Some of the pay gap is explained by differences in the jobs men and women hold, the hours they work, and their education and training. ... For example, women are more likely to become teachers, a lower-paying job, while men are more likely to enter higher-paying fields such as engineering. ... " Pinker discusses that the reason women are in low paying feminized jobs is because they are naturally and genetically programmed to go into more artistic and nurturing fields, accepting lower pay because they get to do what they love. ... However, each job in society has some sort of importance, a...

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They have been kicked out of their houses and apartments because they can't afford rent due to their low paying jobs. ... When they do find work, their new jobs pay, on average, thirteen percent less than the job they lost. ... Ann Braden Johnson argues this point in her book Out of Bedlam: The Truth About Deinstitutionalization, "the homeless people who do work tend to be eligible only for non-skilled, low-paying jobs- jobs that often do not pay enough for rent" ("Introduction"). ... Only a small fraction of welfare recipients' new jobs pay above-poverty wages. ... Only a concerted...

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These people believe that by earning a college degree they will be able to get a good paying job and supporting their families to be will be much easier. ... Although education, and a job that pays well to support the family are things we strive for, that same good paying job may be what keeps us from our kids. ... Not only do these students not have jobs in their fields, but they have massive amounts of student loans they have to pay off. ... Any job, however high or low the pay rate can be swept from under your feet in an instant. ... She worked this job, and shortly afterward got another jo...

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People with college degrees were almost always guaranteed a job in their normal fields. ... Likewise, these fields require graduate school to move up the job hierarchy. With so much education, new people in the work force are left with so much debt that they have a hard time paying off. ... They aren't either poor enough for financial aid or rich enough to pay to go the university without being affected financially. ... The system is flawed because they are having to pay so little is completely legal. ...

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When a job wage is cut smaller because an illegal will take the pay cut, this is causing issues for the average American because someone wouldn't want to settle for less pay because of immigrants aiming for the same job. When two people come in for the same job but won't take the price cut. ... The manager interviews both of them, the citizen with an education is a perfect candidate, but wants top pay for his services. The illegal knows basic skills, but was never trained, is willing to take low pay for his services. ... Usually with food stamps, it is required to show identification...

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Also an immigrant pays about 80,000 dollars more in taxes than he or she will earn in the time that they work in America. ... This causes problems in some cases if they are not able to understand what is happening in their job. ... This has caused many employers to put these people in lower paying jobs where they don't have to deal with many people so that the language barrier will not cause as much of a problem. ... With these stats there have been many immigrants who have started to sue their employers for discrimination in giving the good jobs with the higher pay. ... If we start h...

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Having a good education can lead to a high paying job; however it is getting harder for an average U.S citizen to obtain one. ... These are jobs that pay minimum wage or close to it with little to know benefits. ... Since machines replace most jobs that used to require humans, there is less need for a factory to higher and pay more workers. ... These jobs have lower wages than the average manufacturing job, and benefits are poor. The amount of jobs projected for financial services, technology, and other high income jobs stands under 5% (T. ...

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Education levels are not as high in urban areas, which means that the people who are living in these areas are not qualified for the high paying jobs. ... Higher standard of living also attracts immigrants, which makes it hard for people living in urban areas to find good paying jobs, because the immigrants will work for lower wages. ... This results in employers paying their employees lower wages, and giving them the least amount of benefits possible. ... To start to reach a solution to this problem, I think that there should be more opportunities for those who are not able to receive the p...

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Education levels are not as high in urban areas, which means that the people who are living in these areas are not qualified for the high paying jobs. ... Higher standard of living also attracts immigrants, which makes it hard for people living in urban areas to find good paying jobs, because the immigrants will work for lower wages. ... This results in employers paying their employees lower wages, and giving them the least amount of benefits possible. ... To start to reach a solution to this problem, I think that there should be more opportunities for those who are not able to receive the p...

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Welfare, though it can be good, is misused by many low class recipients and is too easily obtained for those merely looking for a way to be lazy and avoid getting a paying job. ... This is why many Americans do not go out and obtain jobs. ... Obtaining a job because of a disability is not impossible. ... Jackson pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 11 to 23 months house arrest, five years' probation, and was ordered to pay full restitution, court costs, and fees. ... It is important to catch the people committing welfare fraud and make them pay back or serve their punishment. ...

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For example, when the Lithuanian man lost his job because someone else had paid for it, he was incredibly homesick and couldn't find a job yet he continued to search and not to give up hope. His hard work and perseverance does eventually pay off, and he finds a good job with better wages, as is shown in the following quote: It [joining the union] has raised my wages. ... In my first job I got $5 a week. With the improvement of his job and wages, also came an improvement in his quality of life. ... On his trip to the United States, he worked on the boat he was taking over to avoi...

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I don't understand why a person would think that a veterinarian's job is easier or some what not as hard as a human doctors. ... Now, depending on what job type or title you want, these courses may or may not apply. ... The pay of doctors also could depend on what state you live in (Sifferlin). ... The lowest will be a little over $50,000 that would apply to small town vets but higher pay would apply to more educated and vets who work with bigger animals. ... Lastly there are shortages in jobs for veterinarians. ...

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Jobs are hard to find as it is, with the lack of a stable education a job in nearly impossible to find and keep. ... Without a job there is almost a guarantee that there will be no chance of survival in achieving anything .The only way to pay for things like schools, cars, homes, or even food is by money. ... Transportation to the job will be difficult and strenuous. ... Unlike a wealthy child a poor one will have to get a couple jobs just to pay for tuition. ... What bothers middle class students is that they are too rich to qualify for financial aid but they don't have the money to pa...

