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Originally Posted by crockett
That's BS and you know it. Workers don't tell their boss they will only work X amount of hours. If a job needs a 40/hr week employee then the employer hires a 40/hr week employee. If that employee can no longer work 40/hrs or chooses not to work 40/hrs then the employers finds a new employee...
It would be a very rare case in which this didn't hold true.. Ie your article is probably talking about a single clase or two and presenting it as if it's very common..
Just lik the BS article where they tried to claim restaurants were closing due to the 15/hr min wage, despite it hadn't even kicked in yet..
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It may happen more often than we might know. A while back I was watching a documentary about poverty.One woman had 4 kids (she had been married then after 12 years her husband walked out on her) and had a job, but was also getting welfare. She got a good amount of housing assistance and lived in a pretty nice 4 bedroom home. She also got free daycare, some food stamps and a few other things.
Her job liked her and thought she did a good job so they offered her a pretty big promotion. When she crunched the numbers she realized if she took the job she would make enough that she would lose her welfare, but she wouldn't make enough to cover everything she would lose from welfare. Basically she was going to have a better life making less and staying on welfare thank taking the promotion.
In her case it worked out. She went to her boss and explained her situation. Her boss told her if she had a bachelors degree they could pay her more so they promoted her, and gave her as much of a raise as they could that would allow her to keep her welfare. She then went back to school and when she got her degree they would give her the big raise.
I wouldn't be shocked if there are a good number of people who end up in the same situation and they choose to work less in order to keep their welfare as opposed to earning more and ending up in that bubble where they are of welfare, but doing worse than they were when they were on welfare.