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Let’s Talk: “A Job is A Job”
“A job is work you perform to earn money to support your basic needs”
I've heard time and time again that just by having a job that automatically
puts you in a different social level in society “The working Class”.
working for a job 40–60 hours a week you should be able to support all your basic needs as they say right?
but in most cases, it doesn't unfortunately people are working jobs with full time hours, even 2 jobs at a time and still need assistance from the government.
Is working a job 40–60 hours a week really worth the hard labor, long hours away from family and mental and physical strain that it puts on your body?
“Problem with “A Job is A Job”
when we get jobs, the overall goal is that all our needs will be meet with having a job and a lot of times it's not meet at all.
Ideally, A job is suppose to cover our rent or mortgage payments, car note, gas, Eletric bills and food expenses, right?
Over 41. 2 million people in the United States receive Snap benefits, having a job is still not meeting basic needs with even having food in our homes. Over 5.2 million people have section 8 vouchers, and 1.1 million people live in public housing. So, if people didn't have section 8 vouchers and…
