Monday, September 2, 2013

OBAMAnomics at work - SOARING POVERTY in PENNSYLVANIA


 OBAMAnomics:
"The politicians don’t care about the working and young people. We have billions in student loan debts, but they don’t help us, but they give billions to the wealthy."
 

"The study noted that, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the US undertook policies “during the New Deal [that] permanently reduced income concentration until the 1970s.” In contrast, the study noted a striking absence of any measures to reign in social inequality in the present crisis. Far from it, the Obama administrations’ bank bailouts, austerity program and wage-cutting policies have vastly expanded the prevalence of social inequality."
 
GROWING POVERTY IN AMERICA WHERE MEXICANS GET THE JOBS WITH STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, BILLIONS IN TAX REFUNDS ON BOGUS RETURNS, OBAMACARE, ANCHOR BABY WELFARE AND DREAM ACTS OF GRINGO-PAID WELFARE… AND LA RAZA HAS THEM OUT THERE VOTING FOR EVEN MORE!


One in four Pennsylvania workers earn poverty wages

By Douglas Lyons
2 September 2013

One in four Pennsylvanian workers, and two out of three workers under 24, are paid poverty wages according to a recent report released by the Keystone Research Center.

The annual report, released On August 28, “The State of Working Pennsylvania 2013,” is authored by Mark Price and Stephen Herzenberg, who both hold PhDs in economics.

A section of the report deals with workers who receive a low, or poverty, wage. Their definition of a poverty wage is $11.19 (in 2012 dollars) for a full-time 52-week worker who has a family of four to support. This translates into annual earnings of $23,283.

The authors found that in 2012, 26 percent of Pennsylvania workers were paid below this threshold and that the portion of workers in poverty-wage jobs has increased by 2.6 percentage points since 2010.

Young workers are more likely to fall into this category. About 70 percent and 62 percent of workers between the ages of 16-24 and 20-24, respectively, received a poverty wage in 2012. For 25- to 54-year-olds 19.4 percent received a poverty wage. There was an increase in the first two groups from 2010 to 2012 of 1.2 and 2.8 percentage points, respectively, and the last age group suffered a 2.0 percentage point increase.

While grim, the statistics fail to demonstrate the full extent of poverty among Pennsylvania workers. In the first place, the report’s poverty threshold is closely aligned to the federal government’s absurdly low official poverty threshold. The Working Poor Families Project, for example, defines “Low Income Working Families” as earning double the official poverty threshold; thus a family of four would need to earn upwards of $46,000 to be out of this category.

Secondly, the report’s data on workers in poverty presumes a full-time job, even though there has been a continued expansion of part-time work since the crisis of 2007. July’s federal jobs report demonstrates the absence of quality, good-paying jobs for American workers. Low-paying restaurants, retailers, and bars supplied roughly half of the 162,000 new jobs in July. Part-time jobs amounted to over 65 percent of the jobs added last month as well. Another report noted that “over the last six months, of the net job creation, 97 percent of that is part-time work.”

Workers who do have jobs are being driven harder, even as mass unemployment remains. Christine Owens of National Employment Law Project explains that, “Corporations are reaping the financial benefits of an increasingly productive workforce, but the recent decline in wages shows that these gains are not being shared with the people actually doing the work.” The KRC report substantiates this, noting that since 1979 in Pennsylvania productivity has increased 61 percent or “15 times as much as the median wage.”

The WSWS interviewed low-wage workers in Pennsylvania to understand and expose the conditions they encounter.

Twenty-one year-old Bre, who works the bar at Longhorn Steakhouse and has had back problems because of her pregnancy, is afraid to follow the doctor’s orders and leave work because she has no savings, lives paycheck to paycheck, and doesn’t “want to beg for food or keep asking my parents for money.” Her fiancé, meanwhile, works as a cook. Their combined wages are not enough to support a family.

She makes $2.83 an hour, a typical wage for restaurant servers, relying on tips from patrons to pay the bills. On good nights, she can make more than the Federal minimum wage, but on slow nights the tips do not exceed $7.25 per hour. Her hours vary “from 30-42 hours a week, usually right around 37,” and she is “still under my mom’s insurance.” It is all too common for low-wage workers to forego health insurance because it is too expensive when juxtaposed to monthly income.

She is also hoping that her parents can aid her financially for childcare costs once the baby is born.

Seth Bitner, 20, attends college in Lock Haven Pa, but works part time to help support himself. “There aren’t any decent paying jobs for young people,” he said. “There are a few in the gas industry, but most people can’t get those. It is hard being a college student and working. Part-time jobs are not cutting it. The pay is not enough; $7.50 an hour doing factory work does not come close to covering my expenses.”

