ALEXANDRIA, Ky. — The bills arrive as regularly as a heartbeat at the Vories’s cozy bi-level brick house just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. It’s the paychecks that are irregular.
TYSON HAS LONG BEEN IDENTIFED WITH THE DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. Tyson Foods Faces Boycott After Firing 1,200 Americans, ‘Would Like to Employ’ 42,000 Migrants - AND BIDEN - MAYORKAS - SCHUMER HAVE USHERED OVER THE BORDER 15 MILLION TO PICK FROM.
Saturday, December 6, 2014
AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY - 'Unauthorized' Aliens With Jobs Outnumber Non-College-Grad Adults Seeking One | CNS News
'Unauthorized' Aliens With Jobs Outnumber Non-College-Grad Adults Seeking One | CNS News
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/12/obamanomics-at-work-depressed-wages-and.html
SERVING THE 1%... AMNESTY, IT’S
ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED
*
Income inequality
grows FOUR TIMES FASTER under Obama than Bush .
*
In the two advanced countries with the greatest income
inequality, Spain and the United States, job
losses and wage cuts accounted for nearly all the increase in inequality.
OBAMAnomics at work: Depressed Wages and Soaring Poverty - We still are forced to pay for Mexico's welfare state in our borders!
STAGGERING
ACCUMULATION OF
WEALTH BY THE WEALTHY UNDER
BARACK OBAMA.
The American
middle-class pays the cost!
ILLEGALS GET THE JOBS IN AMERICA... how much easier for them when Obama's amnesty hoax to legalize Mexico's looting is implemented!
MORE HERE:
'Unauthorized' Aliens With Jobs Outnumber Non-College-Grad Adults Seeking One | CNS News
JEB BUSH - THE NEXT GREAT HISPANDERER:
can he sell us out to Mexican looters faster than Obama? If he wants the illegals' votes he must!
Income inequality grows FOUR
TIMES FASTER under Obama than Bush
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.
...meanwhile millions of Mexicans have jumped our borders and jobs for obamacare, LA RAZA welfare, anchor baby welfare and to vote dem for more!!!
more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast
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!
AMNESTY….LA
RAZA IS PRINTING OUT FRAUD I.D.s BY THE MILLIONS.
"They hauled them down to the border," Sakuma said.
"Three days later, they were standing in our office, but they had a
different name and a different Social Security number."
OBAMA SAYS CUT JOBLESS BENEFITS TO LEGALS AND HIRE MORE ILLEGALS…
so the vote dem!
With this cruel and callous act, Obama and the Democratic Party are prepared to join with the Republicans in condemning nearly 5 million people and their families to destitution.
TECH JOBS IN SILICON VALLEY ALL GO TO IMPORTED
CHINESE AND INDIANS... BUT THEN THEY GET ALL THE
JOBS AT BANKS AND ELSEWHERE.
POLICE DESTROY CAMP FOR HOMELESS IN SILICON
VALLEY WHERE ONLY IMPORTED CHINESE AND
INDIANS GET THE TECH JOBS.
Police breaking down huge California homeless camp - Toshiba
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce partners with Mexico and the Democrat party to WAR on the America worker and then pass along the real cost of all that “cheap” Mexican labor, the LA RAZA welfare state, anchor baby welfare and crime tidal wave to the AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS.
THE ENTIRE REASON FOR THE AMNESTY HOAX
TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING IS TO KEEP
WAGES DEPRESSED!
TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING IS TO KEEP
WAGES DEPRESSED!
“The U.S. Chamber is in the pocket of Communist China and big
companies seeking cheap labor in the United States. We think it is
morally repugnant for the chamber to pursue, as a matter of public
policy, initiatives which exploit the poor and oppressed, just so
they can keep labor costs down for their fortune 500 member
companies.”
companies seeking cheap labor in the United States. We think it is
morally repugnant for the chamber to pursue, as a matter of public
policy, initiatives which exploit the poor and oppressed, just so
they can keep labor costs down for their fortune 500 member
companies.”
LA RAZA SUPREMACIST
MARK ZUCKERBERG WANTS OPEN
BORDERS …. except for his!
MARK ZUCKERBERG WANTS OPEN
BORDERS …. except for his!
Today, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) blasted pro-amnesty billionaires whose fondness for open borders ends at the doors of their "gated compounds and fenced-off communities," noting how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bought other four houses surrounding his own just because he wanted "a little privacy."
ZUCKERBERG: AMERICA’S GREEDY LITTLE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HISPANDERING RUNTJOB!
his one man war against the AMERICAN worker!
Today, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) blasted pro-amnesty billionaires whose fondness for open borders ends at the doors of their "gated compounds and fenced-off communities," noting how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bought other four houses surrounding his own just because he wanted "a little privacy."
BILL GATES FIRES EMPLOYEES AND
THEN DEMANDS AMNESTY TO KEEP THE
MEX HORDES JUMPING OUR BORDERS!
