Re:50% of All Workers Made Less than $26,000 in 2010
by Shenglong on Thursday October 20, 2011 @07:37PM
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It's the norm here in Canada too. There's a trade-off you need to make though, between making a lot of money, and making little.
My father worked three jobs when I was growing up, to support our family. He never complained about wealth inequality; he just did what he had to. Sure, it'd be nice if everyone got paid a lot of money - but since that's never going to happen, people might need to adjust what the norm is.
Re:50% of All Workers Made Less than $26,000 in 2010
by halostatue on Thursday October 20, 2011 @05:25PM
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β¦or they're doing so at more than one job.
8 hours a day is the norm here. A lot of the minimum wage workers (lower than 10$ an hour) work even fewer than the 40 hours that would constitute full time as a way to reduce businesses supposed obligation to cover healthcare / 401k / etc. I've seen in my experience many workers get cut off between 35 and 38 hours in a week to avoid this.
I would anticipate that very few people, less than 5%, of people making over 26k in the US work more than 54 hours a week... It just isn't done that way here.