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Too often, people believe homelessness is due to some type of character flaw. In reality, that’s not even close. The top causes being…
1. A lack of affordable housing
2. Unemployment
3. Poverty
4. Low wages
#homlessness#homeless#unhoused population#unhoused#affordable housing#lack of affordable housing#unemployment#poverty#low wages#living wage#raise the wage#raise the minimum wage#poverty wages#employment#lack of employment#character flaw#systemic issues#systemic problems#capitalist system#reality#addiction#addicted#cause and effect#cause#causes#current reality#in reality#data shows#data#statistics
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Can America's "sleeping giant" shake up the election? Let's hope so.
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In 2020, in Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin the Biden-Trump faceoff was really tight, close to just 3 percent. In Texas, a Republican bastion for decades, the margin was just over 5 percent. The numbers don’t lie. If voters want to vote the GOP into extinction they can do it by waking what the Rev. Dr. William Barber calls the “sleeping giant” that’s the low-wage, low-wealth multi-racial voter cohort.
That might yank the Democratic Party of Sen. Joe Manchin to the left considerably but we will have saved the republic just the same. This is too high stakes to be left to the courts.
This week in Washington at the National Press Club the Poor People’s Campaign, under the leadership of Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, announced their plans for a mass mobilization of 15 million poor and low-wealth voters nationwide ahead of November’s election. They were joined by respected pollster Celinda Lake, President of Lake Research Partners. [...]
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#unskilled jobs#classist#classism#labor work#low wages#poverty#poverty wages#fuck capitalism#anti capitalist
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“People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.”
— Sheila McKechnie
On ITV News last night I heard this phrase:
Britain’s working poor are rapidly becoming Britain’s working homeless."
What sort of country is it that cannot provide enough affordable homes for its hard working citizens?
Answer: Tory Britain
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How austerity broke Britain
“The case for austerity was presented less as an economic imperative and more as an ethical one. The UK had enjoyed many years of growth and prosperity by living beyond its means; the time had come to pay the bill. This morality tale had truly perverse consequences. A period of elite excess was twisted into a reason for popular guilt, which would legitimate punishment of the poor. On those ideological terms, at least, austerity worked: the number of food bank parcels handed out by the Trussell Trust increased by 2,612 percent under Cameron’s premiership …
“During the 1980s, the Thatcher government introduced measures designed to corrode the power of the working class and strengthen capital. The idea, as author Gregoire Chamayou agues, was to restore the ‘governability’ of society. Workers had to be reminded who was boss — and neoliberal economic policies provided the whip that would be used to beat them into submission.
“Today, austerity, combined with tighter monetary policy, is playing the same role. Lower government spending, higher taxes, and high interest rates all restrict demand, and therefore put downward pressure on wages and undermine stable employment.
“The threat of unemployment is supposed to discipline workers into accepting lower wages and avoiding strike action. The problem for the government is that working people have been subjected to so much suffering over the last decade that many feel they have little left to lose. When you can barely heat your home and put food on the table, not demanding wage increases in line with inflation seems like a greater risk than doing so.”
#austerity#welfare cuts#public spending#food banks#low wages#unemployment#strikes#unions#working class#david cameron#george osborne#margaret thatcher#conservative party#conservatives#neoliberalism#capitalism#economy#british politics#uk#politics
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If Amazon Wants to Be the ‘Earth’s Best Employer�� it Needs to Listen to Employees
Harvey, G. (2022, May 5). If Amazon wants to be the ‘Earth’s best employer’ it needs to listen to employees. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/if-amazon-wants-to-be-the-earths-best-employer-it-needs-to-listen-to-employees-182016
Geraint Harvey writes: “In his farewell letter to shareholders last year, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced a new mission for his company: ‘Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work.’ The company has since added these goals to its list of corporate values. ...But the company still has a lot of work to do. Amazon has been dogged by negative reports about working for the organization, including gender and racial bias toward workers and ‘abusive mistreatment’ by managers, an intensive pace of work leading to high incidence of worker injury and workers being underpaid.”
