggling to pay the bills. Welcome to the real world honey. Be thankful taxpayers are putting a roof over your daughter's head for ya. Some of us in the old days had to work two jobs and go without things like cable to pay the rent while we struggled to make our way in the world. Maybe you should have waited to start a family until you could afford to buy diapers. But alas, that ship has sailed, so please tell your boyfriend to put down the X-box paddles and get a job and help support your family! Give up the cable. Switch to cloth diapers...daddy can wash 'em out between X-Boxing and watching HBO on the high def flat screen TV. Get up an hour earlier and walk those few blocks to work instead of taking a cab. Did ya call that cab on your fancy Iphone 5? Please! Really?!? I'm sick of people thinking they're entitled to a life of luxury. Stop whining about how you should get more so you can work less. Enough already. Get me a burger biotch! 
Yah, that's what I'd say... |
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^^^^^^^^^^^^
Daum! I love this woman! : 
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Edited by
Sojourning_Soul
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Thu 08/29/13 06:25 PM
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Laila Jennings, a 29-year-old sales associate at T.J. Maxx, was eating at a McDonald's in New York City this week and said she hadn't heard of the movement. Still, she said she thinks workers should be paid more. "They work on their feet all day," Jennings said, adding that $12 to $15 an hour seemed fair. As it stands, fast-food workers say they can't live on what they're paid. Shaniqua Davis, 20, lives in the Bronx with her boyfriend, who is unemployed, and their 1-year-old daughter. Davis has worked at a McDonald's a few blocks from her apartment for the past three months, earning $7.25 an hour. Her schedule varies, but she never gets close to 40 hours a week. "Forty? Never. They refuse to let you get to that (many) hours." Her weekly paycheck is $150 or much lower. "One of my paychecks, I only got $71 on there. So I wasn't able to do much with that. My daughter needs stuff, I need to get stuff for my apartment," said Davis, who plans to take part in the strike Thursday. She pays the rent with public assistance but struggles to afford food, diapers, subway and taxi fares, cable TV and other expenses with her paycheck. "It's really hard," she said. "If I didn't have public assistance to help me out, I think I would have been out on the street already with the money I make at McDonald's." What do you say? This is what I say... to Ms Davis... You are 20 yrs old. You have a 1 yr old daughter at home and her daddy, your boyfriend, doesn't work. You get your rent paid for by the state. You have a part time job and are struggling to pay the bills. Welcome to the real world honey. Be thankful taxpayers are putting a roof over your daughter's head for ya. Some of us in the old days had to work two jobs and go without things like cable to pay the rent while we struggled to make our way in the world. Maybe you should have waited to start a family until you could afford to buy diapers. But alas, that ship has sailed, so please tell your boyfriend to put down the X-box paddles and get a job and help support your family! Give up the cable. Switch to cloth diapers...daddy can wash 'em out between X-Boxing and watching HBO on the high def flat screen TV. Get up an hour earlier and walk those few blocks to work instead of taking a cab. Did ya call that cab on your fancy Iphone 5? Please! Really?!? I'm sick of people thinking they're entitled to a life of luxury. Stop whining about how you should get more so you can work less. Enough already. Get me a burger biotch!
Yah, that's what I'd say... 
Damn you ARE miss wright! Where you been all my life girl? 
One correction tho..... not "boyfriend".... it's "baby daddy" 
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Edited by
alleoops
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Thu 08/29/13 06:28 PM
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besides, there are 30 million illegals willing to step in and take those jobs.
Like hog calling? hell yea!
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^^^^^^^^^^^^ Daum! I love this woman! :
 Awww, thanks.
