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In reply to the discussion: "$16.50/hour would be min wage if it had kept pace with the rest of the economy" [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)15. last i heard there were 4 people looking for every job opening. UE = 7.8% and underemployment
(people working less than they want/outside their field) is even higher.
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_&met_y=unemployment_rate&idim=country:US&fdim_y=seasonality:S&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment%20rate
not to mention the stats on labor force participation rate, which show a big decline, and not just among oldsters who may be retiring -- among young people in particular.
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"$16.50/hour would be min wage if it had kept pace with the rest of the economy" [View all]
midnight
Feb 2013
OP
"Thirty million workers are making less today than they did in 1968, adjusted for inflation!”
midnight
Feb 2013
#2
It's pathetic that OP's like this get almost no interest on a supposedly liberal board n/t
Fumesucker
Feb 2013
#3
As someone who makes close to this wage, I'd only be offended if my wage did not increase as well
Nikia
Feb 2013
#6
people need to get over the ego thing and get satifaction from the job not the pay
ThomThom
Feb 2013
#29
yes! all our big local non-profits as well as some of our gov't (the library) are using slave labor
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#11
that's what i said in the first place. homeless shelters get government money & have all along.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#19
or maybe we should just go back to pre-reagan policies so we wouldn't have mass homelessness
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#32
I agree with everything except calling underpaying people a form of 'slavery. You present
pampango
Feb 2013
#23
Again I agree with much of that, but think that using the term 'slave' to describe underpaying
pampango
Feb 2013
#25
I agree with your goal and that calling underpaid labor 'slave labor' helps achieve it.
pampango
Feb 2013
#30
Except that I'm not misusing it. When we talk about labor in China or the Marianna
Cleita
Feb 2013
#31
last i heard there were 4 people looking for every job opening. UE = 7.8% and underemployment
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#15