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It’s easy to overlook the people who make our lives easier every day.
Often, they are paid hourly, and have to work multiple jobs to make enough merely to live themselves.
“The gig economy is not for the faint of heart. Making grocery runs for people, driving them around, walking their dogs, answering their customer service phone calls and other gigs that promise a “flexible schedule” with “good pay” often result in constant rushing, inconsistent paychecks and awkward encounters.”
The least we can do is notice and acknowledge their work, show some gratitude.
In Two American Families, which I posted recently, we saw the daily struggle and slow slide into poverty and irrelevance this kind of life leads to.
It’s exhausting.
It’s time for government to help fix it, and good-paying manufacturing jobs is one key way to do that.