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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:11 PM Original message |
Nearly 49% of new jobs are low wage positions |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yup, and many of them will have to resort to food stamps to survive, and will be subjected to the |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
2. Race to the bottom... |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:15 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. It will be an easier slide, since so many of our |
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asjr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:16 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Even worse than that is we will be working |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. If you can't make ends meet, and end up working full time and being homeless, does it |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. And THAT is their definition of "GLOBALIZATION." It was NEVER meant to |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
3. well, shit.... somehow I see that I accidently hit unrec... can some kind soul please rectify that |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Got it |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Thanks! That was really a dumb move.... |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
6. Who wants a Middle-Class "rebounding"? Not globalists, corporatists, or financiers. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:20 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Nor do Dems want poor people to be secure. Same/same. |
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KathieG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
9. Eventually they won't need to outsource jobs to other countries. |
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PA Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
13. Low wages, no health insurance, no pensions. At the same time that efforts are also underway to cut |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:37 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. and food stamps, and low-income housing, heat assistance... |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
14. What a surprise. BTW, the cost of gas and food is going up. |
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Drale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
15. I've been looking for a part time job for a year now |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:54 PM Response to Original message |
17. Our wages and benefits are being patterned after scab labor scale instead of union scale |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 05:13 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Do you know what the hourly wage of someone on SSI works out to? |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:56 PM Response to Original message |
18. But we're supposed to be grateful. |
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Little Star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
19. EXACTLY! |
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Kingofalldems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
20. Repubs love this--more money for rich people |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
21. Before my lay off:nearly $15.00 an hour. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 05:14 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. OF course you can't... not without relying on foodstamps, etc. You know what people on SSI get? |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 05:18 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Before the recession I was lower middle class |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 05:22 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Then I hope we can work together. I am devastated at the lack of concern by the protesting |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 05:27 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. I try. |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 09:52 PM Response to Reply #23 |
34. 4.21?????? |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 09:57 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. I spend all mine on soda and drugs. |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
24. Third world country. Working class and the rich. Hard to survive on ten bucks and hour. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 05:23 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Maybe some day the rest of you will include poor people in the lineup. |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 05:26 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Is working poor better for you? |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 05:31 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. So many of us have said over and over and over..... What about those who are too old, too sick or |
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WorseBeforeBetter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
26. State settles for luring low-wage jobs (North Carolina) |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
29. is there a distinction made of the types of jobs those are? |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
32. There you go again...begrudging them their wealth. |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-26-11 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
36. Sadly, mid-wage and higher-wage aren't really very high either. |
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