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To: jlallen who started this subject	9/3/2001 10:11:27 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) of 59480

Labor Day is a commie holiday, so we shouldn't formally observe it, but it's a good day to consider the people who the social contract doesn't include. Barbara Ehrenreich went "undercover" and worked various jobs at near minimum wage to try and find out how low wage workers make ends meet. What does she conclude? No surprises here. Even for a worker holding two jobs, wages are too low, housing costs too high for minimally decent survival. ''In the rhetorical buildup to welfare reform, it was uniformly assumed that a job was the ticket out of poverty and that the only thing holding back welfare recipients was their reluctance to get out and get one.'' But if a living wage for one adult and two children is, according to the Economic Policy Institute, $30,000 a year, a total calculated to include no luxuries unless health insurance and licensed child care are considered luxuries, this amount will never be provided by the private sector to entry-level workers. Review nytimes.com Chapter 1 nytimes.com

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