Dear Friends
I snip and then comment.
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Reuss)
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: workfare
>Date: Mon, Sep 27, 1999, 3:00 pm
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>Victor Milne calculated:
>> If a workfare participant works 8
>> hours each working day (22 workdays in the average month) for his welfare
>> benefit of $520 a month, then he is being paid $2.95 an hour.
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>Over here, the 'wage' is about 2-3 times higher. Considering that the
>workfare work is very easy work that can't be compared with the stressing
>work in private companies, and that it basically helps the candidates to
>maintain a regular activity (and possibly to find a 'real' job), I think
>this wage isn't too bad...
>
>Chris
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One intriguing aspect of wages under capitalism is that the people who do
the crap jobs get the crap money.
Given that, as income (and wealth) inequality grows, ill-health also grows
(Richard Wilkinson's book) then we *have* to work out how to close the
present, obscene factors of income inequality.
Any ideas?
j
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