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Re:What’s Behind the Ballooning Upper Middle Class? Education by taivare on Sunday July 17, 2016 @03:34PM (#12111416)
The new hires at the G.M. plant in Lordstown Oh. are only starting at $15.hr.They now have the line separated by a fence new hires on one side old-timers on the other , the old timers are making between $28. to $38. hr , last I heard . . so really by old standards only the old guys our comfortably still middle class.
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Re:What’s Behind the Ballooning Upper Middle Class? Education by Broken_Hippo on Sunday July 17, 2016 @08:24PM (#12112582)
And they have more applicants than job openings, and folks willing to put in lots of overtime because the car factories are the best jobs in the area. If the factory dies, the town dies. They are probably still catered to with discount apartments and other such things.
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