Olive Garden & Red Lobster making workers part-time to avoid providing health insurance

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57. Again, going on a LONG time

20 or 30 years. Middle class wages have not kept pace with the cost of living. My husband makes the same as he did 20 years ago. Offshored several times (IT) and it took years to get up to the salary he was making before. Meanwhile the costs of everything kept going up. The only thing that saved us was that kids grew up and there are now only the 2 of us.

I made $8/hour in 1978 when the minimum wage was about $3/hour an hour? Today working as a special needs TA in public school it was $11/hour. I also have a college degree now. I worked there for 5 years with only one 10 cents an hour increase. After that all salaries were FROZEN INDEFINITELY. Again, this is in the South. I made more money in NY public schools 5 years ago, and got $1/hour raises.

Again, this has been going on for a LONG time. You cannot blame Obama for this. It's ALL wages; private and public.