Sugar coating is not my forte and I tend to tell it like I see it. |
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Laila Jennings, a 29-year-old sales associate at T.J. Maxx, was eating at a McDonald's in New York City this week and said she hadn't heard of the movement. Still, she said she thinks workers should be paid more. "They work on their feet all day," Jennings said, adding that $12 to $15 an hour seemed fair. As it stands, fast-food workers say they can't live on what they're paid. Shaniqua Davis, 20, lives in the Bronx with her boyfriend, who is unemployed, and their 1-year-old daughter. Davis has worked at a McDonald's a few blocks from her apartment for the past three months, earning $7.25 an hour. Her schedule varies, but she never gets close to 40 hours a week. "Forty? Never. They refuse to let you get to that (many) hours." Her weekly paycheck is $150 or much lower. "One of my paychecks, I only got $71 on there. So I wasn't able to do much with that. My daughter needs stuff, I need to get stuff for my apartment," said Davis, who plans to take part in the strike Thursday. She pays the rent with public assistance but struggles to afford food, diapers, subway and taxi fares, cable TV and other expenses with her paycheck. "It's really hard," she said. "If I didn't have public assistance to help me out, I think I would have been out on the street already with the money I make at McDonald's." What do you say? This is what I say... to Ms Davis... You are 20 yrs old. You have a 1 yr old daughter at home and her daddy, your boyfriend, doesn't work. You get your rent paid for by the state. You have a part time job and are struggling to pay the bills. Welcome to the real world honey. Be thankful taxpayers are putting a roof over your daughter's head for ya. Some of us in the old days had to work two jobs and go without things like cable to pay the rent while we struggled to make our way in the world. Maybe you should have waited to start a family until you could afford to buy diapers. But alas, that ship has sailed, so please tell your boyfriend to put down the X-box paddles and get a job and help support your family! Give up the cable. Switch to cloth diapers...daddy can wash 'em out between X-Boxing and watching HBO on the high def flat screen TV. Get up an hour earlier and walk those few blocks to work instead of taking a cab. Did ya call that cab on your fancy Iphone 5? Please! Really?!? I'm sick of people thinking they're entitled to a life of luxury. Stop whining about how you should get more so you can work less. Enough already. Get me a burger biotch!
Yah, that's what I'd say...
Damn you ARE miss wright! Where you been all my life girl?
One correction tho..... not "boyfriend".... it's "baby daddy"
I almost busted a gut!... only because I HAD 'baby's daddy' in there originally before proofing and opted for boyfriend instead to try to curb possible perceived racism in my statement. Thanks for the correction, and the compliment.
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Edited by
Sojourning_Soul
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Thu 08/29/13 07:11 PM
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Laila Jennings, a 29-year-old sales associate at T.J. Maxx, was eating at a McDonald's in New York City this week and said she hadn't heard of the movement. Still, she said she thinks workers should be paid more. "They work on their feet all day," Jennings said, adding that $12 to $15 an hour seemed fair. As it stands, fast-food workers say they can't live on what they're paid. Shaniqua Davis, 20, lives in the Bronx with her boyfriend, who is unemployed, and their 1-year-old daughter. Davis has worked at a McDonald's a few blocks from her apartment for the past three months, earning $7.25 an hour. Her schedule varies, but she never gets close to 40 hours a week. "Forty? Never. They refuse to let you get to that (many) hours." Her weekly paycheck is $150 or much lower. "One of my paychecks, I only got $71 on there. So I wasn't able to do much with that. My daughter needs stuff, I need to get stuff for my apartment," said Davis, who plans to take part in the strike Thursday. She pays the rent with public assistance but struggles to afford food, diapers, subway and taxi fares, cable TV and other expenses with her paycheck. "It's really hard," she said. "If I didn't have public assistance to help me out, I think I would have been out on the street already with the money I make at McDonald's." What do you say? This is what I say... to Ms Davis... You are 20 yrs old. You have a 1 yr old daughter at home and her daddy, your boyfriend, doesn't work. You get your rent paid for by the state. You have a part time job and are struggling to pay the bills. Welcome to the real world honey. Be thankful taxpayers are putting a roof over your daughter's head for ya. Some of us in the old days had to work two jobs and go without things like cable to pay the rent while we struggled to make our way in the world. Maybe you should have waited to start a family until you could afford to buy diapers. But alas, that ship has sailed, so please tell your boyfriend to put down the X-box paddles and get a job and help support your family! Give up the cable. Switch to cloth diapers...daddy can wash 'em out between X-Boxing and watching HBO on the high def flat screen TV. Get up an hour earlier and walk those few blocks to work instead of taking a cab. Did ya call that cab on your fancy Iphone 5? Please! Really?!? I'm sick of people thinking they're entitled to a life of luxury. Stop whining about how you should get more so you can work less. Enough already. Get me a burger biotch!
Yah, that's what I'd say...
