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Old 01-31-2005, 08:22 AM   #26 (permalink)
drakers
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pan6467
When Ohio's top 2 employers are Wal*Mart and Kroger and both pay less than $9 an hour (Wal*Mart's highest pay is $7.00, Kroger pays $6.50 to start.) In both cases true raises are almost unheard of... roughly 25 cents an hour. Both hire part-time and neither has true benefits (Kroger's does but it is very very hard to get F/T and once they break their union then it's over.)

So while it is true easy money doesn't grow on trees, wages are becoming an extremely volatile issue, we cannot keep a positive growing economy when wages move backwards.
Great point PAN6467!
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