(11-04-2020, 01:06 PM)EricC85 Wrote:

(11-04-2020, 12:47 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: It’s so unfair how the left has sold this younger generation on the minimum wage being a living wage. It was never intended for that. 

https://www.news4jax.com/vote-2020/2020/...4b9d93da42

Now N4J is profiling a woman who has 5 (Five) kids aged 1 to 14 and works fast food counters. She’s happy about the increase but the cold hard reality of it is, as commented below, she will be replaced by a kiosk. 

Better learn to code, girl, and keep your legs closed.

My heart goes out to people like her trying to raise a family on a fast food salary. If we really want to help people like her we’d focus on programs getting them some kind of marketable skill and off the entry level job. She doesn’t realize as her pay increases the cost of living is going to out pace her increases and she’s going to be far worse off in 5 years than today if she doesn’t change anything.

Yeah I have sympathy for a lot people in jobs like this. In a perfect world no one would work these jobs except for like teens/college kids or people who just wanted/needed to make a little money. (:I worked these types of jobs in High school and some in college).
 
Definitely not a grown person with five kids. This is one big reason why the loss of manufacturing jobs stink so much. They could provide people i cluding this lady with a livable wage, plus good benefits ,etc. Unfortunately, we've lost a lot of those jobs. And in a lot of areas (particularly small towns)
most of the work is restaurants/service jobs that don't pay well and can be dead end.

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