A worker I have come to know will soon be returning home to the Phillipines. She has had a mall job earning $800 per month. Given that she works 60 hour weeks that equals $3/hour. Half of that goes to paying rent.
She earns another $400/month cleaning apartments like mine.
Here's the math:
$800 in a month from a 60 hour per week job
+ $400 from side jobs in a month
$1200
- $400 rent
$800 to live on
And from that $800 she has to send money home to support her son and mother.
Her employer cut her pay to $680/month last month and this month cut it down to $550. Given that the side jobs pay the rent, that means she now earns just $550 to live on and she still has to send money to her mother and son.
It's a sad world.
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