Many Low-Wage Jobs Seen as Failing to Meet Basic Needs

[DreamSmoker]

Source: New York Times

The Labor Department will release its monthly snapshot of the job market on Friday, and economists expect it to show that the nation’s employers added about 190,000 jobs in March. With an unemployment rate that has been stubbornly stuck near 9 percent, those workers could be considered lucky.

But many of the jobs being added in retail, hospitality and home health care, to name a few categories, are unlikely to pay enough for workers to cover the cost of fundamentals like housing, utilities, food, health care, transportation and, in the case of working parents, child care.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/01/business/economy/01jobs.html?_r=3&smid=tw-nytimesbusiness&seid=auto

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I had to post this because local Radio news is telling us how Unemployment has dropped slightly because more Jobs are available...
What a load of Bull..

[xchrom]

1. Unemployment dropping doesn't necessarily speak

To the quality of jobs or quality of life we are all
Experiencing.

[xmas74]

7. Don't I know that all too well!

I lost my job two years ago in the manufacturing field. Since then I've taken on a low wage job (well under $10 an hour), just to try to pay the bills. My child and I now live with others in order to pay simple living expenses.

When I had my child I could afford to do so. Nowadays, I can't even afford to support myself.

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[inna]

3. kr

[Crazy Dave]

5. Lots of low paying jobs and abandoning the majority of 99'ers...

...is guaranteed to bring unemployment numbers down but it won't get people to to polls in 2012.

[Autumn]

6. How very unreasonable of you.

I suppose you only want jobs that pay a living wage for the basic necessities of life.







:sarcasm:

BTW K/R

[iemitsu]

8. perhaps these jobs are seen as failing to meet the basic needs

workers because they do fail to meet those needs.
we need to re-evaluate how we value labor. and not the way the current republican hacks are trying to. workers need to get a larger slice of the pie and owners a smaller slice.