THE PROBLEM:These days it is really hard to find a good job around Maine, even if you get a job you either don't like it or you just aren't making enough money to pay for your expenses. A good example is around Peru, Rumford, Dixfield area. If you don't work in the mill you work as a teacher or at a convient store. With the prices in economic shooting up so fast you need a higher paying job. Gas is at $4.10 and rising. Also, kids like myself that are just getting there license and getting to the age where they have to start paying for things if your parents don't hand stuff to you its hard to do things thats you want, no one wants to hire kids. I think that there should be more job opportunities and the minimum wage should go up. since it is only fair because everything else is going up not only gas, but clothes, food, and just all around living expenses.
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SOLVING THE PROBLEM: Really there isn't much each indivual can do to change this. I guess what we can do is hope that eventually the minimum wage will go up and there will be more job opportunites. If we got a big enough group together to complain then that might work, but hopefully over time it will click that people can't live on 7 dollars an hour. Think of a family with 5 kids dad making minimum wage and so isn't mom, they aren't going to be able to afford what there children need.
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