Let’s Change The System
The Target near me is hiring — starting at $12 an hour. Fed Ex is too, as the sign on Beekmann Road pointed out. Pay rate: $12.60 an hour. In general, warehouse and other manual labor jobs listed for the area (Central Jersey) on Craig’s List are paying the same — $12 an hour. Or there is a job for a machine set-up operator — $15 an hour, entry level.
People are hiring and the economy, one might assume, is taking flight. But the key thing these jobs share, aside from their availability, is that they do not pay enough to keep a Central Jersey household afloat.
Read the full essay at https://medium.com/@newspoet41/economic-inequality-is-baked-in-a7908cdf89b8?source=linkShare-be003fc7798b-1537968014.
Hank Kalet 