Many places won’t rent to someone that cannot prove monthly income greater than 3x the rent.
This happened to me. I provided a bank statement that proved I had a year of rent in savings…
its like a competitive job applicant in these places.
HCOl im near does this, theres like a job-like application for some of these rental units. not a problem for most high paying tech, or a nurse. but even then they would rather live somewhere cheaper and usually have another high income partner.
Tips help the owner not the employee.
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Depends greatly on the location, honestly. In some restaurants you can get over $500 per night, which is more than what a “pays a living wage” would pay.
Walmart plans for extraordinarily high turnover. If the median worker is there longer than a year, they are overpaying for labor. If less than a year, they’ll bring on new workers at higher rates than their experienced workers. Why give the experienced people higher pay when they’ve proven they will stay on at less?
Walmart is one of the scummiest employers on the planet, and they have an outsized influence on the rest of the labor market.
Why are there even brackets and thresholds for benefits? It should be a linear scale. 1 hour of work = 1/40th, 29h = 29/40, 30h = 30/40th etc.
Or perhaps the “benefits” should be from government and not employer.
Because fuck the poor!
Also we have a similar, but nowhere near a bad so called benefit cliff in the uk
healthcare is also a workplace benefit in the u.s. too
sounds like the required benefits are limiting peoples income and companies are just finding way around it. I still don’t know why Americans think medical should be tied to employment. Why not remove these required benefits from the employer and find another solution.
Luckily there are multiple functioning health care systems around the world to take inspiration from.
Medi-caid, snap, other benefits that are “Welfare” have very low “max income” mostly less than 20k/year for most states, and they calculate based on your gross income per month, not after adjusted tax income. most people earning that little often arnt living on thier own, or if they do , its usually because they are retire dwith substantial savings, but still need to work.
I think they’re doing it because they’re afraid Americans are going to dump traditional work and go do work or a craft they actually enjoy whatever that might be. Or it could just be the old puritan mentality cemented in the stupid minds of the average selfish citizen.
There’s a lot of reason it’s tied to employment, and it’s all basically to make sure most Americans are basically poor feudal peasants.
We live in the modern equivalent of a feudal monarchy, and if you’re not contributing as a member of the labor class then you won’t be taken care of. Simple as that. Laboratores must labor.
And we simply turn our heads and pretend the rest don’t exist. Those that don’t labor are shunned, and will die off of infection or starvation or due to the elements.
And then we say it’s their fault for being lazy.
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Otherwise known as corporate welfare.
When I worked as a restocker at a grocery store, they planned the majority of us for 3 hours a day (we were mostly minors so we didn’t know better), from 17:00 till 20:00. Because, at 3.5 hours, you were entitled to a 30 minute break, and even tho it was an unpaid break they still didn’t want you to take it. Did you get a lot more stuff then normal and so you had to work overtime? Tough shit, you still ain’t getting that break even tho it’s now 21:00
Sometimes they would even cut some people their hours back if they felt that they weren’t working hard enough (again, we were minors, some of us making 4 bucks an hour, they were that petty). Fuck this system
Even at 32 hours I don’t get any benefits at Walmart.
not even the 5-finger discount.?
Shareholder profits over people. Got to find Grandpa’s golf outings in retirement… 🫠 I can only imagine them attempting to get healthcare
what’s screwed up is at 2010 a month it also disqualifies you from Medicaid in states that have low income eligibility. It’s not uncommon that if you aren’t getting benefits to self cap your hours at 20-25 hours a week because any more and you lose federal aid, so its cheaper for them to actually work /less/. All stemming from the companies inability to let their workers work.
medicaid calculates your total gross income, and not adjusted by tax. so if you are earn 700 instead of the 1000 before taxes, they will count that 1000. i know a person that works just under limit , shes afraid of going over, eventhough lunch period cuts 30minutes out of the paycheck, so shes actually earning way less than the max income for medicaid in my state.
2010, is actually way over in most states, if not all for medicaid. the highest is ~1840ish in most states per month. depending on the min wage, it can be only 18-19hrs (with out lunch cutting into the hours).
amazon does this too, set thier max limit for part time workers to 19hrs , when they had shoppers still(2018-2022), and maybe the amazon return stations. i think warehouses might be different(since most of them are full time)
Yep, these effects are called welfare traps. It’s why benefits shouldn’t have hard thresholds, but instead taper off gradually as income increases.
Although in the case of health care, it should obviously be universal in the same way that every other developed country implements it.
I mean, the better solution is for everyone to get benefits with no taper. That way there’s never any trap and no one has to worry about covering essentials.
Give everyone… ghasp, socialism!
Slavery. It’s slavery.
funny they have the tapering effect for the aca plans in many states. the more you earn the less credit you get for it to be lower the cost.
I’ve never been the same since it clicked in me that welfare payments are used in a huge part to subsidise the businesses that refuse to pay more than minimum wage. So when the news trumpets that “$COMPANY has made record profits this year”, all I hear is a story about how much profit that company has made while also receiving an indirect government bailout.
It does seem like a company shouldn’t be able to take/distribute profit until it’s repaid all the federal and state programs that the employees rely on.
This is how you radicalize a generation btw.
This has been going on for 20 years. Still waiting for that radicalized generation
More than that. But yeah, clearly they’ve figured out a formula to keep people poor and apathetic. So many people don’t vote because they don’t want to get involved in politics. Too bad, cause politics is involved in you - and it’s fucking you over.
Humans are the frog in boiling water made real.
They’re scrolling tiktok and whatever feeds them a constant supply of propaganda, to numb the pain of life, caused by the controlling systems they support, as a team sport, identity their fragile egos are too weak to choose to change. That takes too much courage and integrity.
genz and some alpha love tiktok, its crack to them. now that usa has bought a portion of tiktok, it will be even more addictive.
I’m pretty rad.
Where I work you can only work temporarily for 2 years before they automatically get a permanent contract (it’s UK law basically). I got a colleague come to me for support yesterday saying he’s been told his contract won’t be renewed beyond 1year+11months and they’re going to advertise to hire another person into the role (presumably for another 1 yr + 11 m).
They do this at our Post Office.
The Union says you must get a raise after 12 months of continuous employment.
Well wouldn’t you know it. They only write contracts for 50 weeks employment and 0 PTO. They phrase this contract as if it’s how they “gift” you 2 weeks of vacation. My coworkers didn’t understand it until we got to week 49…
That sounds like it might be a place with somewhat robust worker’s protections, at least on paper. Are there mechanisms to prevent employers gaming the system like that?
Back in 1960, the minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the cost of the average US home was $11,000.00.
When Richard Nixon was elected in 1968, ‘middle class’ was defined as one job paying for a house, a car, and enough money to send the kids to college. In those days $1 million was considered a vast fortune. After five GOP Presidential terms, middle class was two incomes to support a family of four, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
my parents had thier first house in the 80s for 120k, so it fits. it drastically went up in the 90s if they bought it.
That is quite a sum in the 80s. My grand parents bought a 2 bdrm condo for about $20k. It took them a while to save up like $10k and they still had a loan. The loan was also at something like 13% rate.
