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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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what's screwed up is at 2010 a month it also disqualifies you from Medicaid in states that have low income eligibility. It's not uncommon that if you aren't getting benefits to self cap your hours at 20-25 hours a week because any more and you lose federal aid, so its cheaper for them to actually work /less/. All stemming from the companies inability to let their workers work.
Yep, these effects are called welfare traps. It's why benefits shouldn't have hard thresholds, but instead taper off gradually as income increases.
Although in the case of health care, it should obviously be universal in the same way that every other developed country implements it.
I mean, the better solution is for everyone to get benefits with no taper. That way there's never any trap and no one has to worry about covering essentials.
Give everyone... ghasp, socialism!
funny they have the tapering effect for the aca plans in many states. the more you earn the less credit you get for it to be lower the cost.
Slavery. It's slavery.
medicaid calculates your total gross income, and not adjusted by tax. so if you are earn 700 instead of the 1000 before taxes, they will count that 1000. i know a person that works just under limit , shes afraid of going over, eventhough lunch period cuts 30minutes out of the paycheck, so shes actually earning way less than the max income for medicaid in my state.
2010, is actually way over in most states, if not all for medicaid. the highest is ~1840ish in most states per month. depending on the min wage, it can be only 18-19hrs (with out lunch cutting into the hours).
amazon does this too, set thier max limit for part time workers to 19hrs , when they had shoppers still(2018-2022), and maybe the amazon return stations. i think warehouses might be different(since most of them are full time)