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DesideriScuri -> RE: Five ways Mitt Romney is fighting against unions and America's middle class (5/31/2012 7:44:41 AM)
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ORIGINAL: erieangel
I've read every post in this tread.
Nobody said the protections the unions have gained for workers would disappear overnight if unions ceased to exist. But those protections would erode. Even with the unions, some of those rights and laws have been targeted in the recent past.
However, when directly asked if that is what they are saying, nobody has answered it, until you. And, let's not forget that in the Information Age, the way rumors and truths spread so quickly and so wide, preventing erosion back to the conditions of the first half of the 20th century, won't be that difficult.
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Mitt (and most Republicans) want to do away with the minimum wage. You, yourself, have claimed that the minimum wage is a huge driver in keeping minors unemployed. But its not only minors who work for minimum wage. A lot of adults work for $7.25 an hour. And guess what, at 40 hrs. week, it isn't enough to rent a 2 bedroom apartment, so if you are an only parent with 1 child, you're out of luck, according to HUD. Oh, and in most states, it is illegal for a parent and child to share a bedroom or for 2 children of opposite gender to share a bedroom after a certain age--I know when my kids were 8 & 6 I was told I had to move into a 3 bedroom apartment.
http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011tbls.htm
Of the 3.829M people earning minimum wage or less (tips and other things are not included in wage earning calculations)
- 50.5% (1.933M) are over 25.
- 33.3% (1.274M) are Full-Time workers.
- 64.3% (2.462M) have never been married
- 21.8% (0.836M) are married and their spouses are present
I found no data showing how many families are supported by minimum wage earners, which is unfortunate. I would have liked to see how many people are supporting families with one minimum wage job, two full-time minimum wage jobs, one parent at a salary and the spouse making minimum wage, or how that all breaks down.
I'm not challenging your assertions, but I will say that I have never heard of the bedroom laws before. I am a bit surprised at them, to be honest. Not that I don't see why opposite gender children need to be separated, but it's probably something I never considered would need a law about. When my older brother went to college, my younger brother moved from the room he shared with my younger sister, into the room with me. At that point, I was 16, my younger brother was 11, and my sister was 8. That isn't quite the age when I think they would have needed to be separated, but it wasn't too far off. What was to prevent you from sharing a room with your kids, or let your kids share a room, once you had a larger apartment? Did they come and do random bed-checks? Some laws make me shake my head and wonder wtf people think sometimes.
What is the point of low-wage jobs? Why don't they pay more? What are the effects of increasing the minimum wage, beyond what increase in income it would mean (which assumes that nothing else changes)?
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