Mike Steketee, writing in The Australian on June 6, gave a more realistic picture: "A revolution in work in Australia has left fewer than half of employees working a standard Monday-to-Friday week and has seen a dramatic growth in casual and low-paying jobs, according to new research: " full time permanent employees made up 74 per cent of the workforce in 1988 but only 61 per cent in 2002. ... Gregory (2002) suggests that there are three main reasons why focusing on unemployment alone can be misleading: " it takes away from paying attention to the lack of full-time job growth; it understa...

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In these cities many families face a shortage of entry-level jobs, poverty-ridden neighborhoods where education and work experience is limited, and poor mass transportation to the suburbs, where jobs seem to be more abundant. ... He said, "The best antipoverty program is still a job." ... More single mothers have jobs. ... These jobs do not allow families to bring home paychecks that will bring them over the poverty level. ... Most of them cannot pay for child-care and therefore they are left unattended. ...

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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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Raising the minimum wage would result in increased wages and decreased jobs. ... Since the early days of an implemented minimum wage, job loss has occurred. ... Our job market is being torched" (Wilson, 2012, p. 07). ... With the American economy the way that it currently is, minimum wage jobs, kept at a lower pay rate, are essential to the stability of the workforce and economy. ... By increasing the minimum wage, jobs become eliminated. ...

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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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The labor force comprises of all person over the age of 16 who are either working for pay or actively seeking paid employment. ... One can define unemployment as the inability of labor force participants to find jobs. ... The bureau defines the employed as those that have "worked for pay in the previous week or didn't work due to illness, vacation bad weather or a labor strike. ... Because these figures are not accurately represented the state and federal government have to dish out more money towards unemployment compensation than should be and when they do this it reflects on the taxes...

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Why should one person's income be taxed to pay for the man who had lost his job? ... Taxes we pay towards unemployment insurance are to be seen more as an investment rather than the law. A man supports his family with a job that he has been working at for the past 20 years and has been paying unemployment insurance since he started. ... There aren't many more stressful predicaments in a family then losing a job. ... As soon as he is out of his critical condition he must come up with his own funds to pay for any additional medical services that he wishes them to provide. ...

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Bravely, she enrolls in school, finds a job that pays minimum wage, and receives state mandated child support. ... When the breadwinner of the family loses their job, it can be devastating. ... Finding a job isn't easy, but certainly not impossible. Finding a well-paying job with benefits, on the other hand, that keeps a roof over-head, food on the table, and creditors at bay, seems to be. ... Every day, more and more Americans find themselves out of work with bills to pay and families to support. ...

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There were many lost jobs and homes. ... The closings were because they had no income and people could not to pay their loan bills. ... The companies could not afford to pay employees, suppliers etc (Wiegand, 246). ... These jobs were ion federal camps around the country. ... Over the next year this agency provided 2.5 billion jobs. ...

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The attempt by the federal government and state was found only beneficial to certain minimum waged paying employees and was unsuccessful to the goal of reducing poverty proving to be a poor system. ... One of the major key reasons behind this collection of data was due that majority of the poor do not even have a job in the first place rendering them ineligible for the benefits of pay increase, the statistical data found in this analysis reports to be far greater than expected reaching over 54 percent of the poor ( Sabia and Nielsen, 2012). ... By increasing minimum wage unemployment rates in...

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Once immigrants get used to the system they become consumers of Canadian public services and start pay taxes. ... Studies show that immigrants in Canada impose a burden $6,000 each by consuming more in services than they pay in taxes. ... The result of this is that firms will now pay a lower average wage and will therefore increase their demand for labor since the cost of hiring a worker declines. ... Immigration can increase competition for existing jobs but it can also create new jobs. ... Immigration generate jobs. 2. ...

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You are have to pay taxes and that money goes to the government, so that means that the money is the government's and that they can do what they choose with it. ... That is far from the truth, some of the so-called "lazy" people do have jobs, but most are stuck with low-paying jobs. Yet these people with the low-paying jobs have troubles supporting themselves because of how little that they make, but they still try to benefit all that they can to our society. ... Medicare is there for people who don't have insurance or money to pay the hospital in case of emergencies. ... People in n...

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This is a very big issues that society need to pay more attention: The youth unemployment especially graduated university students. ... Effects In many countries the government has to pay the unemployed some benefits. For example, in America, when he/she lose his/her job, the government will give he/she monthly an amount of money until he/she has a new job. ... Face the reality, how can young people pay his/her bills, taxes, debit debt,..etc without any wages? ... The way they educated young is to become job-creators, not job-seekers. ...

