Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1606-1608

Most of our new jobs are in service industries, including retail and health care and personal care and food service. Those industries generally don't pay a living wage. In 2014, over half of American workers made less than $15 per hour, with some of the top employment sectors in the U.S. paying $12 an hour or less.

Worse, most underpaid workers are deprived of the benefits higher-income employees take for granted. A Princeton study concluded that a stunning 94 percent of the nine million new jobs created in the past decade were temporary or contract-based, rather than traditional full-time positions.
The Shocking Reality of a Future of Shrinking Jobs
By Paul Buchheit / AlterNet
April 20, 2017
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 ...And the jobs being created in their stead, in online warehouses for companies like Amazon, are too few to soak up those displaced.
…The numbers: U.S. retail jobs (mainly cashiers and sales people) plummeted by about 60,000 in the first three months of the year, to about 15.85 million, according to preliminary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
..."The department store platform seems to be falling apart."
Retail workers are being displaced in droves
Steve LeVine
XIOS
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 There are millions of Americans who work to the bone yet have to borrow from next month’s wages to pay last month’s bills. Millions more work two jobs just to keep the home warm and food on the table. Yet no one celebrates their hard work, and among certain circles they are derided as takers instead of makers and condemned to Mitt Romney’s “47 percent.”

The rich may worry about envy, but most Americans worry about making ends meet.
LEONARD STEINHORN
Letter to the New York Times
Washington, March 2, 2014