Just to get payed a low wage people have to clean houses on their knees and crawl like animals to make a living. ... As Ehrenreich searches for jobs she encounters many jobs that do not pay enough to sustain her. ... She finds many jobs that pay a very low price and those jobs do are not enough to sustain one person. ... They can not afford the rent of an apartment alone because they are not payed enough so they have to live with other people. ... In order to survive the people living in one household have to work in multiple jobs just to pay rent and buy food.The fact is that the money is no...

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On the other hand, the people who obtain these jobs dislike low-wage work, yet they know without these jobs they would have no income and could possibly be living on the streets. ... Because of that, they can not obtain high paying jobs that require strong knowledge in a particular field. ... Without education, a better job is impossible so around the vicious cycle we go. A solution to this would be to simply pay them more; to raise the minimum wage. ... This makes harder for people to climb the corporate ladder in low-paying jobs. ...

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Jobs that are rewarded with higher pay are the ones with the rarest skills. ... They also believe that the less you get paid the less important your job it. ... They do not get paid as much as a heart surgeon or pediatric surgeon, but their job is still extremely important. ... Symbolic interactionist believe that by blaming the problem on the victim, as a society we are not looking at the whole picture like lack of good jobs, low pay, and pre-existing inequalities. ... I also strongly believe that the important jobs are not always the high paying jobs, teachers, soldiers, police officers, t...

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Children work to help their families, to pay for school and survive. ... Parents of child workers are often unemployed or underemployed, desperate for a secure job and income. Yet it is often their children who are offered jobs, because children are cheaper and easier to exploit. ... Even if there is a school, and a poor family cannot afford to pay the fees for few years, children often drop out. ... School should be free for those who ...

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Children work to help their families, to pay for school and survive. ... Parents of child workers are often unemployed or underemployed, desperate for a secure job and income. Yet it is often their children who are offered jobs, because children are cheaper and easier to exploit. ... Even if there is a school, and a poor family cannot afford to pay the fees for few years, children often drop out. ... School should be free for those who ...

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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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It does not stop businesses from paying workers a higher wage. ... They will do the minimum required to keep the job until they can find a better one. ... Go inside and the employees always look clean professional and happy doing their jobs. ... Poor workers should not have to work two and three jobs to make ends meet. One job should pay enough not only to keep the worker above the poverty level but should provide a reasonable standard of living. ...

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A couple of examples that lead to the rise in homelessness are high cost of living and low wage jobs, often forcing many people to choose between paying their bills and feeding their families. ... Combinations of high cost of living, low wage jobs and high unemployment rates contribute to the rise in homelessness. ... Cost of living across the US is steadily rising but the wages of jobs are not rising to meet the demands. More than thirty million men and women in this country work in jobs that pay poverty wages and provide little healthcare if any at all. Low wage jobs do not offer flexibili...

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Many of today's technological advances have eliminated wide range of jobs in the industry. ... A rapid change in technology means that there are machines that can replace human's jobs. ... The EITC designed to give family with one adult working with a low-paying job that has two children gets 40 percent increase in income from refundable federal tax credit. ... As we can see many workers would loose their jobs because of machines replacement. ... These workers would either get replaced by machines or they people would end up working at low-paying jobs. ...

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Machines started to do the work of the producers, at twice the speed and without any pay. ... Therefore, many people lost their jobs and fell into extreme poverty. ... The production workers, who have lost their jobs, are moving in on personal care service jobs. Now that our production workers and personal care workers are fighting for the same jobs, the owners pay them less. The owners know that it does not matter if they pay them enough, because someone down the chain will always be willing to do that job. ...

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Both of the sinking boats resembles the lower class of society struggling with low pay, low benefits, and the intense competition between each other and machinery. The routine worker's job comprises of doing the same process over and over for at most minimum wage and the in person server's job consists of managing the routine workers for a little over the minimum wage. ... They are living the "American Dream " receiving high pay and prestigious company benefits. ... The work done for the job is so rigorous it is also known as knowledge work. ... Reich does an excellent job in making...

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Until that day I had no idea that some people actually choose to give up their homes and jobs and not have any responsibility in life but to get through the day. ... So, apparently he had more than enough to spend any way he wanted to, since he didn't have to pay rent, electricity or food for that matter. ... If affordable housing, secure jobs, medical treatment and general support could be provided to each individual, people would not end up on the streets. ... Another fact is that homeless people reported that their major needs are for help finding a job and financial help to pay for ho...

