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wordpix

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68. totally agree, and this extends to poverty calculations, too
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 10:42 PM
Oct 2015

for things like Medicaid, SNAP, etc. My state of CT has a Medicaid threshold of something like $13K/year, which you can't live on in CT. Maybe that works for _____affordable state, but not here. So if you make $14K, you still can't afford to live here but you're too "wealthy" to get Medicaid, so you go to O-care if your employer doesn't cover you. And then you've got the premiums, copays, etc. but you can't afford decent food or housing. And it's COLD here in winter.

Just keep the poor getting poorer, you rich asshat repukes, and find out what happens once the poor understand why it is this way. Go, Bernie!

$16 / hr for a manger? Egnever Oct 2015 #1
In SF it should be at least double...nt joeybee12 Oct 2015 #45
Part-time BuelahWitch Oct 2015 #57
Short version: "We can't find good workers at shit wages! Waaaahhhh!!!" hatrack Oct 2015 #2
Bingo Populist_Prole Oct 2015 #74
I expect there will be more of this all around the country as rental and housing prices increase in smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #3
It's in most places around the country already davidn3600 Oct 2015 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author BigDemVoter Oct 2015 #4
Makes sense madville Oct 2015 #5
Very important issue and dilemma, self inflicted by gross income inequality. The gentrification appalachiablue Oct 2015 #6
It's happening quickly Texasgal Oct 2015 #8
I believe it. The cities I mentioned are rapidly undergoing change in the last 5-15+ years and appalachiablue Oct 2015 #11
Oh. That's mine! KamaAina Oct 2015 #47
Excellent KamaAina, glad you spoke up! A very troubling issue, American Rural Poverty appalachiablue Oct 2015 #66
You know it. I live near BS Springs, and my place is worth 550k, but the taxes... Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #17
I grew up in Central Austin Texasgal Oct 2015 #22
Vancouver, London, Dubai, San Francisco and a few other places Warpy Oct 2015 #40
The difference re: NYC is that there are cheaper Burroughs with good mass transit for commutes stevenleser Oct 2015 #62
Lived in the Bronx for 40+ years. Rents are getting critical there too... GOLGO 13 Oct 2015 #71
Yes. mmonk Oct 2015 #75
San Francisco is a gated community. geek tragedy Oct 2015 #7
That wouldn't address the lack of affordable housing mythology Oct 2015 #78
who's going to build the affordable housing? nt geek tragedy Oct 2015 #79
Better get those robots up to speed. Downwinder Oct 2015 #9
A problem with a national minimum wage dreamnightwind Oct 2015 #10
Great Idea! Kilgore Oct 2015 #14
It seems obvious. moondust Oct 2015 #15
I hadn't seen MIT's living wage calculator dreamnightwind Oct 2015 #28
Similar to a maximum wage, moondust Oct 2015 #29
A good idea, what about foundations and the like? dreamnightwind Oct 2015 #32
totally agree, and this extends to poverty calculations, too wordpix Oct 2015 #68
Yes, this isn't rocket science dreamnightwind Oct 2015 #73
Aww... Rex Oct 2015 #13
If you cannot pay a living wage by the standards/ hifiguy Oct 2015 #16
This is how wages go up. Nye Bevan Oct 2015 #18
And the people who've been dutifully working for years get bypassed by the new hires. NBachers Oct 2015 #30
And such people should have no trouble finding new jobs that pay them their fair market value (nt) Nye Bevan Oct 2015 #42
It is fun to pretend as such. LanternWaste Oct 2015 #46
Isn't this thread about employers being desperate to hire people? (nt) Nye Bevan Oct 2015 #51
Build. Taller. Buildings. Recursion Oct 2015 #19
Yeah, 500 square foot condos starting at $1m will solve all SF's housing woes Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2015 #26
"The market" didn't get us here; nostalgia for Victorian architecture did Recursion Oct 2015 #27
"the market" wants to build pied-a-terres for the super-wealthy and Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2015 #31
"The market" complained for years. Igel Oct 2015 #41
And would an outcome like that in New York, London, Toronto or Vancouver be desireable? Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2015 #44
Brownstones? KamaAina Oct 2015 #48
Yeah, I couldn't remember the bay area word for "rowhouse" (nt) Recursion Oct 2015 #60
Townhouse? KamaAina Oct 2015 #63
You know that taller buildings in this city creates more wind, right? threethirteen Oct 2015 #35
OK, then high rents are there to stay for a while Recursion Oct 2015 #38
BART has ordered its "Fleet of the Future" KamaAina Oct 2015 #50
Why are there so many posts that mention raising the wages, and NONE truedelphi Oct 2015 #20
It's not the worker who is the beneficiary of food stamps or AFDC; it's hedgehog Oct 2015 #23
Very good point and a foul reality that's rapidly getting worse in metro areas. appalachiablue Oct 2015 #64
I won't even mention my joint income with spouse truedelphi Oct 2015 #76
simple - hire the homeless and street people nt msongs Oct 2015 #21
The only people I know who still live in SF... Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2015 #24
I live in a resort community.. lot's of empty second homes mountain grammy Oct 2015 #25
Same here, and the employers are screaming for (low wage) workers Hydra Oct 2015 #34
One has to wondering jamzrockz Oct 2015 #33
And where were they when all those people that would have filled those position were being evicted? threethirteen Oct 2015 #36
This is a furniture store, so they were probably cheering the approach of another DINK couple Recursion Oct 2015 #39
It is a used furniture store next to a used clothing store. Luminous Animal Oct 2015 #55
Thank you for bringing up the pathetic SF public transportation system. Recursion spiderpig Oct 2015 #58
You're not desperate enough to PAY THEM, McCarley Warpy Oct 2015 #37
Poor widdle assholes can't find help LuvNewcastle Oct 2015 #43
I don't think the small business owners here brentspeak Oct 2015 #56
as one who's been both employer in a big city and employee wordpix Oct 2015 #69
About time that you realize that you cannot turn a whole jwirr Oct 2015 #49
Xposted to California group KamaAina Oct 2015 #52
Hey, good news, everybody! In a few decades this won't matter because SF Arugula Latte Oct 2015 #53
Not all of it KamaAina Oct 2015 #59
925 ft. is a ohheckyeah Oct 2015 #72
Oh who could have foreseen that? Starry Messenger Oct 2015 #54
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #61
Good. Fuck them!... TeeYiYi Oct 2015 #65
Seems like when I left Santa Barbara yuiyoshida Oct 2015 #70
same with DC soon wordpix Oct 2015 #67
Supply and demand? Victor_c3 Oct 2015 #77
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