THEN DEMANDS AMNESTY TO KEEP THE
MEX HORDES JUMPING OUR BORDERS!
tech says no to hiring AMERICANS
OPEN BORDERS AND ENDLESS HORDES OF IMMIGRANTS POURING IN IS ONLY ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED
To cite just one example, if there is a shortage of U.S. engineers, are 1.5 million Americans with engineering degrees either unemployed or working in other fields? In all too many cases, U.S. tech companies prefer foreign workers on temporary visas because they are cheaper and more exploitable than Americans.
AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!!!
It started the day Obama moved into the White House and commenced the perpetration of
his “hope & change”.
his “hope & change”.
24,639,000: Record Number of Foreign-Born Hold Jobs in U.S.
"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."
The Employment Situation of Immigrants and Natives in the Second Quarter of 2013
That President Obama would lawlessly bring in more cheap labor at the request of corporate interests at a time when tens of millions of Americans are unemployed speaks volumes.
SEN. JEFF SESSION: One of the very few in the LA RAZA-dominated U.S. senate speaking out for Americans (Legals).
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/07/sen-jeff-sessions-al-speaks-out-about.html
Story Highlights
At the highest level of the capitalist ruling elite, there are those
who understand full well that their system has entered into a crisis
that can end in only two ways: either the revolutionary overthrow
of capitalism and the expropriation of the tiny minority of
billionaires and corporate bosses by the working class; or a
counterrevolutionary bloodbath of such proportions that it would
make the crimes of imperialism in the twentieth century pale by
comparison. The ruling classes of the world are preparing
accordingly, heaping up weapons, building armies of police,
intensifying their attacks on democratic rights and spying on the
entire population of the world.
MEXICO ARE HELL BENT ON ANY DEVICE
TO PUT MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS INTO
AMERICAN JOBS... AND WELFARE ROLLS!
SEN. JEFF SESSION: One of the very few in the LA RAZA-dominated U.S. senate speaking out for Americans (Legals).
Sessions said he had to push back a little against the likes of Gates and other companies like Merck and Hewlett Packard that push for more guest-worker visas while slashing jobs for American workers. He lamented that the country has the lowest workplace participation rate since the 1970s and emphasized that "we need to create jobs for Americans first, before we bring in foreign workers to take those jobs."
The rich keep getting richer, combined net worth of America’s top 400 rises
By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, September 16
RICH GET RICHER: Forbes on Monday released its annual list of the top 400 richest Americans. Most of the top rankings didn’t change, but the fortunes of the majority of the elite club’s members grew, helped by strong stock and real estate markets.
HIGHEST TOTAL EVER: The people on the annual list posted a combined net worth of $2 trillion, up from $1.7 trillion a year ago. That marks their highest combined value ever.
STILL No. 1: Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates remains America’s richest man, taking the top spot on the list for the 20th straight year with a net worth of $72 billion, up from $66 billion a year ago.
BILLIONAIRE BILL GATES: Number One
enemy of the American worker.
enemy of the American worker.
He didn’t get rich paying legals a living wage!!!
ONE IN FIVE (LEGALS) STILL HAVE NO
WORK AFTER THE RECESSION –
Good time to hand 40 million looting
Mexicans even more of our jobs???
WORK AFTER THE RECESSION –
Good time to hand 40 million looting
Mexicans even more of our jobs???
YOUTH 25% IN POVERTY
SOARING POVERTY for AMERICANS …. is it yet time to end MEXICO’S looting in our borders?
AS HE HANDS BILLIONS OVER TO MUSLIM DICTATORS AND BUILD THE LA RAZA “THE RACE” MEX WELFARE STATE OFF OUR BACK IN OUR OWN BORDERS, OBAMANOMICS HAS REDUCED MILLIONS OF AMERICANS INTO POVERTY!
ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN MIDDLE
CLASS -
CLASS -
Since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the cumulative outstanding balance on federal direct student loans has jumped 517.4 percent.
1 in 5 children live in poverty – 1 in 5 jobs held by an illegal.
BILLIONS IN WELFARE HANDED OVER TO ILLEGALS TO
INDUCE THEM TO KEEP CLIMBING OUR BORDERS TO
KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED!
BILLIONS IN WELFARE HANDED OVER TO ILLEGALS TO
INDUCE THEM TO KEEP CLIMBING OUR BORDERS TO
KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED!
SOARING POVERTY IN AMERICA – soaring profits
for banksters and Wall Street – IS IT
OBAMANOMICS AT WORK?
for banksters and Wall Street – IS IT
OBAMANOMICS AT WORK?
REBUILDING THE AMERICAN MIDDLE
CLASS… looted by Wall Street and Mexico!
CLASS… looted by Wall Street and Mexico!
… or should we keep building the LA RAZA welfare state in our borders?
staggering poverty and unemployment for
AMERICAN youth as
AMERICAN youth as
the DEMS expand the LA RAZA Mexican welfare
state and all jobs go to illegals!
IN AMERICA THE BILLIONAIRES LIKE MARK ZUCKERBERG DEMAND BOATLOADS OF FOREIGNERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
IN AMERICA, NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!
