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#livingwage

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Day four: 🍻🍺 vs 🎓💰

While some issues are being discussed, one isnt HECS DEBT. We can talk about having a beer with the Prime ministerial candidates but not EDUCATION costs and spiralling debt.

While we’re at it. UNEMPLOYED? Has the living allowance been raised? At all, does it match inflation? Is it below the poverty line?

#PubTest / #PrimeMinister / #HexDebt / #HECSDebt / #HECS / #University / #Unemployed / #PovertyLine / #LivingWage / #LukasCoch / AAP <theguardian.com/australia-news>

Do you want to have a drink with? … who bloody cares, there’s real problems being swept under the carpet. source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2025/apr/01/from-babysitting-to-keeping-a-secret-the-pm-is-preferred-but-it-is-the-literal-pub-test-where-albo-stands-out
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William Canna-bass

@Brad_Rosenheim Lady, have you tried paying a #LivingWage ?
My guess is that you aren't.
"The American worker doesn’t like labor, they don’t like to do laborious jobs,” Carlson said. “They don’t want to do the hard labor, and that’s what’s frustrating, because we would love to hire U.S. workers, but we can’t get them to show up. We can’t get them to follow through. We can’t get them to finish the season.”

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William Canna-bass

@johnzajac TBF, #Elon88Musk is #Literally firing federal workers by the thousands. This statement is true.

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To your larger point, no Immigrants don't take jobs away from people, it is really the corporations and business owners who fail to pay a #LivingWage and have #HazardousConditions that result in say, undocumented teenagers working the night shift at a Meat packing plant and being injured or Fatally mangled.

apnews.com/article/illegal-chi

AP News · US company accused of illegally hiring children to clean meat processing plantsBy HANNAH FINGERHUT
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Green Party NI

Ards and North Down Borough Council is now a Real Living Wage Employer, thanks to Green Party councillors Barry McKee and Lauren Kendall. This milestone ensures fair wages and financial security for workers, setting a crucial example in a region with high low-pay rates. The Greens have delivered tangible results, following their earlier success in Belfast City Council. 🌱
#LivingWage

Councillors Lauren Kendall & Barry McKee standing outdoors in a wooded area, smiling and holding a large sign that reads "We are a Living Wage Employer" in blue, white, and multicoloured circles. The sign promotes the real Living Wage campaign. Overlay text reads: "GREENS DELIVER REAL LIVING WAGE," and the Green Party Northern Ireland logo is displayed at the bottom.
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Miss Gayle

Sub-living wage jobs should be illegal.

All jobs should come in fixed blocks of either 20 hours or 40 hours per week, chosen by the employee.

Cities, Counties, and States should send a bill each month to every corporation for ever dime of means-tested benefits and services provided to their employees (w/out naming them, of course).

Article: sherwood.news/personal-finance

Multiple jobholder rates are the highest they’ve been since the Great Recession 5.4% of American adults were juggling more than one job last month — the highest share in 15+ years. Hyunsoo Rim, 3/10/25 For more and more US adults in the current economy, it seems like just one job is no longer enough. According to Friday’s job report, the number of multiple jobholders in the US surged to a record 8.9 million in February, the highest figure since data tracking began in 1994. That’s 5.4% of all employed workers — a level last seen in April 2009.
#Employment#Economy#LivingWage
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Miss Gayle

Every dime of exec compensation & shareholder dividends is money that was not paid to the workers that actually generated the revenue.

Refusing to pay living wages is theft from workers, period.

Every city, county, and state should bill each corp monthly for every dime of money spend paying social safety net funds to their workers (without naming names). And revoke their biz license if they don't pay up.

The Icarian @The_Icarian@federated.press Quoting Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie People seem to be confused. When workers are paid less than a living wage, they're forced to rely on taxpayer funded social safety nets to survive. That's not a taxpayer "handout" to workers. That's a taxpayer handout to corporations.
#LivingWage#WorkersRights#Economy
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