{"id":511,"date":"2012-08-08T15:03:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T18:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2012-08-09T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T19:12:23","slug":"all-of-phillys-recent-economic-growth-in-low-waged-jobs-yup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"All Of Philly&#8217;s Recent Economic Growth In Low Waged Jobs? Yup."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Blumgart reports this week on a post on American City.org that restaurants and hospitality providers pretty much added 20% of all new jobs in the last year&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/americancity.org\/daily\/entry\/want-to-fight-poverty-philly-start-at-the-bottom-with-the-low-wage-jobs\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/americancity.org\/daily\/entry\/want-to-fight-poverty-philly-start-at-the-bottom-with-the-low-wage-jobs', '&#8220;Philadelphia lost 8,700 jobs in the last year&#8230;. \u201cLeisure and Hospitality\u201d added 2,000. And while any job growth is better than none, these three growing industries share something in common: They usually don\u2019t pay well.&#8221;');\">&#8220;Philadelphia lost 8,700 jobs in the last year&#8230;. \u201cLeisure and Hospitality\u201d added 2,000. And while any job growth is better than none, these three growing industries share something in common: They usually don\u2019t pay well.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How can you have an economic recovery if workers are too broke to spend any money?<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, you can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Now is a perfect time to raise the minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>Broke people spend a higher percentage of their disposable income than the wealthy.  <\/p>\n<p>Every penny earned by a low-waged workers is immediately returned to the local economy.  <\/p>\n<p>Wages earned by servers and dishwashers will not end up hanging out in the Cayman Island&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Support our local economy.  Raise the minimum wage today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Blumgart reports this week on a post on American City.org that restaurants and hospitality providers pretty much added 20% of all new jobs in the last year&#8230; &#8220;Philadelphia lost 8,700 jobs in the last year&#8230;.&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/?p=511'>Read the Post<span class='screen-reader-text'>All Of Philly&#8217;s Recent Economic Growth In Low Waged Jobs? Yup.<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,33,36],"tags":[10,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}