$21.00 Welfare Challenge

This is a copy of my RESPONSE, to some COMMENTS to my posting about the Welfare Challenge so publicized this week, on Glasscityjungle.



Its official, I love blogging and glasscityjungle.

LisaRenee - Thoughtful and insightful as always, we can wrestle with the fundamental belief system at length.

Liz -- GREAT response for the most part. See it is possible to respectfully disagree, debate, and banter about FACTS. I challenge many of your facts and assertions, but still GREAT COMMENT.

My screenname is ironic, sarcastic, and true to the stereotype of my profession. My post intentionally picked unhealthy McD's as an illustrative example which some seemed to miss, must not have watched "Fast Food Nation" or simply did not care to comment on.

"Family living on minimum wage." Liz said.

Entry level jobs are not meant to and should not be perceived as designed to support a family. Unfortunately, entry level jobs are now described as "minimum wage" jobs. Toledo takes it further to require a "living wage" be paid for positions that largely are filled by unskilled, uneducated workers. Thus forcing up costs for employers, squeezing out young, dedicated, hard working youth who traditionally took those jobs and were willing to learn a trade or skill at those jobs.

Toledo living wage, $10.57 an hour. 10.57 X 40 hours X 4 weeks = $1691.20

Ohio minimum wage - $6.85 X 40 X 4 = $1096.00.
Michigan minimum wage - 7.40 X 40 X 4 = $1184.00

So one person, working one full time job, and one half time job, can earn $2000 a month. And, in Ohio, would qualify for many public assistance programs. Ohio recently increased its child health care minimum requirements to twice the federal poverty standards, making the children in a family of 4, who's parents make more the $60,000 a year, eligible for Ohio's child medicaid.

All of this ignores the pure political grandstanding nature of the $21.00 challenge.

Thanks for reading...keep on blogging.

The A-Hole.

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