But plenty of people do, as evidenced by the 25,000 who showed up to apply for the jobs at the Evergreen Park store.
The complaint was that they didn't want these "slave jobs" by St. Sabina parish in Chicago.
Personally I can't see how people are able to rent an apt, buy food, pay for utilities if they are earning $8 and hour
which probably nets about $6 and hour, however earning say $10 an hour would net about $8.00 per hr. $6 x 40 hours is $240 a week, under $1,000 a month, apartments are about $400 to $800 a month which than places the burden on the taxpayer as the wage earner is than able to receive welfare benefits, section 8 housing, etc. So someone explain to me why this is a benefit to the average taxpayer to applaud big box employers not having to pay little more than minimum wage? Wages are state specific, so someone in Chicago may get $8, someone in Texas may receive $6 etc.
The minimum wage battle equates to either the big box employer pays a living wage OR the taxpayer is subsidizing the big box low-wage earners. What am I missing?
That's been the rub for me, the low-wage earner welfare, section 8 recepients.