Nickel and Dimed Barbara Eisenreich

Barbara Eherenreich wrote a book "Nickel and Dimed to Death".  It was stories about surviving on minimum wage jobs.  Written in 2001, it might be considered an expose on life when you are paid $7.00@hour. 

Just so you get where I'm coming from, I worked over thirty years in Miami Dade County in various positions related to job training, retraining, unemployment insurance, welfare, food stamps, and The Welfare to Work Program.

My first job was washing dishes $1.25@hr, my last job was delivering advertising flyers and I was lucky to make $7.25@hr on a paper route for the Miami Herald.

On October 1, 2025 the minimum wage in Florida was raised to $14.00@hr.

Throughout my entire working career with the job training programs I have always felt that having a job that paid a wage through a job with an employer was better than sitting at home.

And so this morning I read a story about Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel a major hedge fund. Ken moved his company/money from Illinois to Miami, Florida. Ken is worth about $50 billion dollars.  Since his arrival in Florida he has been charitable on many levels.

I've lived through inflation during the Carter Administration and what has come to be called the "great recession" of 2008. 

As I have grown older, I'm fortunate enough to have survived the "strange, strange, world we live in". Master Jack.

As in horse racing there are lots of ways to lose a race.  To win, it doesn't hurt to be lucky.

 

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