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This was because of the many jobs and chance of a better future during this time of industrialization. ... State laws took voting rights taken away from African Americans, and were required to pay poll taxes, take literacy tests and follow the grandfather clause was in order to vote your grandfather must have been allowed to vote. ... This was known and was to remain a women's job until they started to speak out. The first time women were allowed to try to accomplish something was during WWII when all the soldiers were at was, the women were left here to maintain the jobs of the men. ... ...

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Texas Gulf-Coast Teacher Job Fair. ... "Teachers aides held about 981,000 jobs in 1996. ... America's Fastest Growing Jobs Details on the best jobs at all levels of education and training. 5th ed. ... Of course a high paying, high benefit career will help with the enthusiasm of the worker, but, many people do not consider teaching as having even one of these qualities. ... Those who are currently teachers find this career to be quite enjoyable and rewarding despite the pay. ...

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This means that when manufacturing jobs are moving abroad and products are more popularized, jobs in maintenance and support open. ... Economists assure that the number of jobs sent offshore is a fraction of the overall jobs available in America, and cannot affect the skill balance. ... Most of the jobs that have been sent overseas were in manufacturing; however, the trend started to extend to professional jobs too. ... For middle aged, educated people it is nearly impossible to retrain for another position that will pay their bills. ... The law now not only stimulates U.S. corporations to cre...

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During the growth of the industrial revolution there were three types of servants, the indenture was one who signed contracts generally young people to gain their passageway to the new world, these people then became servants for a certain amount of years to which they were to be work and pay off their debt. ... The white servants would create conflicts between other the country that is head of production, but with they African slaves they did not protest, make a fuss or try to act independently from their designated job. Over all African slaves were desired over Native and European servants b...

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Economically, qualified employees are denied decent jobs, advancement and the ability to maintain and pursue a quality discrimination degrades, abuses, belittles ad destroys one's self-esteem. ... Women face considerable barriers in their access to well paying, higher status jobs (Bergen, 1991). Although employment and pay discrimination is prohibited by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the law did not end the pay discrepancy between men and women. Much of the earnings gap is the result of occupational differences, gender segregation, and women's tendency to interrupt their em...

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They had no jobs, no food and rents were on the rise. Women, who were fortunate to have jobs, lost them in a declining linen industry. ... Some wealthier landlords were benevolent enough to pay for their tenants to emigrate to America and other English speaking countries. Many Irish boarded cotton ships headed for America and while a few were fortunate enough to pay for their own passages. ... When trying to find jobs the Irish were faced with quite a lot of discrimination. ...

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IT IS BEST FOR COUPLES TO ARRANGE THEIR WORK LIFE SO ONE HAS A CAREER AND THE OTHER PERSON HAS A JOB. ... One of the most important reasons why women are primary the main ones to seek for a job or just stay at home instead of a career job is because they bear primary responsibility for home and family care. ... A part-time job allows mothers to basically get the best of both worlds. ... This alters somewhat in having the woman having a job also, but when the woman has a job, it keeps the marriage stable and happier than if she just sat at home while the kids were at school. ... Fami...

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Race can keep you from being treated with respect, keep you from getting a job or even keep you from renting a house. ... Almost every one of them worked at the mill from the day they were old enough until the day they died without any hope of ever receiving higher pay than people just starting out. ... Not once or twice but many times But I"m a Hunky and they don't give good jobs to Hunkies." ... It had nothing to do with fooling around or not knowing how to do your job. ... Higher pay, less hours and a safer work environment would have been top priority on the agenda of any labor un...

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America has plenty of resources and wealth to fix this inequality gap and eliminate poverty, there is still other countries doing a better job of reducing it. ... Life for the middle class continues to be a struggle because the wages aren't enough to raise a family and pay the bills. ... People who are fortunate to have jobs still suffer due to the strong downward pressure on wages. ... As seen in schools, many rich kids make it to graduation with bad grades and still end up getting a high paid job unlike poor kids who got good grades in college. ... Of course the 1 percent doesn't w...

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One main reason why reparations should not be paid is because there are too many questions that would need to be answered before a law to pay reparations could be passed. ... A law to pay reparations would have to state whether the people who will receive the reparations must be descents of slaves or blacks residing in America. ... Not every non-black American should have to pay reparations for slavery. ... In Campustimes.org, Michael He writes, "not only is a majority of Caucasians not responsible for slavery, but, at the very least, the descendants of the 3,000 African-Americans who owned...

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Paying bills for their house, car and credit is an arduous task for them. ... Normal people have to work and pay the tax for the country. ... They will begin to look for jobs in order to earn money for keeping their house and making life more comfortable.... By receiving food stamps, homeless people are allowed to buy food without paying their own money. It is because the money that used to pay for the food comes from those food stamps. ...

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Those slaves were strong people who were able to complete the physical jobs the colonizers would not do, like being servants or working in crops. ... Most of them work in crops or as servants and Americans take advantage from them by paying them lower wages and making them work under extreme conditions. ... We know we need them to do the jobs we would not do, but we do not recognize them as part of our country. ... A living example is Disney, who pays 50 cents for producing a shirt in South America, and sells it for 20 dollars in the United States. ... We fear that immigrants will take our pla...

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