“So far, Amazon has vehemently opposed trade union recognition, engaging in union suppression practices, like resisting trade union recognition through coercion. For example, Amazon has been holding mandatory meetings with workers and distributing written information in a bid to influence union votes and situating mailboxes for ballots in parking lots that are near security cameras. ...At the same time, Amazon employs union substitution practices to reduce the perceived need for a union among workers, such as raising wages in response to the campaigns for union recognition.”
“Employee retention aside, trade unions play an important role in identifying operational problems and forcing management to resolve them, rather than to seek cost effective and ultimately counterproductive ‘fixes.’ In this way, trade unions impose beneficial constraints on firms through which they constrain managerial activity. For instance, unions force management to invest, rather than reduce costs, for the long term benefit of the company and its workers. If Amazon provides its employees with a meaningful involvement in the organization and a voice at work, there are implications for the nature of work elsewhere.”
Additional Information
Update on our vision to be Earth’s Best Employer and Earth’s Safest Place to Work. (2021, June 1). Amazon. https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/update-on-our-vision-to-be-earths-best-employer-and-earths-safest-place-to-work
Freeman, R. B., & Medoff, J. L. (1979). The Two Faces of Unionism. National Bureau of Economic Research. https://www.nber.org/papers/w0364
Soper, S. (2021, June 28). Fired by bot at Amazon: ‘It’s you against the machine’. Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by-bot-amazon-turns-to-machine-managers-and-workers-are-losing-out
Doucouliagos, C. (2019, May 8). Unions do hurt profits, but not productivity, and they remain a bulwark against a widening wealth gap. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/unions-do-hurt-profits-but-not-productivity-and-they-remain-a-bulwark-against-a-widening-wealth-gap-107139
Kim, E., Stewart, A., & Long, K. (2022, May 3). Insiders reveal what it’s really like working at Amazon when it comes to hiring, firing, performance reviews and more. The Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/work-at-amazon-jobs-performance-reviews-hiring-firing-interviews-warehouses-delivery-drivers
Photo source: Bumsted, R. (2022). [Photograph]. Associated Press. https://theconversation.com/if-amazon-wants-to-be-the-earths-best-employer-it-needs-to-listen-to-employees-182016
#Amazon#low wages#unionization#gender bias#racial bias#trade unions#union vote#employee voice#union suppression#union substitution practices#collective voice#algorithmic management#mimetic isomorphism
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And here we have an example of the Japanese animator's greatest enemy: the reality of extremely low wages.
Yaso Hanamura, Animeta! Volume 1
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A Depression-era law allowing employers to pay them less is widely seen as unfair. But that view isn’t unanimous in the disability community.
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Low wages at Profi supermarket and the rippling effects on family life, on the outskirts of the city.
#blue collar#profi#profi supermarket#low wages#working class#labor#mothers#grandmothers#fringe#fringe society#babushka#Timisoara
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#Japan#Companies#base pay#talent#rising prices#Finance Ministry#Survey#manufacturing sector#nonmanufacturing sector#wages#bonuses#commodity prices#motivation#labor conditions#consumer inflation#Prime Minister Fumio Kishida#household finances#global talent#low wages#OECD
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lol @ the scam of “having benefits” but those benefits don’t kick in until 30 days. my job requires a 120-day probationary period and doesn’t allow us to request off until we have been with the company for a year. 1 personal day is generiayed every quarter as long as we never use our sick days and we only have 2 freaking sick days in total lmao!! unfortunately, I have already used both after getting covid during the first month on the job 🙃
I work for the “gOveRnmEnT” btw. I haaate it here
#shit is soooooo bonkers bc when exactly do I useee my benefits??#careers#workforce#job benefits#college student#grad student#corruption#government#american politics#covid#Pop culture#Work#jobs#low wages
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The more "empowered" Disney tries to write their heroines as, the less interesting and charismatic they become, ironically.
#disney#disney heroines#txt#@ disney: can y'all pls go back to writing women like people again?#ironically though disney heroines have gradually become a punching back for their asses#specifically the princess characters. they have been more disrespected and disregarded than any other set of characters#i mean they will put all that ✊🏼 bullshit with them and have a phrase like “be strong and brave”#but then be completely missing the point of their original stories and characters#i mean the ralph breaks the internet scene highlights how low they think of them in the modern era#modern disney is waging a war on disney princesses. they are trying to distort what made them so special and shift focuses
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