Job Openings in the U.S. Climbed in May as Hiring Picked Up

[heaven05]

38. hmmm

a livable wage is one where an average family, 2parents, two kids? can have a decent roof over their head, decent meals every day, can pay the usual utilities ect and even enjoy time out together once a month or so. Decent car, able to put fuel in it. I was making 25.00 an hour before I retired. In that economy that was decent. The prices keep going up and/or fluctuating. Utility companies charge an arm and a leg for their services. Coming from a family that in growing up sometimes had to depend on government food supplements, where I ended my working career was good. Decent today? The same wage per hour or 50,000 a year salaried as mentioned above or a little more for a family of four. My family was my wife and my step daughter. We made due. Yeah, IT and telecom are good paying jobs, but realistically a majority of people in this society now are in the lower paying jobs like, 7-11, meijers, target, walmart, gas stations. Mall type jobs, food service industry. A lot of older people working in McDonalds ect now. Never saw that before and they do not pay that well. Car factories, post office jobs pay well, but they are not doing a lot of hiring. I was blue collar, with a college education. Most people are not college grads. Some people here want to lament my negativity about america's businesses not offering it's citizens a livable wage but corporate mentality now, I repeat is slave wage and no health care, not livable wage. Control of the populace is much easier that way. Corporations own the world and have the control to keep us groveling. And it's getting worse. No rose colored glasses here, like some of the arrogant sheeple on here believing the lies of better job/wage outlook, it's just not true. But I don't have to prove anything to anyone, time will bear me out. It will only get worse, not better with the slave wages offered to a majority of current american workers. I hope I didn't belabor the point and that I answered your question.