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woo me with science

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3. Welcome to your low-wage, temp work future:
Sat Nov 8, 2014, 09:12 PM
Nov 2014


The jobs that have been created in this "recovery" are (and CONTINUE to be, as your own article shows...) mostly low-pay, often part-time service jobs. The truth is that it was not a recovery. It was a restructuring to benefit the One Percent. What you tout here is not a recovery. It is the construction of a vicious new normal for the 99 percent.


April 28, 2014: Most Of The Jobs Added Since The Recession Pay Low Wages
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/04/28/3431351/recovery-jobs-low-wage/

Recovery Has Created Far More Low-Wage Jobs Than Better-Paid Ones
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/business/economy/recovery-has-created-far-more-low-wage-jobs-than-better-paid-ones.html?_r=0

Low-wage jobs proliferate as middle class ones disappear: job growth patterns since the recession
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/04/low-wage_jobs_proliferate_as_m.html

Low-Wage Jobs Replace Middle-Income Work, Study Finds
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/31/low-wage-jobs_n_1846733.html

Careers Are Dead. Welcome To Your Low-Wage, Temp Work Future
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jmaureenhenderson/2012/08/30/careers-are-dead-welcome-to-your-low-wage-temp-work-



In addition, the TPP that Obama is hell-bent on supporting will DESTROY jobs and cut wages for over 90 percent of American workers:





No, the chocolate ration has not been increased.


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We do all the work, the GOP lies - the M$M capitulates and the voter stays misinformed. Rex Nov 2014 #1
Low wage, crappy part-time jobs continue to replace careers. woo me with science Nov 2014 #2
From my rant.... Lady Freedom Returns Nov 2014 #16
Welcome to your low-wage, temp work future: woo me with science Nov 2014 #3
Once again attacking Obama because he is not perfect, not a perfect recovery.....by the way wages Fred Sanders Nov 2014 #5
+1! Lady Freedom Returns Nov 2014 #17
Sadly, you can't reach a swooner with logic regardless of their party affiliation. PSPS Nov 2014 #6
"Why many aren't celebrating low US unemployment" WorseBeforeBetter Nov 2014 #4
Was this an article from National Review online? It should stay there, this is a pro-liberal site... Fred Sanders Nov 2014 #8
Refute what's in the AP article rather than attempting to deflect... WorseBeforeBetter Nov 2014 #9
Reciting and refuting right wing propaganda on a liberal site is ludicrous......that was my point. Fred Sanders Nov 2014 #11
You got nothing. WorseBeforeBetter Nov 2014 #12
Facts are facts. If you can refute them, go ahead. Otherwise you are just making rhett o rick Nov 2014 #13
Republicans create recessions, Democrats fix them. JaneyVee Nov 2014 #7
Nothing is "fixed". The 1% are getting huge profits. New jobs are at rhett o rick Nov 2014 #15
If you have not notice... Lady Freedom Returns Nov 2014 #18
Yes, but I have also noticed that the President is trying to ramrod Free Trade agreements rhett o rick Nov 2014 #20
I didn't say "fixed", I said "fix". Meaning... JaneyVee Nov 2014 #19
Exactly. You said Democrats fix recessions and clean up the Republican mess. I said rhett o rick Nov 2014 #21
DU rec for pissing off all the right people...nt SidDithers Nov 2014 #10
And that's what you are here for? Pissing off people. rhett o rick Nov 2014 #14
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