The problem is that minimum wage is not nearly enough to live on. The only time I made minimum wage was when I was like 14 years old and I was cool with it then because I was just a young kid with no expenses whatsoever. When you get older its a different story. Even $15 is not enough today to make it on your own at least in new york. A lot of places want 1200-1300 just for one bedroom. After taxes are taken out and other expenses you wont be able to make it on $15 an hour.
My biggest problem is that you have CEO's of companies averaging several thousand dollars an hour pay while their average employee is probably not even making $8 an hour. The difference between the poor and the rich is way to high and imo something needs to be done about it. I'm not saying that a ceo does not deserve his fair share but they certainly dont deserve to make thousands of dollars per hour average while their employees struggle just to put food on the table.
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Last edited by avx81; 2014-06-08 at 12:26 AM.
Good question
I hope people keep this in mind the next time they head to the polls.
Sadly, between the racist dog whistles to their aging base, rampant gerrymandering and widespread voter disenfranchisement the conservatives will have a decent showing no matter what.
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See here in america where I live it is a MUST HAVE THING because places don't have in store applications anymore.
Go apply to Walmart/K-Mart or hell any store anywhere and good chance they tell you to do it online. Also each application normally requires 20-30mins to fill out. Therefor going to the libary is out of the question since you could only do 2 a DAY. People looking for jobs need to fill out as many as they can each day.
The internet is also a good way to find out what place's are hiring and is a lot quicker then calling and walking around.
Once again this is 2014 not 1980 the Internet and Cell Phones are NEEDED. Welcome to the future.
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US has crappy public transportation.
You wait a bus for 30 minutes and it never comes.
My nearest one is walk-able, and I live in a somewhat major city. It wouldn't be a comfortable walk. Not sure I'd enjoy writing cover letters and resumes there.
And I'm kind of LOL about the public coffers thing. Problem: PEOPLE ARE GETTING FREE INTERWEBZ AND CAN PLAY ANGRY BIRDS! Solution: go to place funded from public coffers where you could play flash games if you felt like it.
Heh.
The US' public transport networks are very rarely comprehensive and are often fairly expensive to use regularly. Not to mention that population centers in the US tend to be fairly diffuse compared to other countries which makes the average commute to work or any other destination a bit of a trip.
So no, it's not an adequate solution when there's a much simpler alternative in the form of free internet.
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All these silly arguments, meanwhile we rebuild other countries.
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