Saturday, July 14, 2012

More jobs but less pay?

Is every new job a good job? is a editorial from the Burka Blog is aimed not only at the citizens of San Antonio but also the citizens around the state of Texas. The author (Paul) uses a news article from the San Antonio Express-News written by Brian Chasnoff to explain San Antonio's problem with new jobs being created.

In the editorial it explains that San Antonio has no problem creating new jobs, but the only issue is that the jobs are usually minimum wage. San Antonio's goal was to produce higher paying jobs, and this is going in the complete opposite direction. Paul states that San Antonio has the highest debt in credit card in America, averaging to be $5,177. There is a quote in the article from an economist from San Antonio blaming that the problem is not low paying wages but the unskilled workers. Paul is concerned that San Antonio is going no where in their fight for higher pay jobs, and remembers back in the seventies when San Antonio politics would try to bring high paying jobs to the city.

The author of the blog is credible and I find it as an interesting perspective on the deal about the new jobs in San Antonio. Texas politics is all about building new jobs and boasting about it's boom in the job market, but the trade off is the low paying minimum wage jobs. I agree with this editorial that it raises questions if this deal is worth it. Creating minimum wage jobs that can barely support a family of four is nothing to boast about in my opinion. What the government should be striving for is to create more jobs with a higher pay and they should have accomplished that years ago, instead they are going entirely backwards when they should be moving forward.

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