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Working harder and longer will not translate into a promotion if employers pull up the ladders and offer supervisory positions exclusively to people with college degrees.
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Because large companies now farm out many positions to independent contractors, those who buff the floors at Microsoft or wash the sheets at the Sheraton typically are not employed by Microsoft or Sheraton, thwarting any hope of advancing within the company.
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Nearly 40 percent of full-time hourly workers know their work schedules just a week or less in advance.
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Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein showed in their landmark book, “Making Ends Meet,” single mothers pushed into the low-wage labor market earned more money than they did on welfare, but they also incurred more expenses, like transportation and child care, which nullified modest income gains.
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In January, the federal government announced that it would let states require that Medicaid recipients work.
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In a low-wage labor market characterized by fluctuating hours, tenuous employment and involuntary part-time work, a large share of vulnerable workers fall short of these requirements. Nationally representative data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation show that among workers who qualify for Medicaid, almost 50 percent logged fewer than 80 hours in at least one month.
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America’s welfare policies have brought about a “decline in self-sufficiency.”
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One study found that 90 percent of young women on welfare stopped relying on it within two years of starting the program, but most of them returned to welfare sometime down the road.
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between jobs or after a family crisis.
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The majority of working-age poor people connected to the labor market were part-time workers.
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The nonworking poor person getting something for nothing is a lot like the cheat committing voter fraud: pariahs who loom far larger in the American imagination than in real life.
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As Evelyn Nakano Glenn argues in her 2010 book, “Forced to Care,” industrialization caused American families to become increasingly reliant on wages, which had the effect of reducing tasks that usually fell to women (homemaking, cooking, child care) to “moral and spiritual vocations.” “In contrast to men’s paid labor,” Glenn writes, “women’s unpaid caring was simultaneously priceless and worthless — that is, not monetized.” She continues: “To add insult to injury, because they could not live up to the ideal of full-time motherhood, poor women of color were seen as deficient mothers and caregivers.”
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28 Nov 18
Needcollegehelp.comThis is a deep dive into the structural problems of the roaring US economy. When lower-class people have jobs, income #inequality is denying them a fair share of their productivity.
It's a #longread, but one that will change your mind.
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Francois GuiteU.S. unemployment is down and jobs are going unfilled. But for people without much education, the real question is: Do those jobs pay enough to live on?
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Sungil ParkAmericans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not. 한 줄 요약: 근면 성실만으로는 빈곤에서 벗어나기가 사실상 어렵다. https://t.co/tUn79Yqd0K
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Lumina FoundationSept. 11, 2018 - Vanessa Solivan and her three children fled their last place in June 2015, after a young man was shot and killed around the corner. They found a floor to sleep on in Vanessa’s parents’ home on North Clinton Avenue in East Trenton. It wasn’t a safer neighborhood, but it was a known one. Vanessa took only what she could cram into her station wagon, a 2004 Chrysler Pacifica, letting the bed bugs have the rest.
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Brian DusablonAmericans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not. via @instapaper
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JanieHTHIS IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND.
#Poverty #LiesTheyTell
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PogieSpent some time on planes today and read a lot of good things but wow this was the punch in the stomach best:
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11 Sep 18
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Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not. via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2x5yd8J
Venessa Solivan and her three children fled their last place in June 2015, after a young man was shot and killed around the corner. They found a floor to sleep on in Vanessa’s parents’ home on North Clinton Avenue in East Trenton. It wasn’t a safer …
Venessa Solivan and her three children fled their last place in June 2015, after a young man was shot and killed around the corner. They found a floor to sleep on in Vanessa’s parents’ home on North Clinton Avenue in East Tren… https://ift.tt/2x5yd8J
Vanessa Solivan and her three children fled their last place in June 2015, after a young man was shot and killed around the corner. They found a floor to sleep on in Vanessa’s parents’ home on North Clinton Avenue in East Trenton. It wasn’t a safer …
Vanessa Solivan and her three children fled their last place in June 2015, after a young man was shot and killed around the corner. They found a floor to sleep on in Vanessa’s parents’ home on North Clinton Avenue in East Tren… https://ift.tt/2x5yd8Jbest stories hacker news diigo digg Pocket tenpla Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution Poverty. They’re Not. IFTTT Instapaper
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