Yes, Wal-Mart provides many uneducated Americans with job however it isn’t a job from which can make livable wage. Wal-Mart pays all their employees besides management minimum wage. With prices on the rise like they are today it is hard for a person to live off minimum wage which is currently 7 dollars and 25 cents in New York. Not to mention if you have kids it is virtually impossible to live off minimum wage and if you do it’s an unpleasing struggle. Another problem is that there is no growth in your field if you work at Wal-Mart.
These writers basically write about two completely different topics, but there’s a point we can relate: immigrants are most of the service workers. In fact, instead of complaining so much about immigrants, we should realize how important they are in our lives. Without immigrants, there wouldn’t be service workers to please us. In Ehrenreich’s adventure, we are able to see that even if the U.S. is called the “promise land”, not everyone can succeed. Living at low-wage is really difficult because the chances to get to a “‘living wage’ are about 97 to 1”(321) and when the author thinks about this, she states that “low-wage work is not a solution to poverty and possible not even to homelessness”(321).
Thus, with the cost of living rising and the constant rise in everyday essentials such as gas it is hard to live comfortably on that type of pay. Currently I work as a full time shift manager at Burger King. Even though I enjoy my job and many of my co-workers are like a small family away from home I don’t want to make this my long term venture in life. When I complete my schooling I will have a degree in Small Business Management and Accounting. I believe with these degrees and my experience I am presently gaining as a manager many doors will open for me when I graduate.
Teresa Graham English 111-0DJ Oct. 19, 2011 Teresa Graham English 111-0DJ Oct. 19, 2011 Working but Still Living in Poverty Many Americans work full time jobs but are living in poverty because of the recession, rising food cost, and government cuts. These situations are making it hard for Americans to make it in everyday life. They have to even sometimes beg for food for their families. So many people living in the United States have full-time jobs but the pay is minimum wage. With the economy in the shape it is, it makes those full-time jobs seem like only part-time jobs.
Today millions of people rent expensive homes, condos, and apartments, without an intension to ever purchase a home. On the other hand, mortgage rates are at an all time and the prices of homes has dropped considerably. For most people interested in buying a home, they can use this to there advantage and buy a home with more luxuries and features then they previously imagined. Renting can be easier and less stressful for many people, especially other people. The cost associated with maintenance, and the ability to do so, can be daunting for most.
While the creation of jobs would greatly ease the unemployment problem and combat poverty effectively, the issue on exploitation of the workforce, particularly women should be considered. Consider the Maquiladora effect and the sweatshop phenomenon. Consider wages below $US1.00 per hour. In such labour intensive industries like assembly line work, women, sometimes children (who are generally docile in LDCs) are forced to work between 20 – 30% more hours per year than their counterparts in DCs. Furthermore, their
In addition, we will talk about how the 2nd Industrial Revolution create breakthroughs for modern times. During the Industrial Revolution many factories and mines did everything they could to exploit women and children by having them work in less than desirable conditions. Owners of these facilities determined that even though these children could not do the work as most of the men, they were often paid a lot less, if anything at all. In some instances, if the father died or disappeared, it was up to the sons or oldest children in the household to provide for the family. As often times they received more in pay than that of the mother.
Below par wages are not the only reason nursing positions are hard to fill, nurses have a job that requires physical as well as mental strength and their employers must provide good working conditions to retain nurses. Reasons for the Shortage From 2006 to 2007 nurses pay increased only 1.34%, which is well below inflation (Herbst, 2007). RN’s are highly trained and skilled members of the workforce but their average pay is only $58,000 compared to $36,300 for average U.S. workers overall (Herbst, 2007). Clearly nurses don’t
Another reason why factory work is better according to me is the fact that if I worked in my own cottage, the income would be for the whole family ( the whole family earn a sum) but by working in a factory, we get paid individualy in the family which brings more money and of course if we have a cottage some merchants could actually mess of stock of materials. Also I think that work in the mines was most certainly not for the women. Working underground is not a good job for women. People hardly know what is going down there and the ceiling of the mines could collapse at any moment. We also have to consider the fact that it was physically tiring and when the women goes home after a hard day of labor in a dirty mine, she doesn`t really want to do anything else and that is bad because the family is expecthing her to cook
There is not enough nurses educated and trained to handle such an influx and the salary of current nurses is under debate. Another trend that is contributing to the nursing shortage is the wages nurses are receiving. Though wages have increased for nurses over the years, they are still behind inflation (Business Week, 2007). Nurses are still expected to give a high-rate of care to their patients in difficult working conditions like being understaffed or overworked. For the amount of work a nurse is expected to do and to do in such difficult working conditions, pay is an important factor to consider when entering this profession.