$7000/yr is about $600/mo. That's WITH a roommate in many parts of the US.
$100/mo for utilities: gas + electricity + phone isn't extravagant in most of the US. And yes, you need Internet or phone to (say) look for jobs these days.
The bus doesn't run everywhere, and good luck walking/biking along a major road with no sidewalk in Detroit winter or Phoenix summer.
Save on health expenses? See above. You just got hit by a car while biking to work. Do not pass go, pay $20,000 for ER bills.
Clothes - maybe. Activities -- you still have to get places.
Executive orders only exist because Congress gave the executive a specific power to regulate something. i.e. the EPA was given powers under the Clean Air Act.
Adjust this per capita -- costs of living are lower in poorer states, so they can in turn pay less per capita in "welfare." Also, a lot of the poorer red states didn't expand Medicaid.
Which is why there needs to be either a UBI, or students need to be paid a stipend as is the case in much of the developed world. It will give people the ability to increase their employment value without being born with a golden spoon. But no, that's SOCIALISM. And socialism is bad as we all know.
True about business majors -- business education is responsible for a lot of the lack of scruples and short-sightedness seen in US business.
Not sure if bachelor's degrees are watered-down and grade-inflated. In popular disciplines -- i.e. biochem to pre-med, they tend to want to keep the averages at a C+ or so to weed out the people who won't be able to hack it in upper-level classes.
You seem to prefer corporate brainwashing over education. Econ departments at most "traditional" universities tend to be fairly balanced to conservative. The OP favors a monoculture of corporatism.
If you're being paid $10/hr or $20,000/yr, take home more like $18,000, where do you start cutting expenses. Housing = $7000/yr minimum. Car, if you want to get to work, probably $2000/yr just for repairs and insurance. Utilities, $1200/yr. Food, $3650/yr if you eat at home. Health insurance, subsidized, $1200/yr. Gas for the car, just to get to work, $500/yr. Clothes, $1000/yr. Activities outside of work, say $1000/yr (no pleasures make a person go nuts). We're up to $17,550/yr without any unexpected expenses, and that's in a "cheap" part of the US.
Which is crap -- being able to go up and speak to the prof after class or attend office hours isn't the same dynamic as some Skype chat. Nor is being able to raise a hand and ask a question during the actual lecture. Being somewhat ADHD, I'd probably forget most of my questions before I asked them.
Only because it's hard to find the time to better yourself while working subsistence wages. Believe me -- probably 95% of Wal*Mart employees want the hell out of working for that crappy company.
The last one. Translation: they end up in a school that toes Wal*Mart's party line. Capitalism good! Capitalism always good! Braaaaaaawk! Braaaaaawk! Now be a good middle manager and help us step on your former co-workers.
The schools are second-tier "adult ed" schools in three states -- so majority of courses taken will be online. No opportunity for networking or making connections. Why do you assume that Wal*Mart employees would want to work in the same industry all of their careers?
Why restrict the choice to second-tier "adult ed" schools in three states? This means that most people will be forced to take the classes online, which denies a lot of opportunities. In a traditional class, you have contact with professors and other students and hear of research opportunities, etc. Of course, that's what Wal*Mart doesn't want -- they don't want students to develop connections outside the company. Otherwise, the students can just up and leave after they have their degree.
Technically, MacBooks do allow 3rd-party OS's and apps. The problem is that the new MacBooks have an abysmal design in other ways (glued-on everything).
We know that already. They've been under attack since this country was founded. First slavery, then Jim Crow, then the Red Scares, then the War on Some Drugs, then the War on Terror...
The time spend watching some inane talking head yammering away could be better spent volunteering for the ACLU or Innocence Project.
Me personally? I'd say they were right. The US *massively* over-reacted to 9/11. School shootings are a big deal, but the media should stop harping on them -- publicity only encourages copycats.
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$7000/yr is about $600/mo. That's WITH a roommate in many parts of the US.
$100/mo for utilities: gas + electricity + phone isn't extravagant in most of the US. And yes, you need Internet or phone to (say) look for jobs these days.
The bus doesn't run everywhere, and good luck walking/biking along a major road with no sidewalk in Detroit winter or Phoenix summer.
Save on health expenses? See above. You just got hit by a car while biking to work. Do not pass go, pay $20,000 for ER bills.
Clothes - maybe. Activities -- you still have to get places.