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In the peace settlement, it was agreed that certain countries would pay other countries war reparations. Obligations to pay back war debts slowed business expansion and international trade. In order to make money, governments then had to raise tariffs in order to pay for importation of resources and goods. ... In the 1920s the production of goods exceeded the demand for the products and as a result a vast number of factories were closed, which put many employees without a job. ...

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The reason why the campaign is same as those cleaners wrote in the letter: "Our hard work helps you to do your job properly and conformablyHowever because of our pay, we are struggling everyday to buy the things we need." ... Pidd(2011) in his article Tax us more, say wealthy Europeans said that many billionaires including Warren Buffett asking for pay more tex. In France 15 billionaires and the richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt signed a letter begging to pay more tax to help France out of finical crisis. ... It is hard for government to valued the wealthy for rich people even it is a ha...

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For instance, if you migrated from China, and were looking for a job, there would not be many jobs opportunities out there for you that would be safe. Many minority groups were often given jobs that were extremely dangerous and they would be at a high risk of getting injured or killed. Jobs like working in mines which caused many health problems because of the toxic fumes and coal dust in the air. ... These times were full of hard laborious jobs, low pay with the risk of getting injured on the job. ... Low standard of living, laborious jobs and long hours was a daily routine for many Canadians...

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The economy plays a strong role in creating challenges for people to earn an adequate income, pay for food and pay for housing. ... The reason is that it may affect their ability to get a job. ... Like, buy a razor, take a shower and go apply for a job. ... We think that if they wanted to, they could just get up and go get a job. ... He spoke little English and eventually landed a job changing oil. ...

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Ohio's welfare director Joel Potts believes that "the cheapest thing to do is to pay a woman to stay home and raise kids in extreme poverty. ... discusses the movement to create a "living-wage" which would boost minimum pay in an effort to ease poverty. ... This living-wage is designed to allow poverty-stricken workers to drop their second jobs, thereby giving them the opportunity to use that time to return to school and prepare for better jobs in the future. ... This money would be restricted for use in such things as paying for higher education, buying a first home, or starting a sma...

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This shows that Brittany comprehends the significance of paying bills on time. ... It is not Brittany's fault that her father got laid off, and that her mother is so ill that she cannot drive or have a job. ... It is not Jasmine's fault that recession was coming about, which caused her father's job to decline. ... Another thing that someone could do is help pitch in or fully pay for Jonny's football equipment. ... Kaylie states at the end of the video that she wants to have a perfect job that she likes and wants to do. ...

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There are strict laws that control the type of jobs, hours, and wages that children have if they do work. ... Permul, 16 year old child labourer from India tells her story of abuse at her job: "I go to work early at six in the morning. ... He had been sold into labour by his grandfather to pay a debt. ... Due to the fact that the children do not get an education and lack intelligence, they can never get a good, well-paying job in the future to support their family. They will not be able to pay for an education for their children, consequently they too will become child labourers. ...

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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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This lead to the gigantically high unemployment rates, which on its turn lead to an extremely high amount of overproduction (after all, people with no jobs could hardly spend much money on primary and secondary needs, let alone tertiary needs). ... We would not have tried to squeeze out every cent of our incomes to pay for a vacation trip that is better and longer than last years. We would not massively have ran to our banks for even larger loanes, for which we "only" have to pay 11% interest, in order to buy that all-important house on Martha's Vineyard. ... Because they didn't real...

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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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For example, the son of a janitor has 1 chance in 8 of getting a job that even has median income. While, the son of a lawyer is 27 times more likely that the son of the janitor to get a job that pays in the top 10 percent of incomes in America. ...

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This is someone who possesses few job or trade skills, has a low education level or has been discriminated against in some way. ... Poor health and abilities prevent many people from holding onto their jobs. ... " "Worrying about money a lot, how to pay for gas, running out bare necessities." "Overdrawing bank accounts, getting kicked out of homes for not being able to pay rent.... Also for current people that are welfare recipients to get adequate job training to sharpen their skills and get back out into the job market. ...

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For example there will be a lot of jobs opening. ... Many people like to work in a field where they have one specific job and that is all that they do. ... Those who retire do not always come back they start new careers that pay better than the education system. The education system does not have a very high pay rate. ... Pay plays apart in each reason that constitutes teacher shortage. ...

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