Producing Poverty: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Production Jobs in Manufacturing | Center for...

Very interesting read. I don't like staffing services at all. For someone who is new to a trade or fresh out of school. Its alright to gain some experience. For those with 15 or more years experience. The places shaft the company and the worker.

This is proof of the theory that came out a couple years ago that Welfare and low income housing , etc was put into place to PREVENT the poor from rising out of their situation.

Here is how the theory goes.
IF you were in power and you wanted to make sure that a certain segment of the population NEVER has any power, never moves into your neighborhood and never will their children interact with yours...you must do the following:
1) Establish an artificial "PovertyLine" and then tell those you would subjugate that they are living below it.
2) Establish programs to "Help" such as public schools, medical assistance (Medicaid), monetary stipend (Welfare and Aid to families with dependent children), Food Allowance (Food Stamps) and the like.
3) Establish Public Housing projects, also known as "Affordable Housing" ensuring that those projects are nowhere near your home.
4) Establish the rules that if you Do get a job and earn a raise you can loose all your assistance, because it is not a system set to encourage you to get out of it.

What you have done is take the people that you want in a permanent under-class and you have then put their kids in the school that you want them in, sequestered them in neighborhoods away from you, and ensured that they have no real influence either in business, or in society. THEN you spin it, that YOU and YOU alone care about them so if they elect your opponents they will lose all their entitlements.

Using this model, the Democrats have taken the lower strata of the US Population, made them dependent upon the Democratic party and it's hacks for food, shelter and upkeep, thus infantalizing them and pushing them off to the side, instead for actually helping them to learn grow and progress out of poverty.

Welfare is the Slavery of the 21st Century and those that continually vote on the Left fail to see that some times you have to make the baby birds fly for them to grow and survive.

Traditionally, production jobs paid very good living wages. Indeed, many argue that as such jobs fled America for regions where the poor were willing to work for low wages (especially in lands where the cost of living was extremely low), they were replaced by lower paying service jobs. However, there's a good chance such jobs could return to America. The higher cost of wages in America can now be offset by America's abundant resources of cheap energy. Remember, the cost of production is not just about wages. There's also the costs of energy, raw materials, and transportation. Once upon a time, low wages offset everything else, even the costs of transporting raw materials to distant lands and returning manufactured goods to America, the world's greatest marketplace. However, the cost of energy is high and its availability limited in most places. America may once again become a manufacturing powerhouse. I worked with many Asian auto manufacturers and wasn't surprised in the least to see them building plants all over America. Of course, they refused to work with the auto workers unions and paid sufficient wages and benefits to keep employees from agitating for union representation.