Again, pandemic unemployment is $1200/month, which is $7.50/hour or $14,400/year.
If employers can't hire staff because they can't compete with those numbers, they need a new business model.
I keep seeing "OMG people just don't want to work" posts about fast food jobs & I just want to know why anyone would think artificially low wages, no benefits, terrible schedules & a high rate of asshole customers would breed job loyalty. Make it make sense
pay your workers a living wage and they will come back. maybe you take less money as the owner. maybe the country fried steak is now $12 instead of $9. i don't know. however you figure it out, pay your workers a living wage.
Parole won’t help you find a job, secure housing, or enroll in college but they will send you back to prison for coming home after 9 PM. It is a system that only knows how to perpetuate failure.
tonight at bedtime, i prayed for my niece. my oldest kid asked what's a "niece;" i used nephew as an example because his aunts always call him nephew. then he asked, "what's the broader category for niece and nephew that doesn't mean boy or girl?" i just found "nibling" and I-
7 Years.
Flint, MI has been without clean water for 7 years.
The effects of the water crisis will be felt for generations.
And the worst part of it all...
Flint is not the only city with toxic water.
It is one of the hundreds of cities across the country with bad water.
Scrolling through Twitter first thing in the morning is a good way to reinvigorate your depression, climate anxiety and general disgust with the global elite 🙃
I don’t want my tax dollars used to fund death squads of poorly trained people who run around in communities emptying their guns into children. Call me a dreamer.