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Unless he's got kids there's not much welfare to get for a single male. Food stamps at best, about 300 a month.
Odds are he can make more from a combo of gigs and under the table jobs.I can make more from one airport pickup with Uber than 2-3 hours slaving away at TJ Maxx.
The reason he won't work that $12 an hour job is the same reason you won't. Not worth his time.
medicaid or aca subsidies can be worth thousands for a single male
Imo they're probably worse off. Pay hasn't kept up with housing and food costs.
It never will. Any increases in pay will be absorbed by increased costs. This is the same with college tuition. Once anyone was allowed to borrow and get a loan, the schools jacked up tuition. Too many students chasing too few seats.
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I agree. "Minimum Wage" is, or was, considered a starting point, not a life style sustaining income level. In "my day", most of the minimum wage jobs were held by high school students, as a "pocket money" endeavour.....
Yes, like me, at age 14 peeling potatoes at a fish & chip shop for $1.75/hour. That was actually 10 cents over minimum wage then. No way I wanted to do that or any other restaurant work as a career which is why I went to college and graduate school.
Incorrect again. You DO realize, don't you, that businesses do not have feelings? Feelings are the domain of sentient beings.
Yes that is why there are labor laws so businesses can not just treat workers however they want
The value of a job is not subjective; it is objective. We measure it in terms of dollars and cents. Its value is determined by the intersection of supply and demand curves.
So why do different businesses pay different wages for the same job. If it is based on supply and demand should not all similar jobs pay the same?
Do you know how to draw a Supply of Labor/Demand for Labor chart? Do you know what is measured on the "X" and "Y" axes?" Do you know which variable is dependent & which is independent?
You assume all businesses are using supply and demand to determine wages you don’t know that though. Seems like you just heard the words supply and demand and now use it for all your economic views without really know what it is.
Imo they're probably worse off. Pay hasn't kept up with housing and food costs.
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It never will. Any increases in pay will be absorbed by increased costs. This is the same with college tuition. Once anyone was allowed to borrow and get a loan, the schools jacked up tuition. Too many students chasing too few seats.
The 1970s decade of stagflation saw a permanent deterioration in buying power for workers. It now takes two incomes to pay for the lifestyle that one income paid for before the 1970s.
We are repeating that decade of inflation, whereby workers fall permanently behind once again.
That anyone breathing can walk into a McDonalds, grocery store or something similar and get paid at least $18. You can apply in the morning and start working that afternoon. Dairy Queen by me advertises as such. Minimum wage in the state is $14.25. But that's meaningless now..
Maybe where you live, but not everywhere. I don't live in a cheap area and I work a retail job that starts at $15.25 an hour. (I make a bit more since I've been there a year). There are retail and other such jobs in this area that pay less to start. I think WalMart starts at around $14 in this area.
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