On Jan 30, 11:36�am, "JimH" wrote:


Why? �Working 2 full time jobs at even minimum wage: $5.85 x 80 hours x 52
weeks = $24,336 gross. �Note that I used the rock bottom MW figure. �Some
State are well above that.

http://www.laborlawcenter.com/state-...asp?gclid=CMjv...

The MW will again go up in July, resulting in this 80 hour MW worker
grossing $26k. �Many college grads start off their careers making not much
more than that.

I am not cold and thoughtless but I truly believe poverty is often a
personal decision, especially when our government continues to enable folks
taking advantage of its assistance.- Hide quoted text -

Working two full time jobs is easy to say, but look at the realities.

You will probably be on the job 18-hours out of every 24 to work "two
full time jobs", given an hour for lunch and/or coffee breaks during
the day.
Add another hour and a half to commute to the first job, commute from
there to the second job, and from the second job back home again:

19.5 hours out of 24, leaving exactly 4.5 hours to eat, sleep, shower,
etc. Few people can sustain that kind of schedule for very long,
particularly on the crappy, mostly-starch diet normally eaten by the
poor. To get really complicated, the two jobs will have to have
opposite hours adn never require any overtime. The two job worker
doesn't have the flexibility to accept a shift change- very common in
mini-wage jobs.

To make things even more complex, a lot of those poor folks who need
to work two full time jobs to make ends meet are going to be single
mothers. Who's going to watch their kids? No money to pay for day
care, maybe no relatives not also working "two full time
jobs"......odds are that the kids will be left to fend for themselves
without adequate parental supervision and *that* alone will ensure
another generation of educational underachievement, delinquency, drug
abuse, prostitution, etc.

There are no simple answers.