Again and again, we see poverty is about lack of choice.
A new study reveales that the employees that make the least amount of money are often cheated even out of that.
The study found that 26 percent of the workers had been paid less than the minimum wage the week before being surveyed and that one in seven had worked off the clock the previous week. In addition, 76 percent of those who had worked overtime the week before were not paid their proper overtime, the researchers found.
It is apparently not enough that you get a job – then you have to watch the people who are paying you. Of course, the thing is, these people are people who need the job the most, and are thus least likely to raise too much stink with their boss, who might just decide he needs someone who will complain less. n other words, they have no choice but to accept being cheated.
I am a displaced homemaker and for the last few years I have stuggled to gain skills and find work, and I have had employers bounce pay checks, and flat out not pay me, I came in one day to find I had a pay cut, and my hours all rearanged, no matter how hard I work I seem to loose ground every year. I am going to school and untill I lost my job was working well over 40 hours but cant find help or even money for school. I dont understand it, in an area with so many churches why is there so little help.