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pan6467 · 06-07-2009, 11:47 PM

I know in Ohio, which is a "right to work" state, getting unemployment is very difficult unless you are union or laid off and the company doesn't fight it. In Ohio a company can fire you for any reason and at any time and then fight your claim. Very few have the time and resources to fight long.

If we go by the U6 and add on those at less than $15 an hour I have a feeling we'd see numbers in a very high 50 percentile.

I know I make 11.20 an hour and by the time taxes (fed, FICA, Ohio, city, and whatever else), insurance and child support (and I pay less than most) comes out, even at full time, there would be no way in Hell I could make a living by myself. The cheapest apartments run at minimum $300 a month and those are in crack neighborhoods where gunshots are 24/7 (my job is in one of those).

You add student loans on to that (thankfully mine are in deferment while the interest builds), I'd be a resident at a homeless shelter.

I have always maintained that you develop a better workforce and national pride and solvency if you pay workers a livable wage. NOONE working 40 hours a week should live in poverty. This country right now has such a class gap that if actual statistics were done and people were honest, I have a feeling we'd be very close to the bottom in industrialized nations in true wealth. It's owned by a very few in this country and the Middle Class is having the plug pulled and last rites given.

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pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	I know in Ohio, which is a "right to work" state, getting unemployment is very difficult unless you are union or laid off and the company doesn't fight it. In Ohio a company can fire you for any reason and at any time and then fight your claim. Very few have the time and resources to fight long. If we go by the U6 and add on those at less than $15 an hour I have a feeling we'd see numbers in a very high 50 percentile. I know I make 11.20 an hour and by the time taxes (fed, FICA, Ohio, city, and whatever else), insurance and child support (and I pay less than most) comes out, even at full time, there would be no way in Hell I could make a living by myself. The cheapest apartments run at minimum $300 a month and those are in crack neighborhoods where gunshots are 24/7 (my job is in one of those). You add student loans on to that (thankfully mine are in deferment while the interest builds), I'd be a resident at a homeless shelter. I have always maintained that you develop a better workforce and national pride and solvency if you pay workers a livable wage. NOONE working 40 hours a week should live in poverty. This country right now has such a class gap that if actual statistics were done and people were honest, I have a feeling we'd be very close to the bottom in industrialized nations in true wealth. It's owned by a very few in this country and the Middle Class is having the plug pulled and last rites given. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"