I graduated from high school 15 years ago, like many people, I did not go to college right away, and instead joined the workforce. In the last 15 years I have worked full time across much of the spectrum. First I worked in manufacturing, then retail for a small business, commission sales of used cars, took a second, part-time job as a ticket clerk for a national movie theater company and now I am working in human services. Additionally, many of the people I have known work or have worked in food service, for convenient stores, and in construction. I have worked, or known someone who’s worked, throughout the entire spectrum of low-wage working class jobs. In fact, I found that the one thing that all these jobs had in common was that they were all low-wage.
I went back to school where I recently graduated with a degree in Political Science with a minor in History, to see if maybe there was something I could do to change this grave injustice, not just for me, but for everyone I’ve ever known. This Blog is my attempt to at least document my perspective. The perspective of the “Working Poor”.
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