Comments by "SciFi Realism" (@scifirealism5943) on "Americans Selling THEIR BLOOD To Make Ends Meet" video.

  1. That is correct.
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  2. That's another thing that needs to be changed. Mandate that companies have to offer benefits to all employees regardless of the number of hours they work. Because as it stands it's more expensive for them to employ 2 40-hour week people with benefits than 4 20 hour a week workers without benefits. If you mandated benefits across the board part-time work would disappear overnight.
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  3.  @pettyofficer30  $24/hr may be great if homes weren't $450,000 and above. If tuition wasn't $18,000/yr.
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  4. I'd feel rich if I made $21 an hour. Not that that would be anywhere near enough to buy a house here but still.
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  5. Not even close. In the '70s you only needed to work a few hundred hours to be able to pay for a year of college on minimum wage. You'd need to work 5600 hours now, or close to three years. I would need to make $78 an hour to be able to afford college in state. And that would be only for one year of college, nowhere near enough for a full ride.
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  6. Getting financial aid is next to impossible because you have to have both good grades and enroll full-time. Less than 1% of scholarships are full rides.... most barely pay the cost of a single semester even at just a trade school. I work as a cashier and I would need to make $60 an hour to be able to support a family of four on my own. There are no positions for most of us minimum wage workers to work our way up to so we're stuck in this low-wage job. Then I'm in an internship and I'm dealing with "temping," where I get paid minimum wage and I have to agree to it based on the idea that if things go well I'll be made full time.
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  7. It sucks mate. I'm living in a state with the 7.25 minimum wage, no Medicaid expansion leaving millions without health care that are poor. Unaffordable college, and most scholarships are not able to cover the full ride. And then there is at will employment.
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  8. That's messed up
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  9. I know. I feel their pain.
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  10.  @jeffw1267  or mandate that the healthcare is provided by the government instead of the employer and just allow employers to pay for all of the other benefits that are cheaper.
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  11. I hate America. I work as a cashier at a supermarket, I make $10 an hour. Now if this was the 1950s that'd be fine but with homes and car prices now I can't afford to live on my own. I still live with my family. I can't stand watching Fox News because they bash minimum wage workers like myself calling me lazy. Yeah none of these Fox News or conservative pundits explain to me how working your way up on a minimum wage job gives you a 50-cent raise per year if that and that there are not enough jobs for all of us to move up to The truth of the matter is many entry-level jobs are dead end. It isn't true that we can all move up to management.
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  12.  @markgigiel2722  I'm sorry for my rant
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  13.  @gtt8428  I make $10/hr as a cashier at a supermarket. It costs $50 for a round trip in a cab. I make $46 a day. A meal costs $11.75. so more than what I make per hour.
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  14. We still don't even have a $15 minimum wage.....
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  15.  @hertfordable  A family of seven? I looked up it, for me to raise just a family of four on my own I would need to make $60 an hour. Not only is no minimum wage job paying that most jobs don't pay that period. 60% of Americans make as a household $75,000 a year or less, so tens of millions of people don't make anywhere near enough to raise seven kids. What am I supposed to do to make $60/hr? become a nuclear engineer? (I'm not angry at you. But the government )
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  16. Getting financial aid is next to impossible because you have to have both good grades and enroll full-time. Less than 1% of scholarships are full rides.... most barely pay the cost of a single semester even at just a trade school. I work as a cashier and I would need to make $60 an hour to be able to support a family of four on my own. There are no positions for most of us minimum wage workers to work our way up to so we're stuck in this low-wage job. Then I'm in an internship and I'm dealing with "temping," where I get paid minimum wage and I have to agree to it based on the idea that if things go well I'll be made full time.
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  17.  @Brave2standalone  that's the neat part! NOTHING!
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  18. I want corporations to be taxed 5x the amount their employees used in welfare benefits.
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  19. Hobbies? I work as a cashier at a supermarket. I make $10/hr. I make $46 a day and it costs $50 to take a cab to/from there. So I don't make enough to even show up.
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  20.  @waynejohanson1083  if only.
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  21. The irony of your statement is you couldn't work 80 anyway because then you'd be offered benefits. You'd need TWO full-time jobs to work 80 hours a week.
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  22. I work as a cashier, enrolled in community college, and do a mathematics-physics internship. I make $10 an hour which isn't enough to even afford a cab to travel to and from work, I certainly don't make enough to afford rent. My college doesn't pay for living expenses. My nternship pays $15 an hour at 4 hours a week so I can't survive off of that either. So I would either somehow need to get financial aid, which wouldn't cover the whole cost of college anyway. I somehow would need to get a full ride scholarship, even though less than 1% of students get a full ride scholarship. Or I would somehow have to work 10 internships at once or make $150 an hour as an intern.
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  23.  @jeffw1267  The point is there are very few full-time workers to begin with.
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  24. I am feeling some pain in America. I work as a cashier at a supermarket, I make $10 an hour. Now if this was the 1950s that'd be fine but with homes and car prices now I can't afford to live on my own. I still live with my family. I can't stand watching Fox News because they bash minimum wage workers like myself calling me lazy. Yeah none of these Fox News or conservative pundits explain to me how working your way up on a minimum wage job gives you a 50-cent raise per year if that and that there are not enough jobs for all of us to move up to The truth of the matter is many entry-level jobs are dead end.
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  25.  @everythingmatters6308  yeah. I wish I had a scholarship.
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  26. I am feeling some pain in America. I work as a cashier at a supermarket, I make $10 an hour. Now if this was the 1950s that'd be fine but with homes and car prices now I can't afford to live on my own. I still live with my family. I can't stand watching Fox News because they bash minimum wage workers like myself calling me lazy. Yeah none of these Fox News or conservative pundits explain to me how working your way up on a minimum wage job gives you a 50-cent raise per year if that and that there are not enough jobs for all of us to move up to The truth of the matter is many entry-level jobs are dead end.
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  27. I believe poverty is a policy choice.
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  28.  @everyone2975  that's messed up.
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  29. I am feeling some pain in America. I work as a cashier at a supermarket, I make $10 an hour. Now if this was the 1950s that'd be fine but with housing and car prices now I can't afford to live on my own. I still live with my family. I can't stand watching Fox News because they bash minimum wage workers like myself calling me lazy. Yeah none of these Fox News or conservative pundits explain to me how "working your way up" on a minimum wage job gives you a 50-cent raise per year-if that-and that there are not enough jobs for all of us to move up to. The truth of the matter is many entry-level jobs are dead end.
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  30.  @3rdEyeWide  so that's still a poverty wage then.
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  31.  @3rdEyeWide  I don't understand why the minimum wage isn't $35/hr USD.
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  32. Politicians would get beat up.
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  33.  @judykraska400  If I had the power I would give corporations a choice: either I would tax them five times the amount their employees used in welfare benefits or I would tax them five times the amount their employees have in consumer debt.
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  34. I am feeling some pain in America. I work as a cashier at a supermarket, I make $10 an hour. Now if this was the 1950s that'd be fine but with homes and car prices now I can't afford to live on my own. I still live with my family. I can't stand watching Fox News because they bash minimum wage workers like myself calling me lazy. Yeah none of these Fox News or conservative pundits explain to me how working your way up on a minimum wage job gives you a 50-cent raise per year if that and that there are not enough jobs for all of us to move up to The truth of the matter is many entry-level jobs are dead end.
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