I have been saying this for quite some time. America needs a raise. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-minimum-wage-sets-record-for-length-with-no-increase/ On Sunday, the federal minimum wage will reach a new milestone: Since the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced a national baseline pay after the Great Depression, it will have been nine years, 10 months and 23 days since Congress last increased it -- a record. https://splinternews.com/the-reveng...rofessors-1835381061?utm_source=pocket-newtab “Two half-time adjunct jobs do not make a full-time income. Far from it,” Ximena Barrientos says. “I’m lucky that I have my own apartment. I have no idea how people make it work if they have to pay rent.” We are not sitting on a street corner, or in a welfare office, or in the break room of a fast food restaurant. We are sitting inside a brightly lit science classroom on the third floor of an MC Escher-esque concrete building, with an open breezeway letting in the muggy South Florida air, on the campus of Miami Dade College, one of the largest institutions of higher learning in the United States of America. Barrientos has been teaching here for 15 years. But this is not “her” classroom. She has a PhD, but she does not have a designated classroom. Nor does she have an office. Nor does she have a set schedule, nor tenure, nor healthcare benefits, nor anything that could be described as a decent living wage. She is a full-time adjunct professor: one of thousands of members of the extremely well-educated academic underclass, whose largely unknown sufferings have played just as big a role as student debt in enabling the entire swollen College Industrial Complex to exist. Wonders which party will step up to the plate for American workers.
Sort of off-topic, but in my experience even tenured professors don't have a 'designated classroom'. The concept doesn't make much sense. barfo
The only way a raise of wages truly works is if inflation is capped for awhile, otherwise inflation will just go up, and it won't matter.
Even as a conservative, I think there needs to be rent caps, cost of living needs to go way down in this state so families can survive and flourish. Too much greed is going on from property owners.
Way too much greed. The result of which will be collapse of the economy in Oregon. People can only afford so much before they can't. Hence the growing homeless population. Too much greed.
Wow! It just blows my mind to see people actually wanting a wage increase from politicians. Where in hell did they learn this???
Just a response with no criticism of your posts. Wages have been kept way too low all across America for decades now and it is only getting worse. If they hadn't been inflation would already have been factored in and Americans would be enjoying the fruits of their labors... with their employers, instead of needing a hand out from the government. Wages must increase along with, as well as being at an even rate with or above, the rise in inflation or you end up with citizens who can't afford to live. Currently corporations are raking in record profits, have been for more than a decade now (if memory serves me). America is humming, as the saying goes. The economy is good, the unemployment rate is very low, and yet nearly 50% of Americans can't afford their basic needs. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/almost-half-of-americans-cant-pay-for-basic-needs/ Americans are not "humming" along with their country. The gap between the rich and poor is ever widening here in America.
Businesses deserve to make a fair profit, their employees deserve fair wages to live on. Currently here in America wages are being held too low for many Americans to thrive... along with the businesses they work for, which is leading to more and more poverty. It seems to me that Americans should thrive, along with the businesses they work for. American businesses are thriving right now, Americans are not. America has the largest economy in the world, it can afford to pay fair, living wages to American workers.
My impression, and maybe I should have read the whole article and not just the excerpt posted here, was that the author thought that college professors typically had their own classroom used just for their own classes. barfo
