As Candidates Announce Campaigns for Progress American Workers Cite Horrible Conditions

As presidential contenders toss their hats in the ring with promises to improve the middle class, wage earners cite terribly demeaning work and stingy pay.
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NEW YORK - April 22, 2015 - PRLog -- The campaign season is already underway, with predictable promises of improvement for the middle class – but workers across American aren’t buying it. Wage earners in a diversity of sectors – from hospital doctors to servers and baristas in the restaurant industry and hotel workers dealing with tourists – cite awful experiences, retail horror stories, and routine mistreatment.

They describe in vivid, disturbing details about how retail and service worker jobs are deplorable and demeaning. Customers, managers, and bosses treat them like dirt while refusing to adequately compensate them for their labor – so that they have to get up every day and go to a job where the only guarantee is a steady stream of retail problem people and abuse.

Meanwhile the pay is so inadequate that they cannot keep up with the cost of living and inflation, which typically leaves them no savings or free time to seek better education or an improved career. According to the Labor Department, American wages are not rising fast enough in today’s economy, adding insult to injury for workers who are also treated poorly in the workplace. The Federal Reserve has indicated that it would like to see wages grow by 3.5 percent, a healthy figure. In reality, however, wages right now are stuck at only about two percent. The national minimum wage, for example, earned by millions of hardworking Americans, is only $7.25 per hour. At that level a worker makes about $15,000 a year – which for most families is below the poverty line.

Working in service industries or retail sucks the energy out of millions of employees while also draining their finances and causing stress in their personal lives. But while the stories of mean employers, disrespectful and verbally offending customers, long hours, and stressful conditions continue to flood the Internet, politicians are apparently ignoring the pleas from these working class constituents for better pay and treatment. The media attention is also diverted away from these troubling issues, as was evidenced in April as candidates announced they were running for president. Much of the debate and public conversation was not about policies and vision, but was instead focused on a critique of Hillary Clinton’s logo versus the one being used by Ted Cruz. Another huge attention-getter was an assessment of Rand Paul’s hair, including high-profile coverage by CNN of his wife’s explanation of the “secret” behind that head of hair.

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