On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:42:37 -0000, "Ophelia"
> wrote:

>
>
> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
> .. .
> > In article >,
> > Ophelia > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>"Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
> ...
> >>> In article >,
> >>> Ophelia > wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>Oh dear We have a National Minimum wage law set in law
> >>>>
> >>>>https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates
> >>>
> >>> We have one too; it's $7.25/hour. However, companies like WalMart
> >>> will hire twice as many people at 20 hours per week, so that they
> >>> don't have to pay benefits (for example, paid time off, health
> >>> insurance,
> >>> retirement fund) to these part-time employees.
> >>
> >> Makes you wonder why anyone will work there
> >
> > Lack of other opportunities. No skills, manufacturing jobs offshored.
>
> OK. We have that here too with the huge number of immigrants in many places
> and the dumbing down of education in many schools. Even many university
> graduates can't find work any more The situation is not good.
>
> Our situation is improving but the young are finding it very hard:
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...h-8935723.html
>
> The jobless rate among under-25s is now 3.74 times the adult rate, up from
> 3.5 times the adult rate a year ago.
>
> More than 950,000 young people are now unemployed and almost a third (30 per
> cent) of them have been looking for work for more than a year. The latest
> official monthly statistics will be published today.

That pretty much mirrors what's happening over here. So much for the
Trickle Down theory.
>
> Oh dear, I said I wouldn't do this Ok I am done)
>
> Before anyone shouts at me it is all Cindy's fault))))

Yeah, yeah... blame the one in the hoop skirt. She's an easy target.


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