CNN Your Money February 15, 2014 14:31:00
Amazon is hiring 12,000 warehouse workers to sort and pack and ship. amazon says these jobs have benefits that pay 30% more than retail jobs. that is about $13 an hour. far less than the middle class jobs we lost in the recession. look, i will never knock a company for creating a job, but these are not jobs you can raise a family on. two of the fastest growing occupations are personal care aides and home health aides. median pay of $20,000 a year with no benefits. how do we fix it? our leaders are fighting over the minimum wage, but that doesn't address the problem. millie silva is the head of...
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