Report details massive wealth loss for youth in US
By Nick Barrickman
18 March 2013
18 March 2013
A recent report from Washington DC-based Urban Institute (UI) shows that overall percentage of wealth in society for those in “Generation X and Y” (those in their 20s and 30s) has been consistently dropping and is currently at a level which may be unprecedented.
“Tech tycoons like Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg have gotten rich while wages in the technology sector have stagnated.”
Silicon Valley Poverty Is Often Ignored
By The Tech Hub's Elite
Silicon Valley Poverty Is Often Ignored
By The Tech Hub's Elite
TECH GIANT APPLE COMPUTER SAYS HELL NO TO PAYING TAXES and
HELL NO TO HIRING AMERIANS! KEEP THE BOATLOADS OF CHINESE AND
INDIANS COMING!
HELL NO TO HIRING AMERIANS! KEEP THE BOATLOADS OF CHINESE AND
INDIANS COMING!
Tech firms fight hiring rules in immigration bill…. NO
AMERICANS NEED APPLY!!!
Americans would "be shocked to know that
most of the H-1B visas … are going to
outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin,
D-Ill., said during a recent hearing.
- Bill provision that would require firms to post jobs for Americans is targeted
- Technology firms have spent millions on lobbying on immigration
- Judiciary Committee set to start working on bill
WASHINGTON – Technology firms, exercising new political clout on Capitol Hill, are lobbying against a measure in the leading Senate immigration bill that would make it harder for them to recruit workers from abroad without first taking steps to hire Americans for highly skilled jobs in programming, engineering and other fields.
The measure, part of a sweeping compromise bill drafted by a bipartisan group of eight senators, would require job openings to be posted on a new government website for 30 days and order companies to first extend job offers to "equally or better qualified" U.S. workers. It would give the U.S. Labor Department the power to review and challenge those hiring decisions.
Proponents say the measures are needed to curb abuses by companies who they say use the visa program to hire cheaper labor. Technology companies say the proposed rules would cripple their ability to hire the best employees from a global workforce and represent inappropriate government intrusion in internal hiring decisions.
The fight over hiring practices is part of the massive lobbying campaign underway on the immigration measure and will offer a fresh test of the technology industry's growing influence in Washington. The companies involved in the computer and Internet sectors spent nearly $140 million in lobbying last year -- more than twice the $69 million the industry poured into influencing Washington a decade earlier, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political spending.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to begin work on the bill Thursday.
The hiring battle centers on the program that grants H-1B visas, which go mostly to college-educated foreigners in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Technology companies say they face a chronic shortage of qualified workers in these fields. The United States sets an annual limit of 85,000 visas for these companies, and the competition for them is intense: This year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services opened up the application process April 1, and the cap was reached within a week.
Industry groups have made big gains in the Senate's immigration proposal. The bill, for instance, Would increase the H-1B cap to 205,000 annually. However, tech officials warn the new recruiting requirements could drive companies to move their skilled jobs overseas, rather than comply. A commonly cited example: Microsoft's decision to open a software center in Vancouver, British Columbia, after Congress failed to pass immigration legislation in 2007 that would have significantly increased the number of H-1B visas.
Under the bill, "employers are going to have an arbitrary government standard imposed on every hiring decision," said Robert Hoffman, the top lobbyist for the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade group. The proposed rule, he said, ignores subjective factors that influence hiring. "A perfect example: How does one define whether or not someone has the personality to fit into a corporate culture?" he said.
"We are not trying to change any of the fundamental policy goals that they are trying to achieve" in the Senate, Hoffman said. "We are just trying to tweak it, so that these goals and other goals, like retaining the best and brightest and growing in the United States, so that those types of goals are advanced as well."
Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, has criticized the visa program, saying it allows firms to hire "cheap indentured labor."
"The technology industry is asking the government to come in and intervene in the normal functioning of the U.S. labor market, specifically on their behalf," Hira said.
Bruce Morrison, a former Connecticut congressman who lobbies on behalf of a group that represents American engineers, said the organization will object to any effort to "dilute worker protections" as the measure moves through the Senate. "The arguments from the companies is that there aren't any Americans to take these jobs," he said, "so there shouldn't be any problem."
The biggest users of H-1B visas are not brand-name companies, but little-known staffing companies that provide foreign workers on a temporary basis to U.S. companies — including banks, health insurance companies and big retailers. Cognizant, a New Jersey-based company that employs 27,000 people in the USA, is the top user of the temporary visas, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services records show. Most of its workers come from India.
In addition, three India-based outsourcing companies rank among the top five recipients of H-1Bs, according to the federal data.
Americans would "be shocked to know that most of the H-1B visas … are going to outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., one of eight senators who drafted the immigration bill, said during a recent hearing. "They're going to these firms, largely in India, who are finding workers, engineers, who will work at low wages in the U.S."
Durbin is a driving force behind the hiring requirements in the Senate proposal.
The measure would make business harder for staffing companies dependent on foreign workers. It would impose higher fees on firms that rely on overseas employees for more than 30% of their workforce. Starting in 2016, the bill would bar granting any new temporary visas for foreign workers at companies with more than half their workers on the visas. Both measures apply to companies that employ more than 50 people.