Damn you ARE miss wright! Where you been all my life girl?
One correction tho..... not "boyfriend".... it's "baby daddy"
I almost busted a gut!... only because I HAD 'baby's daddy' in there originally before proofing and opted for boyfriend instead to try to curb possible perceived racism in my statement. Thanks for the correction, and the compliment.
It's baby daddy, her boyfriend probably lives with someone else.... like his wife, or baby momma. I've watched Jerry Springer a couple of times...... |
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Edited by
msharmony
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Fri 08/30/13 07:09 AM
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i hope they fire all these idiots and hire news ones a 11.00 bucks an hour... that will teach these idiots... I think 11 is an awesome low bar for what employers should be able to pay,,, ID sign that petition anyday well great, raise the prices even more...thanks... remember who's going to pay for their raise... lol , you suggested 11 dollars and what prices are you talking about? the price of the dollar menu? lol, I think we can accommodate the change,,lol i see in your liberalness, someone forgot to explain economics to you... if you really think from the CEO down is going to take any kind of pay cuts for this, your very wrong... no more dollar menu's? then they loss millions in business that they had from people wanting to save money and keep their kids happy from nothing but the dollar menu. and not just the dollar menu, the price of everything goes up... and people don't deserve more money just because they go to work, most people get a raise as a reward for hard work... i have never seen anyone worth over 10 DPH at any fast food place. if your not happy at your job, then get another one... not that hard it is 'that hard' because employers have such a low bar of how much they have to pay do you think when people are in an economy where 'any job is better than no job' and there are dozens or hundreds of candidates applying to the positions,, that the employers are concerned about paying what someone is 'worth',,, ? or do you think employees are just concerned about getting paid something? leaving employers to pay whatever they can legally get away with paying so their profits are more? cut from the top who are working no harder than anyone else, and let other people have a fair shake at being able to have a living wage for a hard days work,,, again, at EVERY STAGE of the wage debate when the min wage has been lifted,, we have heard these same tired arguments,, and yet the wealth at the top has managed to continue increasing, as well as the middle the only ones who continue to stagnate are those 'working class' putting in their honest and hard days work like everyone else ane being shat upon in return just because the capitalist culture continues to let it happen,,, |
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Laila Jennings, a 29-year-old sales associate at T.J. Maxx, was eating at a McDonald's in New York City this week and said she hadn't heard of the movement. Still, she said she thinks workers should be paid more. "They work on their feet all day," Jennings said, adding that $12 to $15 an hour seemed fair. As it stands, fast-food workers say they can't live on what they're paid. Shaniqua Davis, 20, lives in the Bronx with her boyfriend, who is unemployed, and their 1-year-old daughter. Davis has worked at a McDonald's a few blocks from her apartment for the past three months, earning $7.25 an hour. Her schedule varies, but she never gets close to 40 hours a week. "Forty? Never. They refuse to let you get to that (many) hours." Her weekly paycheck is $150 or much lower. "One of my paychecks, I only got $71 on there. So I wasn't able to do much with that. My daughter needs stuff, I need to get stuff for my apartment," said Davis, who plans to take part in the strike Thursday. She pays the rent with public assistance but struggles to afford food, diapers, subway and taxi fares, cable TV and other expenses with her paycheck. "It's really hard," she said. "If I didn't have public assistance to help me out, I think I would have been out on the street already with the money I make at McDonald's." What do you say? This is what I say... to Ms Davis... You are 20 yrs old. You have a 1 yr old daughter at home and her daddy, your boyfriend, doesn't work. You get your rent paid for by the state. You have a part time job and are struggling to pay the bills. Welcome to the real world honey. Be thankful taxpayers are putting a roof over your daughter's head for ya. Some of us in the old days had to work two jobs and go without things like cable to pay the rent while we struggled to make our way in the world. Maybe you should have waited to start a family until you could afford to buy diapers. But alas, that ship has sailed, so please tell your boyfriend to put down the X-box paddles and get a job and help support your family! Give up the cable. Switch to cloth diapers...daddy can wash 'em out between X-Boxing and watching HBO on the high def flat screen TV. Get up an hour earlier and walk those few blocks to work instead of taking a cab. Did ya call that cab on your fancy Iphone 5? Please! Really?!? I'm sick of people thinking they're entitled to a life of luxury. Stop whining about how you should get more so you can work less. Enough already. Get me a burger biotch!
