• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    My firefighter/emt job I’m at 54 hours a week starts at $41k a year. That’s after getting all the certs and all the ongoing training and emt refresher classes etc. Most of us work two jobs.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Most of us work two jobs.

      This is what I think about every time the soundbyte about Biden creating 16,000,000 jobs is played. How many of those are second or third jobs?

      Probably most, because nothing meaningful has been done to curb inflation, price gouging on rent, and progress toward living wages.