I wouldn't say that, it's not even safe downtown during the day LOL. Used to hear all the time about assaults and/or someone being robbed right at the height of the morning commute. Fond memories of delivering equipment in ESL...
St Louis, Soon to be the new "Detroit". Seriously, I was there a few years ago while consulting for Anheusuer Busch and that city was a rat hole. Looks nice in the daytime but don't go out at *********ht unless armed and in a group.
He needs rescuing? What a distressed little damsel he must be. As for Mooniebaby., we're best friends. I think I've mentioned it before. He's always quite pleasant with me. I don't think woolfe or jhhnn have a problem with me... they probably nothing me more than anything
One thing I have been convinced of, they don't want liberal rescue.Roflmouth & chucky sorts have many political allies ranging from the other degens digging for votes to liberals looking for strays to rescue.
One thing I have been convinced of, they don't want liberal rescue.
Of course, but that's never stopped dim samaritans.
He, like so many others, has his own nonstandard orbit around reality.I'm trying to rescue Moonie, kinda. I feel alright about it and he definitely does not want rescuing.
To the topic... I purposely haven't read about this. The article title made me too sad. Therefore I don't know how this happened but I don't see how anyone can live on $7.70 an hour. I don't know how any politician could look at themselves after implementing such a thing. It's outrageous!
You can't live on $0 a day either. What is the incentive to work for $7.70?Of course you can't live on $7.70/hr. Nobody ever claimed it was a livable wage. Not all jobs are worth paying a livable wage. Some unskilled jobs are only worth $7.70/hr
To build an experience foundation from which to launch yourself into the workforce so you can qualify for a better paying job in the future.You can't live on $0 a day either. What is the incentive to work for $7.70?
To build an experience foundation from which to launch yourself into the workforce so you can qualify for a better paying job in the future.
Nobody ever claimed it was a livable wage. Not all jobs are worth paying a livable wage. Some unskilled jobs are only worth $7.70/hr
If only we had schools where they could teach that.To build an experience foundation from which to launch yourself into the workforce so you can qualify for a better paying job in the future.
You can't live on $0 a day either. What is the incentive to work for $7.70?
Nobody ever?
"It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
You might Google that guy if you've never heard of him. I think he is also mentioned in books and stuff.
That quote has nothing to do with my comment that no one ever claimed that $7.70/hr was a livable wage.
Except that's not how the "free market" works. I'm sure it's only a matter of time until China delivers fake "rice" right to your doorstep.Great point and one I agree with. The short answer is that you don't. When employers can't get people to work for seven bucks an hour they'll raise the pay until they can get workers. That's how the free market works. Of course then there are those who don't need a livable wage like my 17 yr old daughter. Others like her working summer jobs are not getting a livable wage but that's OK.
$7.70 = minimum wage
FDR quote topic = minimum wage = livable wage
Except that's not how the "free market" works. I'm sure it's only a matter of time until China delivers fake "rice" right to your doorstep.
1. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the federal minimum wage into law on June 25, 1938 under the brand-new Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), according to the United States Department of Labor.
Roosevelt declared that the bill was meant to give “all our able-bodied working men and women a fair day's pay for a fair day's work." The FLSA came into effect on October 24, 1938.
2. The original federal minimum wage was set at $0.25 per hour (equivalent to $4.18 in 2014 dollars) with a maximum work week of 44 hours. According to Forbes, the minimum wage initially affected approximately 20 percent of the workforce.
They already do that through work partnerships and internships. I would also point out that these programs must comply with all FLSA student clauses which also prohibit work that interferes with students schooling and limits the number of hours that can be worked each school week.Why not just convert the last couple years of high school to employer-sponsored work/training then?
He, like so many others, has his own nonstandard orbit around reality.
To build an experience foundation from which to launch yourself into the workforce so you can qualify for a better paying job in the future.
http://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/minimum-wage-facts/2015/06/02/id/648243/
So FDR thought $4.18/hr was a fair wage.
I think we need a maximum wage of 1 cent an hour for Retardicans and Conservaterrorists. Lets see how you survive on that.