Yah, that's what I'd say...
Damn you ARE miss wright! Where you been all my life girl?
One correction tho..... not "boyfriend".... it's "baby daddy"
I almost busted a gut!... only because I HAD 'baby's daddy' in there originally before proofing and opted for boyfriend instead to try to curb possible perceived racism in my statement. Thanks for the correction, and the compliment.
Yep, when I was young I worked two jobs and did not have a tv, phone. We listened to the radio... |
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Laila Jennings, a 29-year-old sales associate at T.J. Maxx, was eating at a McDonald's in New York City this week and said she hadn't heard of the movement. Still, she said she thinks workers should be paid more. "They work on their feet all day," Jennings said, adding that $12 to $15 an hour seemed fair. As it stands, fast-food workers say they can't live on what they're paid. Shaniqua Davis, 20, lives in the Bronx with her boyfriend, who is unemployed, and their 1-year-old daughter. Davis has worked at a McDonald's a few blocks from her apartment for the past three months, earning $7.25 an hour. Her schedule varies, but she never gets close to 40 hours a week. "Forty? Never. They refuse to let you get to that (many) hours." Her weekly paycheck is $150 or much lower. "One of my paychecks, I only got $71 on there. So I wasn't able to do much with that. My daughter needs stuff, I need to get stuff for my apartment," said Davis, who plans to take part in the strike Thursday. She pays the rent with public assistance but struggles to afford food, diapers, subway and taxi fares, cable TV and other expenses with her paycheck. "It's really hard," she said. "If I didn't have public assistance to help me out, I think I would have been out on the street already with the money I make at McDonald's." What do you say? This is what I say... to Ms Davis... You are 20 yrs old. You have a 1 yr old daughter at home and her daddy, your boyfriend, doesn't work. You get your rent paid for by the state. You have a part time job and are struggling to pay the bills. Welcome to the real world honey. Be thankful taxpayers are putting a roof over your daughter's head for ya. Some of us in the old days had to work two jobs and go without things like cable to pay the rent while we struggled to make our way in the world. Maybe you should have waited to start a family until you could afford to buy diapers. But alas, that ship has sailed, so please tell your boyfriend to put down the X-box paddles and get a job and help support your family! Give up the cable. Switch to cloth diapers...daddy can wash 'em out between X-Boxing and watching HBO on the high def flat screen TV. Get up an hour earlier and walk those few blocks to work instead of taking a cab. Did ya call that cab on your fancy Iphone 5? Please! Really?!? I'm sick of people thinking they're entitled to a life of luxury. Stop whining about how you should get more so you can work less. Enough already. Get me a burger biotch!
Yah, that's what I'd say...
Damn you ARE miss wright! Where you been all my life girl?
One correction tho..... not "boyfriend".... it's "baby daddy"
I almost busted a gut!... only because I HAD 'baby's daddy' in there originally before proofing and opted for boyfriend instead to try to curb possible perceived racism in my statement. Thanks for the correction, and the compliment.
It's baby daddy, her boyfriend probably lives with someone else.... like his wife, or baby momma. I've watched Jerry Springer a couple of times...... yes, continue blaming it on the mothers who are trying to hold it toghether and continue with the ASSumptions about what they could afford when they had the child based upon the situation they find themslf in at some point in that childs 18 years,,,, unbelievable,,,,, coming back to the point, regardless of peoples PERSONAL LIVES, if they are putting in an honest days work, they should get 'honest' pay,, not just scraps to keep them from 'complaining' while people beat them down about having to struggle,,,, |
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Responsible breeding and closed borders.
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breeding is one night in a persons life
childbirth is several hours plenty of other things happen in that 18 year period parents face that contribute to poverty,,, why don't people stop being so simplistic in their 'logic'....? |
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I learned somewhere a term that goes 'Keep It simple, stupid.
That term uncomplcates the hell out of life. Simple solutions. Responsible breeding. Closed borders. Deport illegals. Education that offers life skills. Put the burden of undisciplined kids squarely on the parents shoulders. |
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other than education that offers life skills
the rest of the list has little to do with living wages,,,,, |
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