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jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
5. Ironic. You mention Heaven. This report is a writing assignment to create yet another fantsy.
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 06:22 PM
Sep 2015

It's kinda like the Donald Trump view of:


"National Employment Law Project (NELP) found that low-wage industries made up 44% of the jobs added from 2010 through early 2014, while mid-wage industries constituted 26% and higher-wage industries, 30%."


They redefined high-paying as $53,000 a year - that is a joke, and almost cruel. They also altered the dates and where they got the data so they come to a predetermined conclusion for their client.

It's dishonest on it's face, but if one reads https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/Good-Jobs_Tech_Final.pdf the details make it clear that it is not only not measuring the same thing, they pretend to be. Pretty, like one of those cartoon maps that sell advertising. But dishonest.
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"The discrepancy between the two reports largely stems from the mistaken belief that virtually all the jobs created in so-called low-wage industries such as restaurants, retail and home health care pay little, based on their median wage, the Georgetown study says. For example, besides low-paid waiters, cashiers and personal care aides, those sectors also employ well-compensated chefs, accountants and registered nurses."


So a manager at a store, whose husband ran off after she got pregnant, who is working 80 hours a week managing this hell-hole of a Hardees, trying to raise her kid, and crying nearly every paycheck when she has to make choices between rent, food, medical care - which she has now, but it isn't free by any means, is "high income".

You do know that the median price home or condo in San Francisco is now 1 million dollars? Your numbers are ok for 1072, but you are in a different year.

High income is one of the thousands of rentiers and financiers who are making hundreds, even thousands an hour. Or perhaps the politicians they employ to do their bidding. Not the tens of millions of people who are living the new Clintonian redefinition of poverty.

$53,000 is a pathetic joke. So is that piece of propaganda.

Not interested if that's all you got.
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