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Working 60 Hours A Week At 3 Part-Time Jobs And Still Living Paycheck To Paycheck Posted: 18 May 2016 06:50 AM PDT What can you do when you are working 60 hours a week at three part-time jobs and it is still not enough?  In America today, many people have taken on more than one job in a desperate attempt to make ends meet, but they still come up short at the end of the month.  And those that are actually working are the fortunate ones, because in one out of every five families in the United States nobody has a job.  There are more than 100 million working age Americans that are currently not employed (yes this is true), and as I pointed out yesterday, job cut announcements by major firms are currently running 24 percent ahead of last year's pace.  But unemployment is just part of the overall problem.  There is this growing misconception out there that if you "have a job" that you must be doing okay.  Unfortunately for the growing number of "working poor" in America, that is not true at all. Just consider the case of 55-year-old Erlinda Delacruz.  At one time she had a good full-time manufacturing job, but then her factory closed down.  Millions of other Americans have also seen their good paying jobs sent out of the country in recent years, and yet our politicians refuse to do anything about it.  Today, she works 60 hours a week at three different part-time jobs and she still makes less than she once did at the manufacturing plant… Read the entire article

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