Seth explained that his mother is helping to pay his room and board but that he has to cover his tuition, books and other living expenses. “I take out loans, they are all in my name,” he explained. “When I get out of school, I will be loaded with debts.” In 2013, average college-related debt for an undergraduate student amounted to $35,200, according to a survey conducted by Fidelity.

Seth was not yet born when, in 1987, workers at Lock Haven’s massive International Paper Mill went on strike against wage cuts. The company hired scabs to replace striking workers, and the Democratic government under Bob Casey used National Guard to protect the scabs. The strike at Lock Haven and three other IP factories were eventually defeated after they were left isolated and betrayed by their unions. Since then the company closed the paper mill completely.

As a result, Seth says, “there aren’t any good jobs. Everything just pay’s the minimum wage or maybe a little more. Even the factory jobs pay nothing. A young person can’t live on that, let alone someone who has a family to support.”

Jonathan Weber, a low-wage worker from Pittsburgh, said, “My personal experience is you need a lot of experience to get a good paying job. I went to school for maintenance and construction, and I am not barely making the teens [$13,000]. I am still paying my student loans and I only make $14 an hour. My fiancée is pregnant and yet she still has to work. You can’t support a family on such low wages.”

Jonathan and his fiancée have one child already. The day after the WSWS spoke with him he had an interview scheduled to apply for a 30-hour per-week job. With both he would work 75 hours a week.

“I will sleep on the weekends,” he said. “I spend all the time I can with my family, but this puts a lot of stress on you. The politicians don’t care about the working and young people. We have billions in student loan debts, but they don’t help us, but they give billions to the wealthy.”
“I can’t even get on any kind of assistance or food stamps. They say $14.00 an hour is making too much. Right now we are trying to scrape by until she has the baby, and hopefully tomorrow I will have a second job. You have to do what you have to do.”


Income inequality grows four times faster under Obama than Bush

By Nick Barrickman
3 September 2013
US income inequality grew four times faster in the first three years of the Obama Administration than under Bush, according to figures published Saturday in the New York Times .

The Times reached this conclusion by comparing the median wage—which measures the income of a household in the middle of the income scale—and the average wage, which tallies all income and divides it by the number of earners. As society has grown more unequal, the average wage has grown relatively more quickly, while median wages have grown more slowly, and stagnated in real terms.
This is exactly what has happened. As the newspaper reports, “From 2001 through 2008, during the George W. Bush administration,” the ratio of mean to median income “grew at 0.28 percentage point per year. From 2009 through 2011, the latest year for which the data is available, the ratio increased 1.14 percentage points annually, or roughly four times faster.”

These figures add to earlier studies showing that growth in income during the so-called economic “recovery” has gone almost exclusively to the wealthiest layers of society. A study released earlier this year, entitled “Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States” by University of California, Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez, shows that, since the recession was officially declared to be over in 2009, 93 percent of all income gains have gone to the top 1 percent, while the incomes of the rest of the population have remained stagnant.

According to the study, since 2010 the top 1 percent of society have seen an income growth of 11.6 percent, while the rest of the population’s incomes have grown by a dismal 0.2 percent.

Similarly, though the uppermost layers of society saw a bigger hit to their incomes in the immediate aftermath of the financial collapse, their share of income growth returned to an all-time high in the following years, with the top 10 percent of society claiming nearly half of all income in 2010.

The study noted that, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the US undertook policies “during the New Deal [that] permanently reduced income concentration until the 1970s.” In contrast, the study noted a striking absence of any measures to reign in social inequality in the present crisis. Far from it, the Obama administrations’ bank bailouts, austerity program and wage-cutting policies have vastly expanded the prevalence of social inequality.

Last month the Census Bureau noted a significant growth in the percentage of households in the US which have at least one unemployed family member. The report, entitled America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012, found that from 2005 to 2011, the number of households with children under 18 where at least one parent was unemployed rose from 2.4 million to 3.2 million. In some states, the increase was much higher. Nevada had a 148 percent increase in families affected by unemployment, Hawaii had a 95 percent increase, and California had a 61 percent increase.
The report also noted that the number of households with children that owned their own homes plunged by 15 percent during the same time period.
There was also a significant increase in the number of young people living with their parents, resulting from a fall in incomes and reduced job prospects. The percent of men aged 25 to 34 living in their parents’ homes increased from 13 percent in the early 2000s to 17 percent in 2012. The report also noted that food stamp usage by children of married parents nearly tripled—from 4 percent to 11 percent—since 2002.

The so-called economic “recovery” has led to falling wages, speedups and increasingly casualized labor. The jobs which have accounted for the majority of employment since the end of the recession have been composed mainly of part-time and low-paying service industry work.

According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the period from June to July of this year, over 148,000 full-time jobs were eliminated, while in their place over 534,000 part-time positions were added.

