California is a state that hands illegals BILLIONS in welfare and MILLIONS of jobs…. To keep wages depressed. IT WORKS!!!
Many UC workers struggle to feed themselves and
their families, study shows
An Occidental College
study found that seven in 10 employees struggle to feed themselves and their
families.
Teresa Watanabe
Seven in 10 University of California workers in
clerical, administrative and support services struggle to put adequate food on
the table, according to a new Occidental College study.
The study, released Monday, found that 45% of 2,890
employees surveyed throughout the 10-campus UC system went hungry at times. An
additional 25% had to reduce the quality of their diet.
The
problems persisted even though most of those surveyed were full-time employees
with college degrees and average earnings of $22 an hour.
Peter
Dreier, an Occidental professor of politics who conducted the study with two
colleagues and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 2010, said the
results were startling.
“This is a systemwide problem; it exists on
every campus,”
Dreier said. “This is not a handful of people who happen to be
down on their luck. They need a living wage so they can
afford to feed their
families.”
This is a systemwide problem; it exists on every
campus.— Peter Dreier,
professor of politics at Occidental College
UC
spokeswoman Dianne Klein said she could not comment on the study because she
had not yet seen it and could not assess its methodology. She added that UC is
currently in contract talks with the Teamsters and that “issues such as higher
wages should be negotiated at the bargaining table.”
The
food problems among UC workers were even higher than those found among students
in a separate university study in June.The survey of nearly 9,000 UC students
found that 42% did not have a consistent source of high-quality, nutritious
food.
UC President
Janet Napolitano, in conjunction with the student survey’s
release, announced a $3.3-million effort to expand the fight against
campus malnutrition. Each campus was to receive $151,000, adding to the
$75,000 each received last year to build what officials said would be the
nation’s most comprehensive, systematic plan to tackle the problem.
Campus
projects include expanding food pantries, emergency funding, budget cooking
lessons and donations of excess dollars on student meal plans.
Dreier
said California’s high housing costs make it difficult for workers to feed
themselves and their families adequately. A 2013 California Budget Project
study found that single-parent families with two children needed $74,000
annually, or nearly a $36-an-hour wage, just to make ends meet. A two-parent
household with two children needed about $61,000, while a single
adult needed about $33,000.
Joseph
Meyer, a 31-year-old administrative assistant at UC Berkeley, earns nearly $20
an hour but said he skips breakfast and sometimes additional meals to have
enough money for his asthma medications. His $1,150 monthly rent eats up more
than half of his $2,100 monthly take-home pay.
When
the money is close to running out, he said, it becomes “Top Ramen week.”
Catherine
Cobb made just under $25,000 annually as a housing coordinator and medical
administrative assistant at UC Irvine from 2001 to 2014. That wasn’t
enough to feed her and her son, so she would furtively take food from
university events. A friend noticed her struggles and began buying her lunch.
“I
didn’t want to talk about it because I was ashamed,” Cobb said. “Who wants to
tell people they can’t make it?”
The
study by Occidental College’s Urban and Environmental Policy Institute also
found:
-- About
9 in 10 single-parent households reported food insecurity.
--
Food insecurity rates were higher among women (71.3%) than men (65.8%).
--
About 8 of 10 African Americans and Latinos, and 6 of 10 whites and Asians
struggled with food insecurity.
--
Nearly 70% had difficulty concentrating on work at times because of hunger.
--
About 80% had to choose between buying food and paying rent or utilities.
SOARING POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT UNDER OBAMA’S OPEN
BORDERS POLICIES.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/10/millions-of-americans-legals-unemployed.html
HILLARY WILL HAND 40 MILLION LOOTING MEXICANS AMNESTY,
AMERICAN JOBS AND BILLIONS IN WELFARE.
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS:
IT WORKS! BUT ONLY FOR THE
SUPER RICH!!!
"The same period has seen a massive growth of social
inequality, with income and wealth concentrated at the very top of American
society to an extent not seen since the 1920s."
"He
(Trump) is able to get a hearing because millions of people are being
driven into economic insecurity and poverty while the rich and
the super-rich continue to amass obscene levels
of wealth. He is able with some success to divert mass discontent
along reactionary nationalist and racialist channels precisely
because what passes for the “left” in American politics,
anchor by the Democratic Party, has moved ever further
to the right, culminating in the Obama administration which
has presided over endless war and an unprecedented redistribution of
wealth from the bottom to the top of the economic ladder."
A NATION IN BORDER MELTDOWN:
MILLIONS OF JOBS TO ILLEGALS
AND BILLIONS IN WELFARE
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE AMERICA’S POPULATION
IMMIGRANT SHARE OF ADULTS QUADRUPLED IN 232
COUNTIES
"More than
728,000 illegal immigrants have been shielded from being deported
and
granted work
permits through President Barack Obama’s 2012 executive amnesty
program, according
to the Migration Policy Institute."
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS:
You were wondering how many jobs went to illegals and how well Obama’s crony
banksters have done???
The sputtering economic recovering under President Obama, the last
to follow a major recession, has fallen way short of the average recovery and
ranks as the worst since the 1930s Great Depression, according to a new report.
Had the recovery under Obama been the average of the 11 since the
Depression, according to the report, family incomes would be $17,000 higher,
six million fewer Americans would be in poverty, and there would be six million
more jobs.
SOARING
POVERTY AND DRUG ADDICTION UNDER OBAMA
"These
figures present a scathing indictment of the social order that prevails in
America, the world’s wealthiest country, whose government proclaims itself to
be the globe’s leading democracy. They are just one manifestation of the human
toll taken by the vast and all-pervasive inequality and mass poverty
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS
TO SERVE THE SUPER RICH:
The slow and painful death of America that dominates
American society."
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS pounds America’s youth as they build a border
to border Mexican welfare state on our backs!
AMERICA’S YOUTH STARVE
…… ILLEGALS SUCK IN
BILLIONS IN WELFARE… they also get our jobs!
The new reports show that in addition to “traditional” coping strategies
of skipping meals and eating cheap food, these teens and pre-teens are
increasingly forced into shoplifting, stealing, selling drugs, joining a gang,
or selling their bodies for money in a struggle to eat properly.