Thread: Job = Just Over Broke

I have a friend that makes $500 a day working six hours. Home every day.

I have other friends earning more but they have sex with customers and maintain a work space away from home.

Yes, it's all relative.
( I'm not a doctor.)

Originally Posted by PeeCoffee

I have a friend that makes $500 a day working six hours. Home every day.

I have other friends earning more but they have sex with customers and maintain a work space away from home.

Yes, it's all relative.
( I'm not a doctor.)

How can I apply for this job?

Are they hiring?

What qualifications are needed?

Experience?

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Originally Posted by PeeCoffee

I have a friend that makes $500 a day working six hours. Home every day.

I have other friends earning more but they have sex with customers and maintain a work space away from home.

Yes, it's all relative.
( I'm not a doctor.)

How can I apply for this job?

Are they hiring?

What qualifications are needed?

Experience?

A vagina for starters!
And the ability to put your legs behind your ears.

we need a big fucking war to revive capitalism

Job report for May, 2016.

Look at the last little blue bar chart at the far right.

It's called ouch.



The jobs report in one word: ?Ouch? - MarketWatch

Wise worlds; applicable to some: "don't follow your passion unless you're a GOOD artist, or carpenter, or entrep, etc.

Otherwise you can "bring your passion with you."

To broke to pay....erm....write....a $500 check.

"The Reality Is, Half Of Americans Can’t Afford To Write A $500 Check"

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by Tyler Durden
Mar 6, 2017

The CEO of Assurant appeared on Bloomberg TV to explain why demand for his services is likely to increase: the chief executive of the mobile phone insurer said he expects a surge in demand as carriers charge customers more to replace their devices. “If you think back five years ago, you as a consumer didn’t know how much that phone cost, you thought it was free or close to free,” Assurant's Alan Colberg said Monday. “Now you’re paying $600, that’s a lot. So we’ve actually seen the attachment rate, or the number of people buying the product, going up a little bit in the last couple of years.”

He then proceeded to give Bloomberg his traditional sales pitch: Assurant is counting on growth at its business covering phones and appliances to help counter a decline in the segment that insures foreclosed homes for lenders. While improvement in the real estate market has limited the number of vacant homes, Colberg said there are still many cash-strapped consumers.

It is what he said next that caught our attention: “The reality is, half of Americans can’t afford to write a $500 check,” Colberg said. He spun that stunning statistic by saying that when US customers sign up for a cellular plan, they’re willing to buy protection in case “they lose that phone or something happens to it.”

In other words, there are millions of Americans who don't have $500 in the bank but are willing to dish out more than that on a cell phone, and then are stupid enough to make monthly payments that ultimately end up being far higher than $500 to protect their purchase... which they clearly couldn't afford in the first place.

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That said, we decided to look into the CEO's claim about the woeful state of US finances. What we found is that according to a recent Bankrate survey of 1,000 adults, 57% of Americans don’t have enough cash to cover a mere $500 unexpected expense. Turns out the CEO was right. And while that may appear dire, it is a slight improvement from 2016, when 63% of U.S. residents said they wouldn’t be able to handle such an expense.

The survey's findings have shed light on how the so-called recovery of the past 8 years has skipped about half of the US population, which literally live paycheck to paycheck, and reflects a country in which many households continue to struggle with their basic finances more than seven years after the official end to the recession.

Putting the numbers in context: despite steady job growth during the Obama administration - which have been focused on minimum wage industries - wages have been predictably slow to recover, with the typical American household still earning 2.4% below what they brought home in 1999, when income peaked. Meanwhile, costs for essentials such as housing and child care have surged faster than the rate of inflation, placing stress on household budgets and making the accumulation of wealth, i.e., savings, impossible.

The bottom line: About four out of 10 Americans said they had enough in savings to cover a surprise $500 expense. Another 21% said they would rely on a credit card, while 20% said they’d cut back on other expenses. Another 11% said they’d turn to family or friends for the money.

"The Reality Is, Half Of Americans Can?t Afford To Write A $500 Check" | Zero Hedge

I think one of Trump's campaign promises was to increase the national minimum wage. That would be nice (and well overdue)- but will he deliver? It would certainly leave egg on Obamas face.

Originally Posted by sabang

I think one of Trump's campaign promises was to increase the national minimum wage. That would be nice (and well overdue)- but will he deliver? It would certainly leave egg on Obamas face.

Thanks for the FYI, Sab.

I never heard that promise.

Some states have started to implement incremental annual increases.

The MW is still very low compared to the late 60s.

Edit in:

Trumpy waffled, it seems....

What Will Donald Trump Actually Do About the Federal Minimum Wage?

President-elect Donald Trump's economic plan focuses mainly on tax reform and trade agreements, but there's another important issue on the table for low-income Americans: raising the federal minimum wage.

The federal minimum wage, barring workers who make most of their money in tips, is the lowest hourly wage a worker can be paid in the U.S.

Each state's minimum wage has to at least meet the federal rate, which is only $7.25 an hour. Currently, there are at least 19 states where people are being paid as low as $7.25 an hour for their work, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

"We need to be honest – the current federal minimum wage is a poverty wage," Sen. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) told ATTN:.


So, what would Donald Trump do about it?
On the campaign trail, Trump said he would consider raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour, according to The Washington Post. During a Florida press conference in July, Trump said that he wanted to raise the minimum wage, but states should "call the shot."

"The minimum wage has to go up. People are — at least $10, but it has to go up. But I think that states — federal — I think that states should really call the shot," he reportedly said at the press conference.

However, Trump's position on the federal minimum wage hasn't been consistent.

Last year, before his campaign comments about a $10 federal minimum wage, Trump said that American wages are "too high."

“Our taxes are too high. Our wages are too high. We have to compete with other countries," Trump said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" in 2015.

Those statements, along with a Republican held House and Senate, make Lee skeptical that Trump actually push for a federal minimum wage increase.

"Donald Trump has also said he believes 'wages are too high' and Speaker Paul Ryan has indicated his intention to further gut our nation’s safety net, including food stamps, Medicaid and Medicare," Lee said.

Last week, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said he would hold Trump to that promise, and called the federal minimum wage a "starvation wage."


David Cooper, of the liberal Economic Policy Institute, says historical trends suggest the time has come for a minimum wage increase.

"If we had raised the federal minimum wage at the same pace as productivity growth since 1968, the high point of the federal minimum wage in inflation-adjusted terms, it would be over $19 an hour today," he said. "That means that anyone making less than $19 an hour today is potentially making less than what the economy could have afforded them, if we had adopted different policies over the last 48 years."

If Trump doesn't act, Cooper said he's not confident the low wages will be addressed at the state level.

"The reality is that without a federal standard, some states simply won’t take action," he said.

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