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Just so everyone knows food stamps at best is only $200 enough. Not enough to feed an adult off if. They still need either other benefits or a job. A person making $600 a week has much more money than someone on public assistance who lives in an apartment. So in short someone is better off with more money.
" According to the union, three quarters of the staff makes less than $15 per hour."
What a load:
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Ranger lives in Bed-Stuy, and has worked for Cumberland for six years, operating a machine that packages Sugar in the Raw. He currently makes $9.92 an hour, which goes towards his $1,200/month rent, child support for his son, and care for his elderly mother. "Some people are still in denial that this is going to happen," he added. "They've worked 10, 20 years at the company and had hopes of retiring from this company."
We are expected to believe that this guy who uses 3 paychecks a month just to pay his RENT is sad about losing a job in this sweatshop?
These right wing blogs should at least try to make some sense when making up their preposterous stories.
This article is making silly claims. First of all, minimum wage hasn't reached $15/hr in New York yet (not until 2018), so their claims that $15/hr works is just conjecture. Second, minimum wage only increased to $10.25 on January 1st and the article came out on the 11th...only 10 days later. Did they really expect to see an effect (positive or negative) in less than a single pay period? And finally, counting growth in 2015 (when the wage was lower) and planned growth (that hasn't happened yet) can not be attributed to raising the wage.
I read an article in the Los Angeles Times that because the minimum wage is going to $15.00 an hour in California the manufacturing industry is looking to move to other countries and other parts of the United States. There is the possibility of the lost of thousands of jobs.
I read an article in the Los Angeles Times that because the minimum wage is going to $15.00 an hour in California the manufacturing industry is looking to move to other countries and other parts of the United States. There is the possibility of the lost of thousands of jobs.
The same manufacturing jobs that largely already left California?
Oh and the Democratic candidates are now speaking of a $15 an hour federal minimum wage......
I wouldn't be so pessimistic about it. I saw the tablet set-up at a restaurant in JFK at least 2 years ago.
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