Do we scrap welfare and give the abusers no choice but to get a job? ... First, Welfare pays too much. ... For some the first thought is going to be, "I need to get a job quick." ... They will get jobs in whatever field they can to pay the bills and feed the kids. Even in a blue collar job these people are probably intelligent enough, with enough skills and determination, to get promoted into better paying positions. ...

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Introduction Normally, teachers are paid on a scale that takes into account years on the job and degrees earned. ... Therefore, merit pay would shorten the salary gap between education and other high, paying professions. ... People make career out of jobs they enjoy and not out of their love for money (AFT, 2000). ... With merit pay, politics are saying you aren't doing your job effectively so we are going to pay you to do it right. ... Merit pay sends the wrong message....

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There are many arguments on the topic; ranging from job security to increase in crime, the debates never seem to exhaust. ... It is also highly unlikely that the unemployed and legal residents would take on the rough labor and low-paying jobs that were previously held by the illegals. ... For work you can find easily in America, you have to pay corrupt officials to get a job. ... These statistics show that immigrants are willing to take the lower paying, undesirable jobs that some Americans won't take. ... These farm jobs are the jobs that other Americans would want to work. ...

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Is the outsourcing of American jobs a good or bad idea? ... The skilled workers are still their but so are the intense competition for their services, which causes these workers to become more demanding for pay. ... And giving benefits to those who keep their jobs in the U.S. ... Companies are still outsourcing due to the big pay difference in workers. ... Outsourcing must be stopped to bring back our jobs that belong in America....

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Do we scrap welfare and give the abusers no choice but to get a job? ... The answer lies in how much the program pays to those who are on it. ... First, Welfare pays too much. ... With that, now we have some people earning more money, but more people without jobs, making us no better off than when we started. Welfare also pays to high a benefit to the people on the program. ...

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The population had doubled within 30 years, driving many citizens out of business (farmers being the majority) and into either factory jobs with horrible conditions, or no job at all, resulting in an unemployment rate rising almost as fast as the immigration rate. The level of technology had skyrocketed, leaving even more people without a job while being replaced with machines, yet in the meantime, the employers and factory owners get wealthier as they have less of a need for workers. ... It were those people that obtained jobs and incomes to feed their families, because no matter how bad or h...

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For example, some Americans believe immigrants come to the United States to not pay taxes and take job opportunities away from Americans. ... As for the myth that thousands of job opportunities will be taken away from Americans, many of the children will grow up to become immigrant entrepreneurs creating jobs including for U.S. citizens. ... Immigrants are traveling to America not to be burdens on society rather they are contributing to our country by paying taxes and creating jobs. ... They should be placed on a path to legal citizenship so they can work legally in America with a decent payi...

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People have to have jobs. America has jobs, and Americans should be able to fill those jobs. There is a much different scenario in many places; however, immigrants often get good paying jobs that should have gone to Americans. ... Foreigners should have to pay more taxes than others, definitely not less. Sometimes immigrants will take jobs that no one else wants and that is ok, but it's not ok when high paying jobs go to Pakistanis that barely speak English and might be crazy. ...

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The unskilled immigrate will take whatever job is available at a much lower age that most Americans would receive for the same job. ... The article also indicates that several states that the taxpayers in those states pay an additional tax to cover health care and public schools that are used by the immigrate when the taxes the newcomer pays fall short. Most new immigrates families receive more publicly funded services than they pay in taxes. ... Eventhough immigrates use about the same services as American's, they pay less taxes because they own less property and are in lower paying ...

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In addition, employers" health benefits are tax deductible; however, the connection of health insurance to jobs means that job change or loss often results in loss of health coverage. ... "In years ahead, both job mobility and the number of contingent workers are only likely to increase." ... Finally, I am a firm believer of job tenure. ... Social Security is a "pay-as-you-go" system. No money is actually set aside by the government to pay benefits in the future. ...

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Most students leave college with enormous amounts of debt, graduate working a part time job paying minimum wage, and face other financial crisis. ​... It is true that in today's time, that the majority of jobs require a college education. ... According to 'Education Pays 2010: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society', "The 2008 poverty rate for bachelor's degree holders was 4%, compared to a 12% poverty rate for high school graduates" (Baum, Ma, & Pays, 2010). ... In addition, the majorities of these individuals who graduated college and have these d...

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Also people in certain parts of the country may have limited access to certain types of jobs. ... Males seem to be having trouble finding a job in rural America and it is surely not because of choice. ... Even if the mother or father is able to find a job it is not one that pays good money. Most jobs that pay well enough money for a family to sustain their need is found in an urban area. Wilson's structural theory of poverty states the decline of manufacturing, the loss of jobs to suburbs, and the loss of employment is dramatically reducing the number of inner city jobs that pay enough to...

