• The US Economy adds 321K jobs in November.
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[QUOTE=X12321;46646638]No matter what you change the wage to everything they were struggling to pay before will scale with their new wages. [/quote] Not really. Ok, ok, if you're flipping burgers for $15/hour then a can of coke will cost $2.50, but if you're only raising wages enough where getting a living wage is not more difficult than brain surgery that can of coke isn't going to rise more than a couple cents. If it rises at all. Wages need to be pinned to inflation. They aren't, which is the whole reason we're having this discussion in the first place. If they were pinned to inflation 98 to 99 percent of workers would have a living wage from just one job. It may not be enough of a wage to support dependents or roll in nice cars or whatever, but by god you wouldn't be living paycheck to paycheck on three jobs. IT's fucking absurd. [quote]I'm not saying there isn't a problem with minimum wage and living conditions of people who make minimum wage but simply raising minimum wage will not fix it. We live in a capitalist society with no regulation.[/QUOTE]So add some sensible regulation in while you're at it. Raising the minimum wage comes from the same source that regulation comes from, tie them to the same fucking bill. It isn't rocket science.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;46651323]I think the monthly jobs report controls for seasonal employment. It might not account for all of them if MORE seasonal people are hired this year than last year, but generally the methodology controls for those hires. [editline]6th December 2014[/editline] By that logic, slavery is better than unemployment. "Be happy you have a job!" is manipulative bullshit that is used by employers to force employees to eat shit and accept wages and working conditions they have no business accepting.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bls.gov/cps/faq.htm#Ques9[/url] They do account for seasonal work.
US-located job ads have started popping up on Linkedin Spain jobs section lately.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;46650933]Ha, yeah, except minimum wage is $7.25. In 1979 it was $2.90, but in modern dollars that's the buying power of $9.48. People are earning less than they did in the 70's, despite huge increases in productivity. Wages are unfairly low, even for entry level jobs. There should be no argument about that - the minimum wage needs to rise to at least 10 dollars and then be pinned to inflation in every state.[/QUOTE] I think your government could do a bit better with how it handles tax as well. Taxable income can be 'double-dipped' - taxed by both state and federal government, whereas here only the federal government levies income tax (but states can collect payroll tax levied on the employer). We also have an income tax-free threshold of $350 per week, so if you earn that much or less you don't pay income tax, but the US doesn't have such a thing and everyone pays at least 10% right away. Yes you have income tax deductions, but so do we. Also I will correct myself for earlier - your taxes are triple-dipped. Everyone pays 6.2% social security, again without a tax-free threshold, and the tax is regressive as the total amount you are liable for is capped once you hit roughly $100,000 income per annum. Higher wages would be great, but if you work in the US for $7.60 per hour, 32 hours per week, you pay $4.80 federal income tax per week, state income tax not included, and a $18.60 social security contribution per week. Imagine how much better it would be for low income people if they had an extra $23 per week.
We're stealing Canadas jobs :v:
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