Cognizant spokesman John Procter said he did not have a breakdown on the percentage of the company's workers in the USA on H-1B visas. He said the bill imposes an "arbitrary, detrimental restriction on the number of skilled immigrants."
"It would really change the way America does business," he said. "The company is very focused on educating legislators and making sure this language doesn't make its way into any final outcome."
Cognizant hired its first federal lobbyist in 2010 andby last year, it had spent nearly $1 million on federal lobbying, congressional records show. Its team includes Democratic power broker Heather Podesta, who did not return a telephone call. Other companies also have stepped up their political activity.
Last month, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix's Reed Hastings, Google's Eric Schmidt and other technology executives teamed up to underwrite an advocacy group to promote their views on immigration. Two of its subsidiaries began a seven-figure advertising campaign to shore up voter support for key senators in the immigration debate.
The tech industry "has clearly come of age," said Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation. "In the last decade, we've seen this tremendous recognition from Silicon Valley of the need to play in the power circles — to both protect their bottom line and to alter the political scene to their advantage."
· In the two advanced countries with the greatest
income inequality, Spain and the United States,
job losses and wage cuts accounted for nearly all
the increase in inequality.
MORE HERE:
AMNESTY: The solution to keep wages
depressed
depressed
A more recent national survey by the Federal Reserve, based
on 2013 data, suggests the problem has not only persisted as
the economy recovered but may even have worsened. More
than 30 percent of Americans reported spikes and dips in
their incomes. Among that group, 42 percent cited an
irregular work schedule; an additional 27 percent blamed a
span of joblessness or seasonal work.
on 2013 data, suggests the problem has not only persisted as
the economy recovered but may even have worsened. More
than 30 percent of Americans reported spikes and dips in
their incomes. Among that group, 42 percent cited an
irregular work schedule; an additional 27 percent blamed a
span of joblessness or seasonal work.
IBM OUTSOURCES .... paying a living wage to an American is against corporate policy!
Whether it’s through the exporting of jobs overseas or the importing of foreign workers, the hiring and lobbying practices of big business have big results. The relentless pursuit of the bottom line, whether through offshoring or packing payrolls with immigrants eager for an American job at any wage, lowers the living standard of all citizens.
H-1B VISAS – THE CONSPIRACY TO KEEP
WAGES DEPRESSED WITH ENDLESS
BOATLOADS OF FOREIGNERS IMPORTED
TO LOOT OUR JOBS
EVEN DURING AN UNEMPLOYMENT
CRISIS, BARACK OBAMA, THE DEMOCRAT
PARTY, UNIONS, WALL STREET AND
CRISIS, BARACK OBAMA, THE DEMOCRAT
PARTY, UNIONS, WALL STREET AND
MEXICO ARE HELL BENT ON ANY DEVICE
TO PUT MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS INTO
AMERICAN JOBS... AND WELFARE ROLLS!
Unsteady Incomes Keep Millions of Workers
Behind on Bills
By PATRICIA COHEN
These days, Alex Vories, 37, is delivering pizzas for LaRosa’s, though he has to use his parents’ car since he wrecked his own 1997 Nissan van on a rainy day last month. In the spring and autumn, he had managed to snag several weeks of seasonal work with the Internal Revenue Service, sorting tax returns for $14 an hour. But otherwise the family had to make do with the $350 a week his wife Erica brought home from her job as a mail clerk for the I.R.S.
“We just kind of wing it every month,” said Mr. Vories, whose unemployment benefits ran out at the end of 2013, 10 months after he lost his job answering phones at Fidelity Investments. Ever since, the family’s income has bounced up and down from one week to the next, like the basketball and his two sons play with in their driveway, next to the Kentucky Wildcats pennant planted in their front yard.
The financial volatility that the Vories grapple with is a feature of life for millions of workers whose paychecks fluctuate with the season, an hourly schedule or the size of a weekly commission.
Income variability is difficult to quantify, but studies that attempt to measure it suggest that ups and downs in income, particularly among the poorest 10 percent of American families, started to rise in the 1970s, leveled off in the early 2000s, but then increased significantly again during the recession.
A 2012 study by Daniel Sichel, an economist at Wellesley; Douglas Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office; and Karen Dynan, who now heads the Treasury Department’ Office of Economic Policy, found that “household income became noticeably more volatile between the early 1970s and the late 2000s” despite a period of increased stability throughout the economy as a whole.
A more recent national survey by the Federal Reserve, based on
2013 data, suggests the problem has not only persisted as the
economy recovered but may even have worsened. More than 30
percent of Americans reported spikes and dips in their incomes.
Among that group, 42 percent cited an irregular work schedule; an
additional 27 percent blamed a span of joblessness or seasonal
work.
2013 data, suggests the problem has not only persisted as the
economy recovered but may even have worsened. More than 30
percent of Americans reported spikes and dips in their incomes.
Among that group, 42 percent cited an irregular work schedule; an
additional 27 percent blamed a span of joblessness or seasonal
work.
The data show "a clear upward trend in income volatility,” according to a report from U.S. Financial Diaries, which is releasing on Wednesday the first results of an in-depth study of low- and moderate-income families.
