With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.
Just getting paid for six months out of the year is unacceptable in any kind of job.
We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.
In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all.
Food poverty exists because of unemployment, low wages, high costs of heating, as well as problems at the DWP including delays in receiving social security, and the cruel and unfair Bedroom Tax.
Part time America won’t work.
The fact of the matter is that when governments fail - as the Tories have done - to tackle the root causes of working peoples' need for welfare support, like low pay and high rents, the number of working people relying on benefits increases.
Too many veterans are poor or near poor and homeless because of it.
Workfare will merely accentuate the growth of the low-paying, insecure labour market.
