{"id":1837,"date":"2006-12-01T10:51:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T18:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/and_were_it_not_for_generous_parents_wed_have_the_same_problem_in_the_publishing_industry.html"},"modified":"2006-12-01T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T18:51:12","slug":"and_were_it_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/and_were_it_not.html","title":{"rendered":"And Were It Not For Generous Parents, We’d Have The Same Problem In The Publishing Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course the healthy wages<\/a> are encouraging the best and brightest to commit to careers in municipal government:<\/p>\n

Roughly 8,000 New York City employees — or 3% of the municipal workforce — earn such an abysmally low salary that they are forced to get food stamps to feed themselves and their families, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n

And approximately 340 city workers are on welfare, according to the Bloomberg administration. Councilman Bill de Blasio, chairman of the Council’s Welfare Committee, said he finds the revelation troubling.<\/p>\n

“The goal of the public sector should always be to pay people enough to feed their family and guarantee that that’s a living wage,” said de Blasio (D-Brooklyn). And if the city workforce mirrors the general population, he said, there could be thousands of others eligible for food stamps.<\/p>\n

The city’s top welfare official, Human Resources Administration Commissioner Verna Eggleston, stunned the Council last week when she revealed many of her staffers go to food kitchens in-between pay periods.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course the healthy wages are encouraging the best and brightest to commit to careers in municipal government: Roughly 8,000 New York City employees — or 3% of the municipal workforce — earn such an abysmally low salary that they are forced to get food stamps to feed themselves and their families, the Daily News […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}