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These jobs included office work and factory work. ... For women, these were dream jobs. ... In taking clerical positions, women would work fewer hours and make decent pay. ... This made it all right for employers to pay clerical workers, more specifically women clerical workers, less pay than men made. Women were given these jobs as clerical workers and typists, for the most part because it was not thought to be a dominant male job, and because it had not yet been claimed as a male job. ...

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Women who were working at the same time received very little pay compared to men for the same jobs and efforts. Children were forced out of school to work and help support their families as well; for a fraction of an adult's pay, the children were exposed to the same conditions. ... Some of these people began forming guilds for skilled workers to demand more pay and unions where all workers from a specific job type could band together and demand higher wages or shorter hours and such. ... Immigration was seen as the biggest effect on job availability and wages. The more people that ca...

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They are ready to do jobs that some of Americans are not even ready to look at. They do cattle jobs and other poultry and farm jobs that need more of diligent skills. ... (The Worst Jobs). ... They also create jobs for many people,as they come here the demands for goods increase as they buy more goods and they also pay off their taxes. ... Illegal immigrants with no criminal records, and proper tax paying documents could get US citizenship and the ones who have criminal records could be sent back to their home country . ...

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The people were forced to leave their homes and jobs, taking almost nothing with them. ... America was paying for their own weapon creation, but were also supplying their allies, circulating more currency into the economy. ... Formerly facing discrimination in the job market, they found many positions that were unavailable to them. Jobs women could find paid significantly less than men. ... Women loved to finally be able to work, but they were still frustrated at unfair pay. ...

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Wal-Mart is a privately owned company worth billions of dollars, yet they pay their employees minimum wage. ... If you're nearing the 40 hour mark, they'll send you home and you won't be able to come in until the next pay period. ... Yes, employees complain about working but they know that it's so hard to find jobs and provide for their family while the economy is so bad. All of these corporations but none of them are willing to pay you more than minimum wage but are worth so much money. ... It's so hard for women to get a decent job, especially if there's a guy c...

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One concern of the "new immigration" is that these immigrants are taking jobs from the U.S. citizens. ... As more and more immigrants come in with little to no skills in the workforce, they are searching for the low-wage jobs, causing the low wage workers to receive even less in their paychecks. Eventually, it is predicted that federal and state governments will no longer provide welfare to the legal immigrants and non-immigrants, which only means that more workers will be competing for very few low-level jobs. ... Also, because the immigrants are working the low wage jobs, they are paying...

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Many Americans were unemployed and jobs were scarce. ... The luxury items began to advertise with "buy now, pay later," so many Americans became deep in credit debt. America also lent money to European countries, that had trouble paying us back. ... They also put many unemployed workers back to work, giving jobs to over eight million people. ...

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The Democrats want to increase the debt limit so they can pay for Obamacare to exist. ... Most people who live under the poverty level, will eventually be required to buy health insurance or pay the annual penalty fine when it comes around to being tax time. ... It's not fair that millions have lost their jobs and benefits and had their hours cut. ... What you might not understand is that some of these Americans that get this insurance may only be paying 100 dollars or less a month for health care insurance, but absolutely nothing is covered until you pay your deductible. Paying 2500-50...

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Already, economists are on the job. ... Basically, the article states the idea of paying African Americans for something that happened several centuries ago is unjust. ... So why should our government pay well over $200,000 per individual for something that wasn't even illegal during the years it was practiced? ...

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Harwood Industries shut down the sewing department putting 120 people out of jobs. ... " 120 people were left without a job and all the company is really worrying about is the consumer? ... They are driven by the fact that they won't make as much money if they will be paying minimum wage to workers, so they go and pay less than a dollar to someone outside of America. ... El Chacal was demanding $500 apiece, whereas the Cuellos were willing to pay only $350. ... How much more important is a person's life, or a person's job, or a person's education than money? ...

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Single parents with children only receive one person's income; therefore, it is extremely hard for most of these parents to pay for further education or secondary education for their children. Single-parent households also face extreme difficulty trying to support their children pay their mortgages or rent, car payments, health insurance, etc. Most of these families go into deep debt and can't find the means to pay it off, even if they are working more than one job to try and keep afloat. ... Because of this, they may fall behind in school or be discriminated against when it comes t...

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Teen drivers can be an asset to their community by making things more efficient, they do this by helping their families, getting jobs and allowing their parents to stay at work. ... Importantly, teens who drive are more responsible because they will have to hold jobs in order to pay for the costs of auto insurance, gas and maintenance. ... This is one of the effects of distracted driving that has to do with not paying attention to the road in order to focus on something else. ... These accidents can be avoided if the teen follows the rules accordingly by paying good attention. ...

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These families are being laid-off from jobs and end up working in low paying jobs. This has been a problem ever since big corporations become bankrupt and our forced to shut down, causing many Americans with out a job at once. This causes many people the failure to find good jobs, and forces them into the working field of low-income jobs. ... We also need to open up more jobs for the high level of unemployment in major cities. ...

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