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Shandris

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1. I can answer for the 19 poverty-line Americans and their families I know personally...

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Sun Jun 1, 2014, 05:49 PM

Jun 2014

...who all work and work full-time for the opportunity to be paid next to nothing.

This pic is so very true, and that's in an area where CoL is low. It only gets worse the closer to a coast you get from me.

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"For millions of Americans, poverty isn't caused by the inability to work ..." [View all] Scuba Jun 2014 OP

I can answer for the 19 poverty-line Americans and their families I know personally... Shandris Jun 2014 #1

And republicans think minimum wage workers make too much randys1 Jun 2014 #2

Hell, some of them want to do away with minimum wage altogether theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #4

Too true!! hue Jun 2014 #3

Hear, hear! smallcat88 Jun 2014 #5

The harder and nastier the job, the lower the pay gets. And the worse you get treated. Skeeter Barnes Jun 2014 #6

David Graeber explains why the more your job helps others, the less you get paid. Beartracks Jun 2014 #11

What ever happened to that paltry $10.10 that Reid was going to pass? Doctor_J Jun 2014 #7

House Democrats should pull that out and try to force a vote csziggy Jun 2014 #10

Dutifully stolen and shared... Wounded Bear Jun 2014 #8

Working full-time at poverty wages is immoral.... radhika Jun 2014 #9

Sadly, capitalism has dotymed Jun 2014 #20

Exactly . geretogo Jun 2014 #25

Kicked for truth. (nt) Lizzie Poppet Jun 2014 #12

I get so sick of people bitching that they saw someone Tsiyu Jun 2014 #13

And for every women stuck in a pink collar job, there are a couple of kids McCamy Taylor Jun 2014 #14

, blkmusclmachine Jun 2014 #15

Amen. davidthegnome Jun 2014 #16

There are minimum wage jobs where the worker sees MILLIONS worth of transactions pass by daily. Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2014 #17

It is time De Leonist Jun 2014 #18

It's way past time fasttense Jun 2014 #21

+1000 n/t Alkene Jun 2014 #19

I have been saying this for years! Initech Jun 2014 #22

SHE ISN'T TALKING ABOUT MINIMUM WAGE JayhawkSD Jun 2014 #23

Promoting poverty is job #1 for the GOP when a democrat is in office . It's the only way they can geretogo Jun 2014 #24