06.20.13
Conservative Utopia, WhiteManistan
Germane to Kansas’ turn to the neo-Confederate extreme right,
a piece on expanding suburban poverty in the state:
The problem is, almost no jobs pay well, especially in the fields that are growing in areas like Johnson County. “The basic point is that we’re a low wage country,??? Peter Edelman, the Georgetown law school professor and poverty expert, said when I spoke to him. “People ought to make more money from working.???
It is a sentiment I’ve heard over and over, from experts and from people who live in communities with a rising population of poor families.
If people are working [in Kansas], they’re in the low-wage service sector and there is nowhere for them to move up,” it reads.
The concluding line:
“I’ve said all along that we need to tell the American consumer to stop demanding the lowest price always and stop demanding the highest return on their investment dollar,??? she says. “If not, we are going to continue to see all these non-living-wage jobs.???
It is a little too late, just like everything else.
One should read the “comments” for the immediate arrival of the trolls who attribute all the terrible statistics to either myth or the tyranny of the federal government.
