low paying jobs created during recovery
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
United States
September 3, 2012 6:48am CST
I saw this on the news this morning and frankly I'm not surprised. They mentioend how the majority of the new jobs and the jobs out there are low paying jobs. Now I don't know about the majority of you but this is no surprise!!! $13.83 or less/hour... sadly I'm on the "less" end of things having to start over at minimum wage 4 yrs ago. They mentioned the majority of the job losses were those that paid between $14-21/hour. I'm sure this is accurate as businesses continue to cut benifits and or looking for cheaper labor to replace those positions (if they replace them). But can you cansider it a "recovery" when the jobs are low paying and the cost of living continues to rise. If our economy is based on consumer purchases, if they earn less they have to spend less or am I looking at that wrong? http://www.kctv5.com/story/19437969/low-paying-job-creation-more-likely-in-economic-recovery
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@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
3 Sep 12
No you are not wrong but the problem seems to get worse. Firstly, it is not the USA alone that is suffering as countries in Europe are on the verge of collapsing. People are rioring all over the world. The economy of the world is at an all time low. I have been six months in the UK and I have never seen such rampant unemployment. People are losing their homes etc. It is really bad.
It is going to get worse as the drought in the US and elsewhere will send the price of grain rocketing so food price will rise. In the UK the summer rains have desgtroyed he crops so the same thing wll be happening.
You are right in your theory as we shold be spending to help the economy but what can we do? We have to survive. Therefore, take and keep the low paying job and get out of any debt tat yhou may or may not have. We have to cut down to survive and try to grow what we can to eat - even of it is in a container. I will be doing more of this when I reach home.
I think that this struggle is going to last for more years.
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
3 Sep 12
So that's where you've been Cynthie!!!
Yes I fear what grain prices and produce prices will be. Gas prices are frightening enough. And you can't spend if you don't make a good wage. Yes people are still loosing jobs and loosing homes... the rate isn't as high as it was but it's still happening. Many of the new jobs not only are they low paying but they are also only part time wich means no benifits to employees. Which then makes me wonder about people being penalized for not having health insurance with this Obamacare because employers are making sure the majority of their employees don't qualify for insurance with them being part time.
@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
3 Sep 12
I didn't realise that you didn't know that I have been in the U.K. I came back home to have surgery. I have had two procedures the last one being a triple by pass and then I had masses of complications.
I am so distressed to read that so many mylot friends do not have health insurance. Your President did try but the people were against him. I believe that every citizen is entitled to health care and I am so angry that employers in the US would cheat their staff in this way.
I am for private enterprise but I also believe that people who genuinly cannot afford health care should get it free. A country is judged by how they treat their people. I didn't get it free in the UK as I have been away so long but am once again in the system and I have got new glasses and almost free dental care plus the services of a Dr. and free medication. Sorry - I have strong views when it comes to health care of a nation no matter where in the world. My parttime job - whoich I still have - allows me a full tank of gas a week so as yu can imagine this will mewan so much to me when I return at the end of the month.
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@babyEj (1522)
• Philippines
3 Sep 12
It's actually true , this is one of many sacrifices that seems a remedy of every country whose suffering from recession. I have been working more or less 6 years but there was a little salary increase in our city yet still small compared to the smallest salary of advance country.
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
3 Sep 12
My husband has been on the job for over 20 years! He has only seen a couple of raises since 9/11 and as of recently he hasn't had a raise in a few years not even a cent. No raises and yet costs keep going up and the company can find money to continually expand.
Salaries of course vary between countries and regions as cost of living is different as well as rate of exchange.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
7 Sep 12
Unfortunately that is true for most countries, the very high paying jobs are for the select few that have the training and the regular worker ends up with very low paying jobs.
@jillhill (37353)
• United States
3 Sep 12
Not only that but the jobs were for just a certain portion of the work force...ex. construction workers...alot of the jobs had to do with building bridges etc. It left alot of people without the opportunity to have a job....just a certain few!
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@ARIES1973 (11944)
• Legaspi, Philippines
3 Sep 12
I consider this amount $13 as high aleady especially if it will be spent on our place. But if the prices of commodities are actually high and your earnings is not enough, then that will really be a problem. Anyway, if you said that you are on a recovery period, I think it is better than having no job at all.
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
3 Sep 12
Sadly that is true a job is better than no job. However, like you mentioned with prices high and wages low people therefore people cannot spend to keep other industries going.
@cutepenguin (6430)
• Canada
4 Sep 12
It's going to take a long time for everything to fully recover, and it's hardest, obviously, at the beginning. The problem is that there are only the lower paying jobs being created at a time when food prices are going up. The thing is, a lot of the situations that caused these problems happened a while ago and it took time to make the problem get this bad, it's going to take time to properly fix it.
In the meantime, we have to suffer.
@scorpiobabes (7225)
• United States
3 Sep 12
I went through the humiliation of first being laid off in 2005 as a full time graphic artist, with benefits, to then working part time and owning my own business, to having a minimum wage, part-job in 2008. I could no longer afford to make even the most basic purchases, and began to stay home a lot more. I was no longer contributing to the economy. I didn't even qualify for President Bush's "economic stimulus" funds! I'm currently unemployed again but cannot collect because I was a contractor that wasn't contributing taxes for the unemployment fund. We are scraping by, barely able to pay our bills, so obviously there is no way that we can help contribute to the economic recovery at this time. It's quite frustrating to not be able to go shopping for anything but the basics each month.
@AmbiePam (120752)
• United States
3 Sep 12
Shoot, even ten dollars an hour sounds good. I found out the woman who watches my mother makes eight bucks an hour. What a horrible rate of pay for a job that might make you lose your own mind ('cause watching dementia ridden people will do that to ya).
@natliegleb (5173)
• India
3 Sep 12
that is really hard to hear,but at those times i think people were in a dire need to get a job ,atleast like something is better than nothing,that would have chosen it,what you are saying is entirely correct for sure,they need to survive
