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Originally Posted by Dezzy
A low rate of unemployment means little when a huge number of working class families in the US are on the poverty line or below it despite working full time.
It's like when the Tories bragged about unemployment rates during the rise of zero hour contracts, it doesn't matter if you are employed if your job cannot support you. Figures like this are only meant to placate the gullible and the ignorant.
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Providing more jobs is still the first step in helping families in poverty. Maybe they're all minimum wage jobs, idk the details, but still without MORE jobs first and foremost, how else are they supposed to get help for work? The main other thing I can think of is raising minimum wage (which coincides with slightly higher rates in general), and min wage actually has been rising quite a bit across the states in the last few years. I can't speak for every state as it varies and I'm pretty sure NJ has one of the highest increases in minimum wage rates (from $8.50 to $10 to $11 next month) but from what I understand the minimum wage is increasing as a whole across the country and will only continue to... supposed to get up to $15/hr within a couple years in many states.
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