In the Diaries’ research, nearly all of the 235 households studied experienced a drop in monthly income of at least 25 percent in a single year. The main culprits were reduced work hours, health problems and shifts in household size, like a needy relative coming to stay.
“Low pay is also unsteady as well,” said Jonathan Morduch, who oversees the diaries’ project. “This is a hidden inequality that often gets lost.”
That strain explains why more than three-quarters of those surveyed said financial stability was more important than moving up the income ladder.
“When you have that extra, you tend to spend more,” said Christine Chavez, a 27-year-old single mother who works for a collection agency in Bakersfield, Calif. “And when the next month comes, that extra isn’t there.”
Such insecurity sabotages the most diligent efforts to budget and save for the future and is a pressing issue for many families here in the Kentucky suburbs stretching south from Cincinnati, where corporations like Toyota, Procter & Gamble, General Electric, DHL and Fidelity run a lot of back-office operations. Amazon has seven distribution sites. EBay recently opened a fulfillment center in nearby Walton, and hired about 2,000 seasonal workers at $12 an hour.
Talia Frye, director of Brighton Family Center, a nonprofit agency in Newport, said the availability of full-time work had shrunk sharply since the 2008 financial crisis hit. “They might even be able to get a 12-, 13-, 14-dollar-an-hour job at an Amazon, or an eBay,” she said. “It’s income; it’s just not sustainable income.”
Of the more than 6,800 households that sought emergency help from Brighton last year, 71 percent had worked at some time during the year, Ms. Frye explained on a recent morning. Tables in the lobby were piled high with boxes of pizza donated by Little Caesar’s, and a neat pantry down the hall was stocked with jars of peanut butter, boxes of macaroni and cheese, cans of tuna fish and a freezer full of meat.
“They work hard,” Ms. Frye said, “and they still come up short.”
Across the country, nearly seven million people working part time would prefer full-time jobs but can’t find them. While their numbers are down from the peak a couple of years ago, these involuntary part-timers still account for 4.5 percent of the labor force, compared to an average of 2.7 percent before the recession.
Here in northern Kentucky, the Vories not only turned to the Brighton Center for food, they also applied for federal mortgage assistance, timed payments to grace periods, borrowed from family and relied on their church and friends.
They reluctantly cashed in Mr. Vories’ 401(k) retirement account, absorbing the 10 percent penalty in return for a much-needed $4,500. And they borrowed a total of $2,500 from their bank at a 10 percent interest rate.
“You think, ‘How can you afford that?' ” Mr. Vories said, “but because it’s getting our bills paid, you do.”
None of that was necessary when Mr. Vories was steadily earning $425 a week. Fidelity matched his weekly 401(k) contributions and offered good health insurance that covered most of the medical bills from 9-year-old Caleb’s severe ADHD and 6-year-old Josh’s mild autism.
They could afford the occasional night out with dinner and a movie. He was a few months away from the seven-year mark and a bump up in pay and vacation days, when he lost his job in February 2013.
Over the next 10 months, Mr. Vories said he applied for 75 jobs. Nothing.
Last December, he received a letter promising a three-month extension of his unemployment insurance, so he and Erica bought Christmas presents for the boys, a little Fender guitar for Caleb, and a drum set for Josh. But then congressional Republicans and Democrats deadlocked and no extended benefits were approved.
The take home pay for Ms. Vories, 34, took a hit because she had to buy health insurance for the family. She signed up for a higher-paying night shift from 10 p.m. to 6:30 a.m., hoping to make up for the unexpected loss of her husband’s unemployment insurance check. Despite the extra $250 a month, she had to stop after five months.
“You’re basically a zombie,” Ms. Vories said. “I saw the boys basically on Saturday, and you’re just playing catch-up.”
They reduced their church contributions. During the winter, they turned the heat down to 64 degrees. “We had one little space heater, and we would take it to whatever room we were in,” Mr. Vories said.
Still, the bills piled up. “We would get one week behind, then we would get two weeks behind, then three weeks behind,” Mr. Vories said.
Mr. Vories’s job with the I.R.S. during tax season brought home $375 a week, but it lasted only six weeks. Thanks to help from the Hardest Hit Fund, a temporary federal mortgage assistance program, they avoided losing their home.
They kept the house, but didn’t have enough money to fix the central air-conditioning that quit right before the temperature shot past 90 degrees. They closed off the family room downstairs because of the sweltering heat. Parishioners at their church lent them a couple of window units.
A few weeks later, the Vories’s 2002 Toyota Corolla quit on their way back from a church tent revival meeting. With only one car, Ms. Vories had to stop working the early shift, which had allowed her to be home in time to meet the school bus. Mr. Vories’s mother pitched in to babysit.
In September, Mr. Vories stopped by LaRosa’s pizzeria, where he got his first job at 15, washing dishes after school. He was overjoyed to hear they needed a delivery driver.
But then in mid-October, as they we were driving home from visiting family, their Nissan van was totaled in a car accident. It was a heartbreak, because they had just poured in more than $1,000, given by Ms. Vories’s parents, in repairs.
