More than Half of Fast Food Workers Rely on Welfare

Big money said:
Only 13% of fast-food workers make the minimum wage or less.



http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/slow-progress-for-fast-food-workers
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Ok. and the rest make a little bit more. Big woop. Keep deceiving yourself that their lives are great.
 
AssHatZombie said:
Ok. and the rest make a little bit more. Big woop. Keep deceiving yourself that their lives are great.
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Well, they should probably learn a skill that is more difficult than breathing air and flipping a burger, or a robot will take their job and then what will they do?
 
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Dick Puncher EXPRESS said:
Well, they should probably learn a skill that is more difficult than breathing air and flipping a burger, or a robot will take their job and then what will they do?
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That sounds nice, but many people with college degrees still cannot find good jobs, due to globalization zealotry and the outsourcing it causes.
 
AssHatZombie said:
That sounds nice, but many people with college degrees still cannot find good jobs, due to globalization zealotry and the outsourcing it causes.
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Yeah, we're so outsourced that here in MOTHER FUCKING DETROIT skilled trades are in higher demand than 20 years ago.
 
Big money said:
Maybe AHZ has a vested interest in raising wages for fast-food workers.

If so, he should declare it.
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Maybe the entire economy depends on people having enough money to purchase goods and services.

The recent conservative myopia and ignorance about the economic interdependence of all social classes is suprising considering how they pride themselves on being economically literate.
 
AssHatZombie said:
Maybe the entire economy depends on people having enough money to purchase goods and services.
The recent conservative myopia and ignorance about the economic interdependence of all social classes is suprising considering how they pride themselves on being economically literate.
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Explain how the federal government is empowered to selectively and arbitrarily raise the cost of doing business whenever the whim strikes liberals.

And do you or do you not have a vested inteerst in raising fast food workers pay?
 
AssHatZombie said:
Maybe the entire economy depends on people having enough money to purchase goods and services.

The recent conservative myopia and ignorance about the economic interdependence of all social classes is suprising considering how they pride themselves on being economically literate.
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Maybe it also depends on them developing skills that actually demand being paid a higher wage?
 
Big money said:
Explain how the federal government is empowered to selectively and arbitrarily raise the cost of doing business whenever the whim strikes liberals.

And do you or do you not have a vested inteerst in raising fast food workers pay?
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We all have a vested interest in a rising standard of living for all strata of the economy. As for part a of your question, I dont know what the f you're talking about.
 
AssHatZombie said:
Maybe it depends on corporations not sending jobs overseas too. Maybe. You need to stop blaming the victims here.
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OMG, crying that people with low-paying jobs are victims. Get real.

There is no reason that someone of normal mental and physical capabilities cannot develop marketable skills and move up in some organization or business. There are excuses, of course.
 
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