If you live here was their any doubt.
Number 1
Florence is listed about middle of the article.
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How very sad.
Slowest wage growth:
1. Florence-Muscle Shoals, Ala.
Wage growth: 0.1%
Slowest wage growth:
1. Florence-Muscle Shoals, Ala.
Wage growth: 0.1%
Expected. The area is service oriented (restaurants, banks, shopping). Personal income from those type businesses usually remains sub par.
Why would an industry locate here? The Shoals is a strong union area and there are other areas in Alabama that are not.
The thing that is really sad is in 2007 - 2008 the economy was booming.....and the shoals area is dead last in the nation.
You would think this would wake up the leaders of the shoals area
You would think this would wake up the leaders of the shoals area
Unions don't have a thing to do with it. Most and I say most people in this area think they are too good to accept a min wage job claiming they are better than that. My brother in law is one of them. So he sits his butt at home getting unemployment that our stupid president extended. So he has no incentive to find a job.
quote:Originally posted by ferrellj:
Why would an industry locate here? The Shoals is a strong union area and there are other areas in Alabama that are not.
Yep. Paying someone $15 an hour to sweep floors is not generally attractive to big business. Go where the labor costs are lower.
#1 in what category? Retirement communities? Even THEY need service people.
Yeah, I see all the lazy people that don't want to work around this area. What I wanna know is WHERE THE HECK are all the JOBS that they're not working at? I'll DO THEM!
Hiring freezes everywhere. I had to leave my good paying job up north to move down here because $1000/week just wasn't enough to survive even minimally up there. Now I make 1/8th of that a week and I could use at least another part-time job to make up some of the difference. There's none out here at the moment.
I guess I should just be thankful that I at least HAVE a job, but I'd like to be able to do a little more than just survive.
quote:Originally posted by HARLEY FLSTS:
Most and I say most people in this area think they are too good to accept a min wage job claiming they are better than that.
Yeah, I see all the lazy people that don't want to work around this area. What I wanna know is WHERE THE HECK are all the JOBS that they're not working at? I'll DO THEM!
Hiring freezes everywhere. I had to leave my good paying job up north to move down here because $1000/week just wasn't enough to survive even minimally up there. Now I make 1/8th of that a week and I could use at least another part-time job to make up some of the difference. There's none out here at the moment.
I guess I should just be thankful that I at least HAVE a job, but I'd like to be able to do a little more than just survive.
I know of three people who have went over to the State Employment Agency and been put to work in a couple days. Now they didn't care what kind of job, they needed a job. The jobs are there, it's just if you want to do them or not.
quote:Originally posted by Road Puppy:
I could use at least another part-time job to make up some of the difference. There's none out here at the moment.
Lowes in MS is hiring.
quote:Originally posted by barksdale.jeff:
The thing that is really sad is in 2007 - 2008 the economy was booming.....and the shoals area is dead last in the nation.
You would think this would wake up the leaders of the shoals area
I've got news for you, they could care less.
There's alot of new homes going up in Muscle Shoals. Who's buying those?
quote:Originally posted by HARLEY FLSTS:
Unions don't have a thing to do with it. Most and I say most people in this area think they are too good to accept a min wage job claiming they are better than that. My brother in law is one of them. So he sits his butt at home getting unemployment that our stupid president extended. So he has no incentive to find a job.
Unless you are a college student or living at home with mom and dad, you can't make it on minimum wage. In India you'd be considered upper-middle class, but here in the U.S.A. our stuff costs much more. You can't pay rent with minimum wage much less a mortgage, utilities, food, gas, etc., so I wouldn't be so quick to classify people as lazy because they don't want to take them. Additionally, a future employer usually bases a future salary on the last job the potential employee held. Do you want to have to put down minimum wage and start all over again? Many of the people who are unemployed lost very good-paying jobs through no fault of their own, just a casualty of the economy.
The fact is many of our good-paying jobs (manufacturing) got out-sourced and the ones that are left (construction) are done at reduced wages because there are plenty of illegals willing to do it for much less; we're starting to see many of our white-color jobs go the same way. I do realize the benefits of globalization, but our policy makers weren't thinking very long term when they started signing all of these free trade agreements. Someone needs to come up with something quick or I'm afraid we're going to see long term high unemployment rates and we'll just have to get used to being a country with only service jobs - and hope we make enough cash to buy all those cheap imports from the very countries that now have our old jobs.
quote:Originally posted by dosvse3:
If you live here was their any doubt.