Last year the National Employment Law Project released a report finding that 60 percent of all positions added to payrolls since 2008 have been classified as “low-wage,” paying between $7.69 and $13.83 per hour. Likewise, “middle-income jobs,” those accounting for the majority of positions lost during the financial crisis, have made up barely 20 percent of jobs added during the “recovery.”
 
JOBS – WORST UNDER OBAMA SINCE DEPRESSION!


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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/two-thirds-of-all-jobs-under-obama-go.html

DURING OBAMA’S FIRST TERM 2/3s OF ALL JOBS WENT TO IMMIGRANTS, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL. FEDERAL WORKPLACE ENFORCEMENT of LAWS PROHIBITING THE EMPLOYMENT of ILLEGALS PLUMMETED 70%... AND OBAMA - HOLDER SABOTAGED E-VERIFY EVERYWHERE THEY COULD TO EASE MORE LA RAZA INTO OUR JOBS!

 
CRONY CAPITALISM ...the rise of Barack Obama and the fall of the America middle class!

OBAMA'S ASSAULT ON AMERICA -WHY WALL STREET, ILLEGALS, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS and the 1% LOVE HIM, AND THE MIDDLE CLASS GETS THE SHAFT TO PAY FOR HIS CRONY CAPITALISM

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The goal of the Obama administration, working with the Republicans and local governments, is to roll back the living conditions of the vast majority of the population to levels not seen since the 19th century, prior to the advent of the eight-hour day, child labor laws, comprehensive public education, pensions, health benefits, workplace health and safety regulations, etc.

 (MOST OF THE FORTUNE 500 ARE GENEROUS DONORS TO THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA – IT’S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED)

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In response to the ruthless assault of the financial oligarchy, spearheaded by Obama, the working class must advance, no less ruthlessly, its own policy.


JOBS: 97% ARE PART TIME… 100% PAY MISERABLE AND OF THOSE 100% GO TO OBAMA’S LA RAZA PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS!

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IT’S WALL STREET ENDORSED OBAMANOMICS – THE ENDLESS ASSAULT ON AMERICAN WORKERS HE CALLS AMNESTY!


The White House Announces the release of Obama’s BIGGEST CON JOB assault on the AMERICAN WORKER… as Americans (legals) look around and see only Mexicans in our jobs!

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-white-house-annouces-release-of.html


HOUSING FREDDIE FRAUD LANDS ON THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASSES'  BACKS.... like all the other crimes of WALL STREET.

OBAMA’S WALL STREET-FUNDED ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS SURGES!

OBAMA’S HOUSING CON-JOB… IT’S ALWAYS ABOUT WALL STREET.. HOW HE CAN SERVICE HIS BANKSTER DONORS, THE 1% AND LA RAZA ILLEGALS.


As with all other initiatives Obama has undertaken, from healthcare, to immigration, to education “reform,” the basic parameters of his policies have been tailored to suit the interests of Wall Street and big business, while couched in the language of helping the “middle class,” combating inequality, and creating jobs.

THE MAN THAT CALLED IT “CHANGE” AND BECAME BUSH’S THIRD and FOURTH TERMS!


OBAMA THE BIGGEST FAILURE IN AMERICAN HISTORY!


THE ABYSMAL FAILURE OF BARACK OBAMA – THE BIGGEST CON JOB IN AMERICAN HISTORY, AND BUSH’S THIRD and FOURTH TERMS… A MAN REELECTED BY ILLEGALS AND FUNDED BY CRIMINAL WALL STREET BANKSTERS!

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-failed-presidency-of-bankster-owned.html

WHAT IS OBAMA’S TRUE AMNESTY AGENDA? TO HAND AMERICAN OVER TO 40 MILLION MEXICANS and EXPAND THE LA RAZA MEXICAN WELFARE STATE? OR TO DESTROY THE GOP WITH 40 MILLION NEW UNREGISTERED DEMS VOTING TO EXPAND LA RAZA SUPREMACY IN AMERICA??? 

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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/07/will-obamas-amnesty-hoax-destroy-gop-or.html

MEX WITH 37 CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS FINALLY DEPORTED… wonder if he’s back looting already???

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In FY 2012, ICE says it removed 409,849 illegal aliens. Fifty-five percent of them (or 225,390) were convicted criminal aliens, the largest number of criminal aliens removed in agency history, ICE said.


SOCIAL SECURITY

OBAMA VOWS MASSIVE CUTS IN SOCIAL SECURITY TO OFFSET THE DEMS’ LA RAZA MEXICAN WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA… ILLEGALS ALSO GET OUR JOBS!

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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/obama-cuts-social-security-to-pay-for.html

OBAMA’S ASSAULT ON AMERICANS (LEGALS)

OBAMA AND OBAMA DONOR SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN LOOT MEDICARE

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 there are now 400 people who have more wealth than the bottom 150 MILLION! these people not only own the economy, they own the fucking politicians! not a single billionaire in America does not want obama’s amnesty hoax, no E-VERIFY, and open borders to keep wages depressed!