“It just feels like money down the drain,” Mr. Vories said, shaking his head.
Proud of an above-average evaluation at the I.R.S., Mr. Vories said he was hopeful he would be rehired after the new year for seasonal work, which could ultimately turn into a full-time job.
In the meantime, Mr. Vories is delivering pizzas, using his parents’ Mercury Grand Marquis.
THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT
WAGES!
"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."
UNIONS PARTNER WITH WALL STREET-OWNED BARACK OBAMA and MEXICO TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
The state of world capitalism: Labor
productivity up, real wages down
In the two advanced countries with the
greatest income inequality, Spain and the
United States, job losses and wage cuts
accounted for nearly all the increase in
inequality.
At the highest level of the capitalist ruling elite, there are
those who understand full well that their system has entered into a
crisis that can end in only two ways: either the revolutionary
overthrow of capitalism and the expropriation of the tiny
minority of billionaires and corporate bosses by the working
class; or a counterrevolutionary bloodbath of such
proportions that it would make the crimes of imperialism in
the twentieth century pale by comparison. The ruling classes
of the world are preparing accordingly, heaping up weapons,
building armies of police, intensifying their attacks on
democratic rights and spying on the entire population of the
world.
By Niles Williamson
According to the Labor Department’s latest monthly jobs report, the American economy added 321,000 jobs in November while the official unemployment rate held steady at 5.8 percent. Even though the US economy continued its streak of monthly job growth, workers’ wages continued to stagnate, seeing extremely limited growth.
Professional and business services, retail trade, health care, and manufacturing all reported significant monthly job growth in November. White collar professions lead the pack with the addition of 86,000 jobs in bookkeeping, temporary help, consulting, and computer system design, as well as architectural and engineering services. Retail businesses added 50,000 jobs in November in advance of the holiday shopping season.
Other sectors of the economy that showed strong growth were health care (29,000), manufacturing (28,000), food services and drinking places (27,000), financial activities (20,000) and transportation and warehousing (17,000). Construction continued an upward trend adding 20,000 jobs, primarily in the residential housing sector.
The US economy has added at least 200,000 jobs for 10 consecutive months, with 2.64 million new jobs in 2014. November’s job growth was much stronger than economists’ expectations of approximately 230,000, and jobs numbers from September and October were revised upward by a total of 44,000.
The class chasm in America is deepening month-by-month, as the stock market hit new record highs, with the Dow-Jones index over 18,000 and corporate profits soaring, even as workers’ wages remain stagnant.
Job growth under the Obama administration has been centered largely on the expansion of low-wage jobs in the temporary and service sectors. The Obama administration has also openly and ruthlessly pursued a policy of cutting labor costs by lowering wages, encouraging employers to offload health care benefits to Obamacare exchanges, and backing the attack on public workers’ pensions in the bankruptcy of Detroit.
On this cost-cutting basis, the Obama administration has promoted a limited revival of American manufacturing. As part of the federal bailout of the Big Three US auto companies carried out by the Obama administration, wages for new hires were slashed in half.
Despite relative job growth over the last several years, the labor force participation rate remained at 62.8 percent, the lowest it has been since 1978. The employment-to-population ratio, which measures the proportion of the working-age population that is currently employed, remained flat at 59.2 percent, still significantly below a peak of 63.4 percent in 2006.
Overall wage growth has barely outpaced the relatively low rate of inflation. The average wage has risen by 2.1 percent since November 2013, little more than the 1.74 percent rate of inflation. The average hourly wage for all employees rose by less than 0.4 percent in November, and for those in private sector production and non-supervisory jobs, average hourly wages rose by 0.2 percent.
No sector of the economy has experienced average wage growth significantly above 2 percent over the last year. Those employed in the fields of education and health care experienced a 0.5 percent decline in wages between 2013 and 2014. Those in the fields of trade, transportation, utilities, manufacturing and finance have all seen their wages stagnate.
The situation for those without work remained largely unchanged in November. The unemployment rate for teenagers was 17.7 percent, 11.1 percent for African Americans, and 6.6 percent for Hispanics. The number of long-term unemployed held steady at 2.8 million. These individuals, unemployed for 27 or more weeks, account for 30.7 percent of the unemployed. The number of involuntary part-time workers remained fixed at 6.9 million. The number of people marginally attached to the labor force, those who wanted work but had not looked in the last four weeks, was fixed at 2.1 million.
The recent fall in oil and gas prices, significantly lowering transportation costs, may account for some of the job growth as well as an increase in consumer spending in November. The average price of a gallon of gas in the United States was down to $2.70, the lowest price in approximately five years. It is estimated that if prices hold at their current levels, the average household will save approximately $600 over the next year. The price of a barrel of crude oil fell 1.7 percent on Friday to $65.63, the lowest price since 2009.
breakdown
THE GRUESOME REALITY OF THE JOBS CRISIS: No legal need apply!!!!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/10/will-amnesty-for-millions-keep-wages.html
“While the economy added an estimated 248,000 jobs and the official unemployment rate fell from 6.1 to 5.9 percent, these headline figures hide a more fundamental reality. Six years after the financial collapse of 2008, the labor market remains stagnant and an increasing portion of the population has simply given up hope of ever finding work.”