Number 1
Florence is listed about middle of the article.
No, "their" never was. People who are so unskilled in the English language as not to know the difference between "their" and "there" and who fail to use a question mark at the end of a question should not expect to pull down big increases in their pay.
beternu, by the way;
People who are (so) there are no degrees in unskilled, either you are unskilled, or you aren't) English language, the difference between "their" and "there, (comma) should not expect to pull down (down is a preposition, pull is a verb, you should use an adverb here)) increases in their pay.
People who are (so) there are no degrees in unskilled, either you are unskilled, or you aren't) English language, the difference between "their" and "there, (comma) should not expect to pull down (down is a preposition, pull is a verb, you should use an adverb here)) increases in their pay.
quote:Originally posted by barbaros45:
beternu, by the way;
People who are (so) there are no degrees in unskilled, either you are unskilled, or you aren't) English language, the difference between "their" and "there, (comma) should not expect to pull down (down is a preposition, pull is a verb, you should use an adverb here)) increases in their pay.
Re "unskilled," can you provide any link to a qualified source of authority? I doubt it.
As to the comma, that is clearly a judgment call.
As to "down," I must conclude that you simply don't get around much or you would have heard others to the effect that a person "pulls down" big money on the job. It might be a bit colloquial, but it is no outrage to the mother tongue as you prissily seem to think.
A grammar sharp you ain't!
If bitternu uses bad grammer it's ok. Pretty much typical of all liberal progressives.
quote:Re "unskilled," can you provide any link to a qualified source of authority? I doubt it.
As to the comma, that is clearly a judgment call.
A "judgement call" that is eighth grade mechanics .. my point is, just stop correcting everyone else until you...get it right... as to "qualified authority" do you have an eighth grade grammar book?
Why is it okay when you use bad grammar, and you berate others when they misspeak? kinda childish, right?
quote:Originally posted by Buttercup:quote:Originally posted by HARLEY FLSTS:
Unions don't have a thing to do with it. Most and I say most people in this area think they are too good to accept a min wage job claiming they are better than that. My brother in law is one of them. So he sits his butt at home getting unemployment that our stupid president extended. So he has no incentive to find a job.
Unless you are a college student or living at home with mom and dad, you can't make it on minimum wage. In India you'd be considered upper-middle class, but here in the U.S.A. our stuff costs much more. You can't pay rent with minimum wage much less a mortgage, utilities, food, gas, etc., so I wouldn't be so quick to classify people as lazy because they don't want to take them. Additionally, a future employer usually bases a future salary on the last job the potential employee held. Do you want to have to put down minimum wage and start all over again? Many of the people who are unemployed lost very good-paying jobs through no fault of their own, just a casualty of the economy.
The fact is many of our good-paying jobs (manufacturing) got out-sourced and the ones that are left (construction) are done at reduced wages because there are plenty of illegals willing to do it for much less; we're starting to see many of our white-color jobs go the same way. I do realize the benefits of globalization, but our policy makers weren't thinking very long term when they started signing all of these free trade agreements. Someone needs to come up with something quick or I'm afraid we're going to see long term high unemployment rates and we'll just have to get used to being a country with only service jobs - and hope we make enough cash to buy all those cheap imports from the very countries that now have our old jobs.
+1
quote:Originally posted by barbaros45:quote:Re "unskilled," can you provide any link to a qualified source of authority? I doubt it.
As to the comma, that is clearly a judgment call.
A "judgement call" that is eighth grade mechanics .. my point is, just stop correcting everyone else until you...get it right... as to "qualified authority" do you have an eighth grade grammar book?
Why is it okay when you use bad grammar, and you berate others when they misspeak? kinda childish, right?
Still no link to a qualified authority. And your call on my "judgment call" is nothing but your unsubstantiated opinion.
Stuff it!
Yeh, I will "stuff it." Since I've discovered what I am dealing with here.