Reply #23: Sorry, But No One Is Going To Pay Middle Class Wages for Low Skilled Workers [View All]

[Yavin4]

The truth of the matter is that no employer is going to pay someone a middle class wage if they cannot read and comprehend well, and once the WPA job would be over, they'd be right back in the same bad economic position as before.

In fact, most middle class paying mfg and construction jobs require reading, comprehension, and mathematical skills, esp. knowledge of statistics for sampling and quality purposes.

It may have been great for your grandparents, but the times have changed.

If you want middle class paying jobs, you have to have higher skill levels. The only way a WPA program would work is if they also upgraded the skill levels of the workers.