Two bedroom apartment, four children. No husband? The SF Chronicle is always short on facts with sob stories such as this. How did she get into this predicament? After having four children, you would think she would pick up a little English. No sense to go on with the obvious.
” Before overtime and taxes, her $16.60 an hour works out to $34,520 a year.”
In the liberal utopia of California Ramos is provided a Section 8 housing subsidy, Covered California medical insurance, EBT food subsidy, WIC program, free education for the kids, free day care at the school. I wish Apple would quit contracting out jobs such as hers, provide benefits and stop pushing off operating costs onto the taxpayer.
They also fail to deal with why the rent is so ridiculously high in San Jose:
Ramos, the Apple janitor, lives down the road in San Jose. She pays $2,300 monthly for a two-bedroom apartment where she and her four children live. Before overtime and taxes, her $16.60 an hour works out to $34,520 a year. Her rent alone is $27,600 a year,