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In time these "non-qualifiable" families started feeling the pressure and could not pay the mortgages therefore their house was taken. ... No one wanted to buy and those families that were able to pay their mortgages found it useless since the value of their house has decreased. ... Furthermore, households ran behind paying their bills, especially from utility and rent. ... Apart from this, the houses were being taken away from those that couldn't pay. ... A heavy price has been paid in terms of lost jobs, reduced hours and associated income losses. ...

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The high-tech industry has created many new jobs paying high salaries, resulting in a decline in job opportunities for low-skilled workers. ... Transportation has also become a barrier to employment because low-income workers have limited resources to get to those higher paying entry-level positions in the suburbs where the job growth is most rapid. ... An average American family pays 7% of income to childcare, as opposed to the 25% paid by low-income families. ... It is nearly impossible to get a job without having a permanent residence, address, and phone number. Getting a permanent addre...

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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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Most of us can agree that America has a strong economy, jobs are available so why doesn't the "American Dream" work for everybody? ... Whether people who exit or are terminated from welfare have jobs, whether those jobs enable them to afford housing, whether they have quality child care, whether they are homeless or hungry - these factors do not appear to be important measures to the President or Congress alike. (8) The largest cash assistance program for poor families with children was the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) until its repeal in August of 1996. ... Liebow goes ...

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Moore's claims regarding WtW are as follows: it forced Owens to get a job if she wanted continued benefits, such as foods stamps and health care; she was required to "work off" the welfare money the state had previously given her; despite working up to seventy hours per week, she could not afford to pay her rent; unable to pay her rent, she was forced to live with her brother, who owned a handgun; due to the busy work schedule forced upon her by the state, she was unable to supervise her child; due to a lack of supervision, her son was able to take the handgun to school and shoot Kayla. ...

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"(Fremon 18) However during that same time "average wages for manufacturing jobs increased only 8%"( Fremon 23). ... Banks began to fail as a result of people not paying back the money they had owed to the bank. ... They believed it would be a way for the US to pay off their own debts. ... Farmer could not make enough money to pay their loans and many lost their farms and homes. The working class, 1 in 4 lost their job and with no way to make money many lost their home and struggled to get food for their families. ...

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Truth be told, inflation is also caused by the flooding of the market with bills printed to pay the high costs of laborers in the market. ... If people would respect their money and understand the value of the dollar then they would have to learn skills that would promote them in the job market. ... Mothers figure that the welfare check will come in the mail, so where's the motivation for going out and getting a job? ... A.F.D.C. also pays benefits to two-parent families if both parents are unemployed. ... Energy assistance, which is federally financed but administered by the states, he...

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A time in which many lost their jobs, became homeless, and went hungry. ... The labor force worked long hours with little pay. ... Over thirteen million people lost their jobs during 1929 to 1936. ... Before the Great Depression, republicans held most of the government jobs. ... These jobs provided jobs for 2,500,000 people during the Depression. ...

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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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But once their portfolio was reduced to almost nothing, they could no longer pay for those things which had caused the amount of money people spend into the economy to decrease. ... It would be difficult for them to find a job because the companies around their area were trying to cut down everything to accommodate the effects of the economic downturn. Many of those companies that went bankrupted could no longer pay what they had to owe. ... There are even more expected bankruptcies and even more jobs to be cut. Finding a job in the market is now more competitive than ever. ...

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By having raw materials, such as oil and coal, a country is able to produce goods at lower average costs, and therefore they will be able to export these goods, which would increase the GDP of a country.In not having raw materials, countries are at a major cost disadvantage, as they have to pay for imports of the materials. ... So therefore, the confidence among a population increases, and strikes become less likely to occur.Another way how economic growth can be desirable is that a growing economy affects unemployment, as more jobs are made which causes unemployment to decrease. ... This can ...

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Those who pay with an EBT card have to meet specific requirements in order to use it. ... During my observations, I assumed all of the customers using EBT have minimum wage jobs or don't work enough hours to provide for their families. ... If both parents are working in full-time, minimum wage jobs, which pay $7.25 per hour, it is impossible for them to make ends meet. ... Black job applicants have been rejected simply because of their race. ... If institutional racism and white privilege did not exist, the difference between unemployment rates of blacks and whites would be significantly ...

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