Posted on 09/02/2012 4:57:55 PM PDT by Innovative
While a majority of jobs lost during the downturn were in the middle range of wages, a majority of those added during the recovery have been low paying, according to a new report from the National Employment Law Project.
"The overarching message here is we don't just have a jobs deficit; we have a 'good jobs' deficit," said Annette Bernhardt, the report's author and a policy co-director at the National Employment Law Project, a liberal research and advocacy group.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I’m with you. I’ve got two good friends that are top flight engineers. There is no work. The jobs that are available are flipping burgers or part time jobs at Wal-Mart.
It's also the reason why there are so many multigenerational families now living in the same home, as they pool their resources to survive.
I wonder why they’re content to let other people have the babies
Content?
Do you have any idea what it cost to have babies without adequate insurance and secure good paying jobs?
Illegals by the millions are charging you and me to have endless babies, obtain food stamps, welfare etc. Would you care to see some stats from so-call red states like Texas? Let me know.
You are disconnected from reality.
Do you have any idea what it costs in today's America to raise a family, buy a home, pay rent, pay insurance, utilities, have children, families or just fill the GD gas tank?
As millions of Americans compete with endless low wage immigration from every direction. This is national suicide considering tens of millions of Americans are unemployed or underemployed.
Are you stupid or just play the stupid role?
How in tarnation is a 24 year old male working at Home Depot or in some cubicle going to have babies and raise a family on 11 or so bucks an hour with little or absolutely no heath insurance? How would he even buy a home, pay rent, feed provide for having babies and raising kids?
Our standard of living, economy, a mountain of debt, compounded lawless borders and endless waves of low wage immigration from all over the planet, millions of which get every freebie, handout imaginable.
You obviously don't get it. Or you're living in some Pollyanna past.
In a way, that's a good thing....families should stay together.
An engineer looking for work is probably pricing themself out of the job market. You can blame that on the H1B’s. You’re blaming WalMart though and people buying there. Stay on subject
I agree. As long as everyone pulls their own weight.
Let's set aside those who didn't have opportunities or lacked the capacity for more due to health or other reasons.
I know college educated people, in technical fields not 'the arts', who are in low paying jobs or looking for low paying jobs just to have an income.
One was illegally fired due to age; he was an electrical engineer in a supervisory role and now listens to headhunters say, "I believe my client is looking for someone younger."
Another is young, fresh from his education but hasn't field experience yet thanks to the Obama economy.
Another became a full-time caregiver when his family needed him.
Yes! It's all their fault. They deserve to suffer, to lose their homes, to eat off the street like stray dogs. Maybe the evil, inhumane conservative stereotype the Democrats put out really does exist in the flesh.
To those "I got mine" Freepers who troll topics playing the blame game on Americans who have been forced to turn to assistance programs, can't find work, are underemployed or have been wiped out by the economic meltdown I say, "HIRE!"
And, surprise, surprise, not a single one of them steps up.
Many Americans don't build a family structure that can support its members if they fall on hard times, get ill or simply grow old. It's something we could do better as a people and it would make us more productive and better position the young before they start families.
WalMart employs over a million American workers and provides prices that can't be met by products produced by union shops. Don't blame WalMart for your beefs - it goes a lot deeper than that. The words "Buy American" should have the addendum "Pay More - a message from your friendly union shop".
I don't have any illusions about the problem. You are right that it goes much deeper. Your point about it being an issue between Wal-Mart and unions, though, is very simplistic and wildly uninformed.
Again, you are correct the issue goes much deeper. Let's take that as a opener and try applying some critical thinking.
I appreciate the caution to stay on subject. Could not agree with you more. I think I was replying to someone else that brought up the engineer out of work side conversation.
There is a long list of U.S. industries that will disagree with that slogan.
balderacious drivel
what’s good for Walmart is good for America
Deserve to suffer? No, I didn’t say that. I don’t wish suffering on anyone. But did they make their bed? Yes, they did, and now they lie in it. Can’t get hired? Hustle and open a business. I have a five year degree in architecture. It proved to be useless. My firm collapsed when everyone stopped building. I hustled, bought a food truck, and now own three restaurants. I could be working some lowly job and complaining about obama, like many people do. Obama sucks, but we have had bad and great Presidents in the past, but hustle knows no political affiliation. People got rich under Reagan, and some even got rich under carter. I got rich under Bush and obama, and I give neither of them an ounce of credit.
“Do you have any idea what it costs in today’s America to raise a family, buy a home, pay rent, pay insurance, utilities, have children, families or just fill the GD gas tank?”
I do all of those things, and I struggle, but there is no “GD” way I would put off having a family when it is so obvious that with sacrifice it can be done. I’ve worked low-paying jobs (and probably will again), and started my family with a job that wasn’t great; maybe it is faith. My children certainly don’t have the high expectations that many of their peers do.
Terms not used by the MSM since Jan 09:
McJobs
Recovery for Wall $treet but not Main Street
Homeless problem
You won't get me to agree with that one.
Bull chet.
How do ya make do on 11 or so bucks an hour having 2 or 4 kids delivered at the local hospital with zip insurance? Who's paying the huge bill for all this slick? Maybe have the babies delivered in the back room, the way they did it 95 years ago?
Not everyone is able or wants to live in some $395. a month single wide trailer eating Velveeta all month long with 4 under clothed barefoot kids they can't afford. Or some ghetto rental in downtown Detroit gangland. You'd have to be an idiot to do that, or live like they do in Mexico. How ignorant are you?
A 25 year old non-insured males working in cubicle world or Home Depot aren't having babies delivered at the hospital, which cost tens of thousands each, nor are they buying homes or refrigerators. They don't have the money! Gezzz. What do you not get about this slick?
Cripes, these young people can hardly fill their gas GD tanks.
Why do ya think so many are living in homes nowadays in a multi-generational environment? Millions of these young people can't even afford their own places. Gezzz..You live in some isolated cave?
Pull your head out of the Pollyanna past..
OK, don’t breed. That’s a great solution; thank you for sharing it.
Breeding of humans only adds to global warming and futher threatens the other living species on this planet (and yes there is a big sarcasm tag on that one).
Jokes aside, if you can't afford kids - as you are relying on minimum wages jobs - they you should wait.
I understand the idea of waiting. When I was younger (and the eonomy was better) I remember friends had set the bar so high for what they were waiting for (they were “risk-averse”, and practically wanted their houses paid off before they would have kids). I also know people who waited too long, and when they were ready their bodies weren’t (a very sad thing). I wouldn’t suggest a course of action for anyone in particular on the question; I just think the consequences of either path can’t be ignored.
FRegards.
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