“I sell blood to survive”: the “Working poor” return to the USA, but now working is not enough
In the US, stories like the two we present below are becoming more and more common:
- Cashe Lewis, 31, of Denver, Colorado, does more jobs and is trying to find a third due to rising housing inflation. He told the Guardian that he works six days a week, sometimes more than 16 hours a day, just to pay the bills. “I'm always exhausted… the only day off I have a week, I donate the plasma to earn some extra money. I am literally selling my blood to eat, because I have no choice ”. all his friends are in the same condition as him.
- Fox 35 Orlando published an article titled "More People Donate Plasma to Earn Extra Money Between Inflation and Rising Costs". They interviewed Dan Hernandez, director of Octapharma Plasma in Orlando, who said: "We have countless people coming to our facilities saying it's really hard to make ends meet." Hernandez said the number of people donating has doubled in the past year, coinciding with rising inflation in the economy.
This explains why Americans are furious, despite the fact that, in theory, superficially, the number of jobs is increasing, as indicated by the latest payroll tally increasing by 252,000 units.
Simply, even as the number of workers increases, their wages are destroyed by inflation, so they are unable to pay bills, expenses and debts and find themselves having to do more jobs. Therefore, the number of active jobs increases, always made by the usual workers, who however, as indicated in the graph below by Zerohedge, see a continuous reduction in their real wages and are forced to extreme gestures.
The short period of increase in real wages that had been seen during Covid is over, and now we are back to the sad normality of the "Working poor", of workers who can no longer survive from their work. The expansion policies (deficit at 17%) of last year have not improved, on the contrary they have worsened the situation, laying the foundations for the current inflationary disaster. Tomorrow the Americans will ask the Biden government to account for all this.
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