WAGES PLUMMET… and millions more
illegals are arriving soon!
illegals are arriving soon!
Low-wage males’ wages declined by an astonishing 31.2 percent, with mid-wage male
workers seeing a 16 percent drop, the study found. Workers without a high school diploma
suffered a 46.3 percent fall in wages, while workers with only a high school diploma lost 32.1
percent, and those holding a bachelor’s degree lost 4 percent. VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY?
DEMS SABOTAGE E-VERIFY NATIONWIDE!
workers seeing a 16 percent drop, the study found. Workers without a high school diploma
suffered a 46.3 percent fall in wages, while workers with only a high school diploma lost 32.1
percent, and those holding a bachelor’s degree lost 4 percent. VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY?
DEMS SABOTAGE E-VERIFY NATIONWIDE!
AMNESTY and the UNEMPLOYMENT
CRISIS FOR LEGALS: 71% of all jobs go to
foreign born, both legal and ILLEGAL!
WAL-MART: Their assault on the American worker
Wal-Mart jobs have become synonymous with poverty wages
and poor working conditions. Hundreds of thousands of
Wal-Mart workers rely on food stamps, other public
programs and food banks simply to get by, and American
taxpayers pay $6.2 billion annually to subsidize Wal-Mart's
poverty wages.
and poor working conditions. Hundreds of thousands of
Wal-Mart workers rely on food stamps, other public
programs and food banks simply to get by, and American
taxpayers pay $6.2 billion annually to subsidize Wal-Mart's
poverty wages.
President Barack Obama, Mexico and the Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA, which
operates out of the White House, announce
IMPERIAL AMNESTY:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-obama-imperial-amnesty-gop-party.htmloperates out of the White House, announce
IMPERIAL AMNESTY:
FOR LA RAZA, MEXICO and the U.S. CHAMBER of
COMMERCE, OBAMA VOWS TO SABOTAGE
E-VERIFY AND BORDER SECURITY TO KEEP
WAGES FOR AMERICANS (Legals) DEPRESSED.
OBAMA’S SECOND TERM: MASS
UNEMPLOYMENT and ILLEGALS GET
UNEMPLOYMENT and ILLEGALS GET
ALL THE JOBS
OBAMA’S ASSAULT on AMERICANS and SURRENDER to
NARCOMEX OF AMERICAN BORDERS, JOBS and LA
RAZA DREAM ACTS of WELFARE:
OBAMA VOWS TO RATCHET UP THE LIES
FOR LA RAZA
FOR LA RAZA
“Besides this, many American workers are displaced, and the oversupply of cheap foreign labor depresses the income of American workers by about $2,800 per year.”
“Scruggs points out that there are two groups favoring amnesty and an increase in legal immigration. First, the Democratic Party, that would gain millions of new voters. Second, business interests seeking an endless supply of cheap labor - who make large donations to GOP politicians. He argues that the GOP should take a principled stand against Obama's amnesty and regain the respect of American workers.”
THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT
WAGES!
"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."
FROM THE “Hope & Change” CLOWN THAT
HANDED MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS OUR
JOBS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED AND
PROFITS HIGH FOR HIS CRONIES.
HIS NAME IS LA RAZA OBAMA!
DREAMERS DREAM ACTS
AMNESTY….LA RAZA IS PRINTING OUT FRAUD I.D.s BY THE MILLIONS.
"They hauled them down to the border," Sakuma said. "Three days later, they were standing in our office, but they had a different name and a different Social Security number."
DREAM Act proposals are also a magnet for fraud. Many illegal immigrants will fraudulently claim they came here as children or that they are under 30. And the federal government has no way to check whether their claims are true or not. REP. LAMAR SMITH - ONE OF THE VERY FEW IN CONGRESS WORKING FOR AMERICANS!
UNIONS PARTNER WITH WALL STREET-OWNED BARACK OBAMA and MEXICO TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
These are self-serving lies pumped out by the ruling class
through its political servants and media apologists. Since the
financial crash of 2008, the Obama administration’s pro-
business policies of bank bailouts, virtually free money for
the banks from the Federal Reserve, wage and benefit cuts for
auto workers, corporate tax cuts and deregulation have
transferred trillions from the working class to the super-rich.
through its political servants and media apologists. Since the
financial crash of 2008, the Obama administration’s pro-
business policies of bank bailouts, virtually free money for
the banks from the Federal Reserve, wage and benefit cuts for
auto workers, corporate tax cuts and deregulation have
transferred trillions from the working class to the super-rich.
Instead, the financial oligarchy that controls the economy
and both big-business parties is determined to steal the
pensions that tens of millions need to survive and return
workers to the dark days when they labored without end until
they died.
and both big-business parties is determined to steal the
pensions that tens of millions need to survive and return
workers to the dark days when they labored without end until
they died.
OBAMA’S AMNESTY HOAX: Soaring welfare
for illegals… they already get our jobs!
for illegals… they already get our jobs!
