Nearly 49% of new jobs are low wage positions

[Bluebear]

Good luck rebounding if there's no middle class. This isn't a new problem but Washington keeps pretending as though it isn't even a problem. The decades long decline is ignored by both parties in favor of making life easier and more comfortable for the financial elite. NY Times:

America’s private payrolls shrank from January 2008 through February 2010, losing 8.84 million jobs on net. They have been growing every month since that nadir, adding 1.26 million jobs on net. (Public payrolls are another story — they’ve been falling over the last year.)

All this means, of course, that the private sector job market still has a long way to go before it returns to its previous peak. Worse, those jobs that have been created in the last year typically pay less than the jobs they’re replaced.

According to NELP:

* Lower-wage industries (those paying $9.03 -$12.91 per hour) accounted for just 23 percent of job losses, but fully 49 percent of recent growth.
* Midwage industries ($12.92 -$19.04 per hour) accounted for 36 percent of job losses, and 37 percent of recent growth.
* Higher-wage industries ($19.05 -$31.40 per hour) accounted for 40 percent of job loss, but only 14 percent of recent growth.

http://www.americablog.com/2011/02/nearly-49-of-new-jobs-are-low-wage.html

[bobbolink]

1. Yup, and many of them will have to resort to food stamps to survive, and will be subjected to the

scrutiny that so many "liberals" think they should be subjected to.

That will be an eye-opener for many of these newly poor.......

[LAGC]

2. Race to the bottom...

Republicans won't be satisfied until we're all making minimum wage.

Then they'll abolish that, and we can try living on $2/day like other Third World countries.

[Autumn]

4. It will be an easier slide, since so many of our

leaders, yes Democrats, don't care either.

[asjr]

5. Even worse than that is we will be working

for Republican owned companies.

[bobbolink]

8. If you can't make ends meet, and end up working full time and being homeless, does it

matter if the company is Rep or Dem?

And don't kid yourself.. the Dems are doing it as much as the Rep.

[WinkyDink]

10. And THAT is their definition of "GLOBALIZATION." It was NEVER meant to

raise other nations' people; it was ALWAYS meant to reduce the living-standard of OURS.

[bobbolink]

3. well, shit.... somehow I see that I accidently hit unrec... can some kind soul please rectify that

for me?

:blush:

thannks.... sigh.... :dunce:

[Autumn]

7. Got it

How are you doing? Feeling better?:hug:

[bobbolink]

11. Thanks! That was really a dumb move....

No, unfortunately, I don't feel better, and that is probably why I unrec'd when I should have rec'd.

I can't get the rest I need, so there is no way to improve.

:nuke:

[WinkyDink]

6. Who wants a Middle-Class "rebounding"? Not globalists, corporatists, or financiers.

[bobbolink]

12. Nor do Dems want poor people to be secure. Same/same.

[KathieG]

9. Eventually they won't need to outsource jobs to other countries.

[PA Democrat]

13. Low wages, no health insurance, no pensions. At the same time that efforts are also underway to cut

Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.

[bobbolink]

16. and food stamps, and low-income housing, heat assistance...

The list goes on, and where are the "progressive" protests?????

[aquart]

14. What a surprise. BTW, the cost of gas and food is going up.

[Drale]

15. I've been looking for a part time job for a year now

I've filled out roughly 200 applications and have gotten one call back, from best buy for seasonal. I didn't get the job.

[NNN0LHI]

17. Our wages and benefits are being patterned after scab labor scale instead of union scale

Low wages and a 401-k retirement plan that some shithead is going to figure out how to screw you out of before you retire. That is the plan.

Its been working pretty good too.

Don

[bobbolink]

22. Do you know what the hourly wage of someone on SSI works out to?

$4.21 an hour.

Does that matter?

[Brigid]

18. But we're supposed to be grateful.

Don't you know that? :eyes:

[Little Star]

19. EXACTLY!

[Kingofalldems]

20. Repubs love this--more money for rich people

[xmas74]

21. Before my lay off:nearly $15.00 an hour.

After my lay off: $8.00 an hour.

It's the only job I've found. How am I expected to support a family with this income?

[bobbolink]

23. OF course you can't... not without relying on foodstamps, etc. You know what people on SSI get?

It works out to $4.21 an hour.

You think people can live on THAT? Yet, it is not of concern to "progressives".

Can we finally find a way to work together, or must really poor people continue to be ignored in favor of "the middleclass"?

[xmas74]

25. Before the recession I was lower middle class

but at least I had enough to support my family. Now it's worse than ever.

I grew up without a lot so I've always been concerned about the issues of poverty. Even at our worst times I've taught my child to volunteer, to learn to give, and to be grateful for what she has.

I just wish others would see it the same way and not pass judgment.

[bobbolink]

27. Then I hope we can work together. I am devastated at the lack of concern by the protesting

middleclass, and so are many others of us.

To continue to ignore us in this way .... well, I don't have the words for it.

They can't seem to grasp that we are all in this together, and that THEY need US, too!

You are right.. the Calvinist judgementalism is deadly. And it exists everywhere, including at DU.

Your little girl is lucky to have such a good mother! :yourock:

[xmas74]

31. I try.

What else is there to do? Either you try to make things better or you roll over and die.

I refuse to roll over.

[Bluebear]

34. 4.21??????

Wow, don't spend it all in one place, eh?`:mad:

[Forkboy]

35. I spend all mine on soda and drugs.

:)

[sarcasmo]

24. Third world country. Working class and the rich. Hard to survive on ten bucks and hour.

[bobbolink]

28. Maybe some day the rest of you will include poor people in the lineup.

:shrug:

[sarcasmo]

30. Is working poor better for you?

[bobbolink]

33. So many of us have said over and over and over..... What about those who are too old, too sick or

too injured to work?

Fling ourselves over a cliff?

Its time to think about those who are left out with these fads of wording.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

26. State settles for luring low-wage jobs (North Carolina)

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/09/19/690381/incentive-deals-settle-for-low.html#ixzz1F6cFrGrG

Definitely Two Americas in North Carolina.

[tigereye]

29. is there a distinction made of the types of jobs those are?

Service jobs? Jobs for college grads? Skilled labor? etc.

[bvar22]

32. There you go again...begrudging them their wealth.

I know these guys, and "they are just savvy businessmen."

We can't "begrudge them their wealth."
"Its the Free Market."

"Look at all the baseball players."

Its the "Uniquely American Solution!"


"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want us to compete for that great mass of voters that want a party that will stand up for working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone


"By their works you will know them."

[aikoaiko]

36. Sadly, mid-wage and higher-wage aren't really very high either.

freaking depressing.