View Full Version : Homeless city workers are a national embarrassment
Common
09-28-2015, 05:34 AM
The republicans voted down every attempt to raise the 7.25 per hour minimum wage.
Meet Angelo Torres. He’s the $33,662-a-year city Parks Department maintenance worker who says that, for the past four months, he has been nearly penniless, depressed and living out of his beat-up 2001 Chevy Blazer on Staten Island because he can’t afford to pay New York City rent.
The low-level public servant has become the new face of homelessness (http://nypost.com/2015/09/21/hundreds-of-full-time-city-workers-are-homeless/) — and a shame of international proportions.
Union bigs and a man who runs a park-advocacy group estimate that more than 300 full-time unionized workers live in homeless shelters or on the streets. Puny salaries fail to put roofs over the heads of workers in a town where StreetEasy (http://streeteasy.com/) reports the median rent is $2,690 a month.
The working homeless include Sanitation Enforcement Agent Georgie Grier, 55, who earns $33,600 a year — which failed to prevent her from having to relocate last year to the Aladdin Hotel, a crime-ridden homeless shelter in Midtown, she told Calder. “There’s a lot of addicts. It’s very scary, and I am losing a lot of weight,’’ she said.
http://nypost.com/2015/09/27/homeless-city-workers-are-a-national-embarrassment/
Matty
09-28-2015, 06:12 AM
New York can raise it's minimum wages they don't need to wait on Republicans. Other states have done so. True? Also, I thought I read that unions did not want minimum wage increases to apply to them.
hanger4
09-28-2015, 06:49 AM
Geebuss Common, this hasn't got a dang thing to do with Repubs or mim wage. It has everything to do with NYC.
donttread
09-28-2015, 07:01 AM
The republicans voted down every attempt to raise the 7.25 per hour minimum wage.
Meet Angelo Torres. He’s the $33,662-a-year city Parks Department maintenance worker who says that, for the past four months, he has been nearly penniless, depressed and living out of his beat-up 2001 Chevy Blazer on Staten Island because he can’t afford to pay New York City rent.
The low-level public servant has become the new face of homelessness (http://nypost.com/2015/09/21/hundreds-of-full-time-city-workers-are-homeless/) — and a shame of international proportions.
Union bigs and a man who runs a park-advocacy group estimate that more than 300 full-time unionized workers live in homeless shelters or on the streets. Puny salaries fail to put roofs over the heads of workers in a town where StreetEasy (http://streeteasy.com/) reports the median rent is $2,690 a month.
The working homeless include Sanitation Enforcement Agent Georgie Grier, 55, who earns $33,600 a year — which failed to prevent her from having to relocate last year to the Aladdin Hotel, a crime-ridden homeless shelter in Midtown, she told Calder. “There’s a lot of addicts. It’s very scary, and I am losing a lot of weight,’’ she said.
http://nypost.com/2015/09/27/homeless-city-workers-are-a-national-embarrassment/
It's interesting how this is always looked at as an income problem and not a price problem. Have the cesspool cities become too large for their own good?
Matty
09-28-2015, 07:03 AM
Isn't NYC run by Democrats?
Subdermal
09-28-2015, 07:47 AM
Plant story. The idiot could get roommates. This is an NYC problem, and another opportunity for leftists to push MW increases. They could give a sh!t about this guy.
nathanbforrest45
09-28-2015, 08:13 AM
Isn't NYC run by Democrats?
No, its run by Democratic Socialist.
nathanbforrest45
09-28-2015, 08:17 AM
Plant story. The idiot could get roommates. This is an NYC problem, and another opportunity for leftists to push MW increases. They could give a sh!t about this guy.
Several years ago my son worked in NYC. His income was north of $100,000.00 annually. He could not afford to live in "The City" so he lived in Jersey City across the river from Manhattan. Its not an issue of minimum wage, its an issue of rent control and high taxes. You could raise the minimum wage to $50.00 an hour and it still wouldn't be enough in NYC.
So, take your sob story to someone who can't understand simple economics Common.
Green Arrow
09-28-2015, 09:14 AM
How is this a GOP problem in a city and state dominated by Democrats?
Truth Detector
09-28-2015, 09:50 AM
The irony of Liberal leftist talking points; when individuals living in urban sewers dominated by Democrats, well, it's an issue with Reoubkicabs in Congress.
But when Democrats dominated the Congress while these same persistent issues occurred in Democratically dominated urban sewers, it was the minority "obstructionist" Republicans in Congress who were to blame.
Are we seeing a pattern to this leftist stupidity?
But the greatest lie of them all is the one where the issues of homelessness in Democratically dominated urban sewers is due to minimum wage laws. Now THAT is damned funny and outrageously stupid.
But then, Liberals wouldn't be the dumb low information Democrat voters they are if they were smart or intelligent.
hanger4
09-28-2015, 10:18 AM
A little more context to the OP. These two city workers are at the start of the wage scale for the jobs they have. Both make more than $16 an hour. Don't know if beneifits are included. To afford the median rent by applying half your salary (which is to much) takes around $65,000 a year. Thats about $32 an hour. Is that the min wage you desire Common ??
texan
09-28-2015, 10:34 AM
Geebuss Common, this hasn't got a dang thing to do with Repubs or mim wage. It has everything to do with NYC.
My thoughts exactly.
They can pay more if they want to! Who runs NYC let me think? Oh yeah democrats.
Common
09-28-2015, 11:22 AM
A little more context to the OP. These two city workers are at the start of the wage scale for the jobs they have. Both make more than $16 an hour. Don't know if beneifits are included. To afford the median rent by applying half your salary (which is to much) takes around $65,000 a year. Thats about $32 an hour. Is that the min wage you desire @Common (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=659) ??
No, that is too high for some areas of the country, but I do want to see a minimum wage of at least 10.50 an hour across the country.
Hangar I know you will disagree but thats ok thats what this is all about. The rich have had a party for 30 yrs. They have gotten fabulously more rich, far more rich than natural progression, while the poor and middle class have stagnated.
The reason for this is unbridled greed and govt policies that are all for the rich and protect the rich.
I predict change is coming. The younger generations arent as dumb as mine.
donttread
09-28-2015, 11:38 AM
Isn't NYC run by Democrats?
Tomato / Tamato
texan
09-28-2015, 12:27 PM
No, that is too high for some areas of the country, but I do want to see a minimum wage of at least 10.50 an hour across the country.
Hangar I know you will disagree but thats ok thats what this is all about. The rich have had a party for 30 yrs. They have gotten fabulously more rich, far more rich than natural progression, while the poor and middle class have stagnated.
The reason for this is unbridled greed and govt policies that are all for the rich and protect the rich.
I predict change is coming. The younger generations arent as dumb as mine.
You can't live in NYC for $10.50 an hour! This just shows a lack of understanding on this issue and how its used.
leekohler2
09-28-2015, 12:44 PM
Sadly, I have to agree with some other posters here. This is a NYC issue, not a political one. Having spent a lot of time in New York, I also know that some of these people are quite simply not looking for affordable places to live. Bronx has much lower rents, so does Jersey.
nathanbforrest45
09-28-2015, 01:00 PM
Wait a minute. Aren't city maintenance workers employed by the CITY????? How can anyone claim this is an issue of the "rich getting richer"??????? What multinational corporation is running the CITY maintenance program in NYC? I say boycott them.
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