"President Obama is going rogue, doubling-
down, and driving full speed towards a
constitutional crisis," Representative Bob
Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican who’s
chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,
said in a statement.
down, and driving full speed towards a
constitutional crisis," Representative Bob
Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican who’s
chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,
said in a statement.
The state of world capitalism: Labor
productivity up, real wages down
In the two advanced countries with the
greatest income inequality, Spain and the
United States, job losses and wage cuts
accounted for nearly all the increase in
inequality.
AMNESTY: The solution to keep wages
depressed
depressed
A more recent national survey by the Federal Reserve, based
on 2013 data, suggests the problem has not only persisted as
the economy recovered but may even have worsened.
More than 30 percent of Americans reported spikes and dips
in their incomes. Among that group, 42 percent cited an
irregular work schedule; an additional 27 percent blamed a
span of joblessness or seasonal work.
on 2013 data, suggests the problem has not only persisted as
the economy recovered but may even have worsened.
More than 30 percent of Americans reported spikes and dips
in their incomes. Among that group, 42 percent cited an
irregular work schedule; an additional 27 percent blamed a
span of joblessness or seasonal work.
Wages flat despite job growth in latest
US unemployment report
By Niles Williamson
6 December 2014
According to the Labor Department’s latest monthly jobs report, the American economy added 321,000 jobs in November while the official unemployment rate held steady at 5.8 percent. Even though the US economy continued its streak of monthly job growth, workers’ wages continued to stagnate, seeing extremely limited growth.Professional and business services, retail trade, health care, and manufacturing all reported significant monthly job growth in November. White collar professions lead the pack with the addition of 86,000 jobs in bookkeeping, temporary help, consulting, and computer system design, as well as architectural and engineering services. Retail businesses added 50,000 jobs in November in advance of the holiday shopping season.
Other sectors of the economy that showed strong growth were health care (29,000), manufacturing (28,000), food services and drinking places (27,000), financial activities (20,000) and transportation and warehousing (17,000). Construction continued an upward trend adding 20,000 jobs, primarily in the residential housing sector.
The US economy has added at least 200,000 jobs for 10 consecutive months, with 2.64 million new jobs in 2014. November’s job growth was much stronger than economists’ expectations of approximately 230,000, and jobs numbers from September and October were revised upward by a total of 44,000.
The class chasm in America is deepening month-by-month, as the stock market hit new record highs, with the Dow-Jones index over 18,000 and corporate profits soaring, even as workers’ wages remain stagnant.
Job growth under the Obama administration has been centered largely on the expansion of low-wage jobs in the temporary and service sectors. The Obama administration has also openly and ruthlessly pursued a policy of cutting labor costs by lowering wages, encouraging employers to offload health care benefits to Obamacare exchanges, and backing the attack on public workers’ pensions in the bankruptcy of Detroit.
On this cost-cutting basis, the Obama administration has promoted a limited revival of American manufacturing. As part of the federal bailout of the Big Three US auto companies carried out by the Obama administration, wages for new hires were slashed in half.
Despite relative job growth over the last several years, the labor force participation rate remained at 62.8 percent, the lowest it has been since 1978. The employment-to-population ratio, which measures the proportion of the working-age population that is currently employed, remained flat at 59.2 percent, still significantly below a peak of 63.4 percent in 2006.
Overall wage growth has barely outpaced the relatively low rate of inflation. The average wage has risen by 2.1 percent since November 2013, little more than the 1.74 percent rate of inflation. The average hourly wage for all employees rose by less than 0.4 percent in November, and for those in private sector production and non-supervisory jobs, average hourly wages rose by 0.2 percent.
No sector of the economy has experienced average wage growth significantly above 2 percent over the last year. Those employed in the fields of education and health care experienced a 0.5 percent decline in wages between 2013 and 2014. Those in the fields of trade, transportation, utilities, manufacturing and finance have all seen their wages stagnate.
The situation for those without work remained largely unchanged in November. The unemployment rate for teenagers was 17.7 percent, 11.1 percent for African Americans, and 6.6 percent for Hispanics. The number of long-term unemployed held steady at 2.8 million. These individuals, unemployed for 27 or more weeks, account for 30.7 percent of the unemployed. The number of involuntary part-time workers remained fixed at 6.9 million. The number of people marginally attached to the labor force, those who wanted work but had not looked in the last four weeks, was fixed at 2.1 million.
The recent fall in oil and gas prices, significantly lowering transportation costs, may account for some of the job growth as well as an increase in consumer spending in November. The average price of a gallon of gas in the United States was down to $2.70, the lowest price in approximately five years. It is estimated that if prices hold at their current levels, the average household will save approximately $600 over the next year. The price of a barrel of crude oil fell 1.7 percent on Friday to $65.63, the lowest price since 2009.
This “Hope and
Change” clown who was nothing more than Bush’s third and fourth terms on
steroids will continue to blame the republican party he hoped to destroy with
amnesty for 40 million looting Mexicans.
IMF report: No end to economic
breakdown
Almost six
years after the eruption of the global financial
crisis, the International
Monetary Fund has effectively ruled
out any return to the economic growth rates
that preceded
September 2008.
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