I call this “Merica”

I’ll say this again. Minimum wage paychecks are basically allowances for adults. People are working for pennies on the dollar, basically poverty pay with no way of upward mobility. It doesn’t matter if you have a degree, certification, or experience – these companies and businesses do not care. They pay people very little, every job is part time, and most do not offer any benefits, job security, or advancement. People are graduating from college with massive amounts of debt and no real job/career prospects, but apparently that is okay because this is “merica”. Many of us will have to relocate in order to find better paying jobs and opportunities, because hate to break it to you, but Flint, Michigan is not the place for most people to thrive….maybe back in the ‘50s and ‘60s but not today.

What’s the point of having a job, when you are still broke? Ask yourself, “Isn’t the main point of having a job to have money so that one can provide for themselves and have a source of income?” Yet many of us get paid and will be broke the same day or a few days later. The paychecks are so small and downright pathetic. No wonder many are living paycheck to paycheck. Meanwhile these so called “PROUD TO BE AMERICAN” companies/businesses continue to thrive, make millions/billions/trillions in profits, getting tax cuts (many are not even paying taxes)…Meanwhile let’s tax the living **** out of the working poor, working class, lower class, and middle class, because once again it’s “Merica.”

 

Jia Ireland graduated from UM-Flint in 2014. She plans to pursue her graduate studies in the Social Sciences in 2017. She explains: Cultural Expression is important to me, because it allows people to creatively express how they feel, and it gives people a platform to express themselves. Many times there are no avenues for people to express themselves, particularly one’s culture in mainstream America. So, it is very important to have “Cultural Expression.”