CRONY CAPITALISM ...the rise of Barack Obama and the fall of America!

OBAMA'S ASSAULT ON AMERICA -WHY WALL STREET, ILLEGALS, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS and the 1% LOVE HIM, AND THE MIDDLE CLASS GETS THE SHAFT TO PAY FOR HIS CRONY CAPITALISM

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CEO pay is higher than ever, as is the chasm separating the rich and super-rich from everyone else. The incomes of the top 1 percent grew more than 11 percent between 2009 and 2011—the first two years of the Obama “recovery”—while the incomes of the bottom 99 percent actually shrank.

Meanwhile, Obama is pressing forward with his proposal, outlined in his budget for the next fiscal year, to slash $400 billion from Medicare and $130 billion from Social Security… AS WELL AS WIDER OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY, NO LEGAL NEED APPLY TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED

The goal of the Obama administration, working with the Republicans and local governments, is to roll back the living conditions of the vast majority of the population to levels not seen since the 19th century, prior to the advent of the eight-hour day, child labor laws, comprehensive public education, pensions, health benefits, workplace health and safety regulations, etc.

In response to the ruthless assault of the financial oligarchy, spearheaded by Obama, the working class must advance, no less ruthlessly, its own policy.

CALIFORNIA – MEXICO’S $22 BILLION DOLLAR WELFARE STATE


CALIFORNIA IS A LOOTED COLONY OF MEXICO. THE LA RAZA-CONTROLLED STATE LEGISLATURE PASSES LAW AFTER LAW THAT BENEFITS ILLEGALS AND ENCOURAGES MORE OF THEM TO HOP OUR BORDERS.

DEMS and MEXICO BUILD THE LA RAZA MODERN SLAVE and WELFARE STATE IN MEXIFORNIA – HOME OF THE LA RAZA ANCHOR BABY FACTORIES!

ONE-HALF OF CA IS NOW MEXICAN. NEARLY ONE-THIRD OF THE POPULATION LIVES BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL!


 THE STATE PAYS OUT $22 BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS, WITH COUNTIES PAYING OUT EVEN MORE. MEX-INFESTED LOS ANGELES PAYS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY MEXICAN ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS.

Low-Income Workers Fleeing California

Wall Street Journal reporter Allysia Finley on low-income people fleeing California, in addition to the rich.


Most Illegal Immigrant Families Collect Welfare… ALL GET AMERICAN JOBS???

April 05, 2011

Surprise, surprise; Census Bureau data reveals that most U.S. families headed by illegal immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare programs on behalf of their American-born anchor babies.


CRIMES AGAINST AMERICA: Barack Obama, His Criminal Banksters and the Mexican drug cartels

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 “I’m not here to punish banks!” Barack Obama in the faces of the American People his bankster donors looted – State of the Union Message

“Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).”

WEALTHY WANT MORE OF THE 1% PRESIDENT

The Fall of Barack Obama and the End of his Con Jobs and lies!

WEALTHY and ILLEGALS PUSH FOR AN OBAMA THIRD TERM.

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The legacy of the man that punked American and called it “CHANGE” will be the unbridled looting from his bankster donors, and the staggering expansion of the LA RAZA SUPREMACY Mexican welfare state in America.

OBAMA’S WALL STREET and the LOOTING of AMERICA – SECOND TERM

“The response of the administration was to rush to the defense of the banks. Even before coming to power, Obama expressed his unconditional support for the bailouts, which he subsequently expanded. He assembled an administration dominated by the interests of finance capital, symbolized by economic adviser Lawrence Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.”


PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: WALL STREET’S RENT BOY!


CRIMES AGAINST AMERICA: Barack Obama, His Criminal Banksters and the Mexican drug cartels

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“I’m not here to punish banks!” Barack Obama in the faces of the American People his bankster donors looted – State of the Union Message

“Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).”

MIAMI CONSULATE WORKS FOR OBAMA PROGRAM TO PUT MORE ILLEGALS IN AMERICAN JOBS

Obama Administration Makes Secret Deal With Mexico

Obama Administration Makes Secret Deal With Mexico - Mexican Consulates are headquarters for the MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA with the agenda of expanding the Mexican welfares state with cooperation of Barack Obama and the Democrat party.
 

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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/obamas-la-raza-mexican-economy-for-wall.html

 

THIS IS SHOCKING!!!

 
To Help Illegal Immigrants In The Workplace AND LOOT AMERICA EASIER!


The danger, as Washington Post economics columnist Robert Samuelson argues, is that of “importing poverty” in the form of a new underclass—a permanent group of working poor.

THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!  

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/03/assualt-on-american-worker-joe-legal-vs.html

 
"We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers," said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. "President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws." REP. LAMAR SMITH – OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!

 
 

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