You drink soy lattes?
Executive orders only exist because Congress gave the executive a specific power to regulate something. i.e. the EPA was given powers under the Clean Air Act.
Recession will likely hit in 2019-20, if not sooner. Trump will end up unelectable even as a county dog-catcher. Should be entertaining to watch.
OTOH, a consumer advocate like Harris, willing to stick it to the big corps, should go over nicely. Enjoy the ride!
Adjust this per capita -- costs of living are lower in poorer states, so they can in turn pay less per capita in "welfare." Also, a lot of the poorer red states didn't expand Medicaid.
I can't wait till Kamala Harris wins in 2020 and both racists and sexists will weep bitter tears...
Which is why there needs to be either a UBI, or students need to be paid a stipend as is the case in much of the developed world. It will give people the ability to increase their employment value without being born with a golden spoon. But no, that's SOCIALISM. And socialism is bad as we all know.
True about business majors -- business education is responsible for a lot of the lack of scruples and short-sightedness seen in US business.
Not sure if bachelor's degrees are watered-down and grade-inflated. In popular disciplines -- i.e. biochem to pre-med, they tend to want to keep the averages at a C+ or so to weed out the people who won't be able to hack it in upper-level classes.
Same goes for CS, I'd assume.
You seem to prefer corporate brainwashing over education. Econ departments at most "traditional" universities tend to be fairly balanced to conservative. The OP favors a monoculture of corporatism.
The majority of WIC recipients are actually gainfully employed. Stop repeating racist dog-whistle stereotypes from 1993.
Fiscally conservative?
You mean one that supports tax cuts while wanting to pay to revamp out military's murder devices and technologies?
A fiscally conservative president would tell the military industrial complex to go bugger itself.
If you're being paid $10/hr or $20,000/yr, take home more like $18,000, where do you start cutting expenses. Housing = $7000/yr minimum. Car, if you want to get to work, probably $2000/yr just for repairs and insurance. Utilities, $1200/yr. Food, $3650/yr if you eat at home. Health insurance, subsidized, $1200/yr. Gas for the car, just to get to work, $500/yr. Clothes, $1000/yr. Activities outside of work, say $1000/yr (no pleasures make a person go nuts). We're up to $17,550/yr without any unexpected expenses, and that's in a "cheap" part of the US.
Which is crap -- being able to go up and speak to the prof after class or attend office hours isn't the same dynamic as some Skype chat. Nor is being able to raise a hand and ask a question during the actual lecture. Being somewhat ADHD, I'd probably forget most of my questions before I asked them.
Only because it's hard to find the time to better yourself while working subsistence wages. Believe me -- probably 95% of Wal*Mart employees want the hell out of working for that crappy company.
The last one. Translation: they end up in a school that toes Wal*Mart's party line. Capitalism good! Capitalism always good! Braaaaaaawk! Braaaaaawk! Now be a good middle manager and help us step on your former co-workers.
The schools are second-tier "adult ed" schools in three states -- so majority of courses taken will be online. No opportunity for networking or making connections. Why do you assume that Wal*Mart employees would want to work in the same industry all of their careers?
Why restrict the choice to second-tier "adult ed" schools in three states? This means that most people will be forced to take the classes online, which denies a lot of opportunities. In a traditional class, you have contact with professors and other students and hear of research opportunities, etc. Of course, that's what Wal*Mart doesn't want -- they don't want students to develop connections outside the company. Otherwise, the students can just up and leave after they have their degree.
An "ouch" of gold? Is that like a golden ear piercing pin?
One can know that Ebola is a bad thing without being personally exposed to it.
Because I occasionally hear it playing on businesses/other people's TVs and it's worse than useless.
Today's American TV news is generally useless in discussing and informing the public about pressing issues.
Technically, MacBooks do allow 3rd-party OS's and apps. The problem is that the new MacBooks have an abysmal design in other ways (glued-on everything).
They can't tell if it's muted though :D
We know that already. They've been under attack since this country was founded. First slavery, then Jim Crow, then the Red Scares, then the War on Some Drugs, then the War on Terror...
The time spend watching some inane talking head yammering away could be better spent volunteering for the ACLU or Innocence Project.
Me personally? I'd say they were right. The US *massively* over-reacted to 9/11. School shootings are a big deal, but the media should stop harping on them -- publicity only encourages copycats.
Mod parent up, insightful.