16 an hour is absolutely not enough to live onOk is that bad? Those higher paying jobs are not being lost, and I know around me I have seen a shit load of 'help wanted' signs at local shops. Hell the Kroger is now offering $16 an hour. Pre-pandemic I am pretty sure they were about $10.
I'll double check real quick to just make sure your not just tossing that out there because it for sure doesn't say that in the AP article I posted and I havnt read the jobs report to know if it isn't just a make me chase my tail kind of thing.
Our highway system and infrastructure for the burbs to even exist in the first place would strongly disagree with this.
just because someone is looking for work doesnt mean that its worth it depending where you live
everyone is hiring because they dont fucking pay enough to afford anything except when you have to have 4 fucking roommates
Adding jobs looks good on paper but the reality is different.
You have to realize your reality isnt everyone's reality this where you have to start understanding that our new work force generation cannot survive 40+ hours a week at kroger for 16 fucking dollars an hour
some of us are very privileged (im assuming you are one of them) who has been in the workforce gotten pay raises youre at a place of employment where you can survive, when we were younger we could survive on the shitty 10 dollars an hour with a shitty apartment , but now a days our new workforce generation cant a studio apartment where i live is almost 2000+ per month, a ROOM for rent is 1800 here.
dont forget the cost to drive to work, buy food, insurance, health insurance, internet, added costs of all ammenties for apartments
Im assuming you have no idea what its like to rent now a days but its pretty bad they tack on extras for everything upon your base rent, so base rent is maybe 2000 but than you have an additional 200-300 per month in amenities, smart locks, packages and community fees you literally cannot get out of
Our new work force is mostly well educated kids applying for hundreds of jobs and get turned down , all you need to do is expand your mind and reality and realize people are actually struggling despite what it shows on paper, go on to instagram there are people on there showing the break down costs of many things with cited sources, kids who have applied ot hundreds of jobs with no call backs etc
People who get denied at mcdonalds, kroger etc because their educational background is too high so the companies dont wanna risk employing them because they will leave for better pay
you seem to continually think everything is great and no ones struggling
You can be a dem, and realize its fucking shit out here for some people , you seem to have lost that somewhere , isnt that what being liberal is about?
understanding others? Being at your core a better person and realizing its not just what is on paper and being there for our fellow humans who share space with us on this planet earth?