being no man is a island we all rely on each other if they go down so do all.
Correcting for inflation your pays buying power is from the 1950's!
And so if you make nothing there will be nothing around you! And nothing helps no one!
As the many can't afford it so why have it? Healthcare is needed but if you can't
afford to use it why have it. Small towns are small for a reason.
The low pay keeps it low! And so how is the town to be brought up if the town is down?
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades
Low pay is low everything! Risk is growth and stagnation is death. Also if there is nothing there is no growth even worse by working their life at their dead end job and retiring at it common in small towns. Small towns have a lot of minimum wage retirees. This reflects to the quality of life in small towns for the people. With no foundation for needed higher job skills with people that walk with no cars or live with no heat or AC is bad for the labor force. If they can't take care of themselves then how are they to take care of the workplace. So what are you going to get... Many bad things for all showing a need for better pay!
~~~~~Cities have moods, according to new research, and when a city's mood is on
the upswing, the city's inhabitants tend to take more risks.
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2018/11/29/When-cities-are-in-good-moods-their-inhabitants-take-more-risks/1971543434455/?sl=9
~~~~~Of course, people live longer and have healthier lives in rich countries. With only a few (and usually scandalous) exceptions, water is safe to drink, food is safe to eat, sanitation is universal, and some sort of medical care is available to everyone. Yet all these essentials of health are more likely to be lacking for poorer Americans. Even for the whole population, life expectancy in the United States is lower than we would expect given its national income, and there are places — the Mississippi Delta and much of Appalachia — where life expectancy is lower than in Bangladesh and Vietnam.
Beyond that, many Americans, especially whites with no more than a high school education, have seen worsening health: As my research with my wife, the Princeton economist Anne Case, has demonstrated, for this group life expectancy is falling; mortality rates from drugs, alcohol and suicide are rising; and the long historical decline in mortality from heart disease has come to a halt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/opinion/poverty-united-states.html
If there are many adults making children wages then the children are less than children because the adults make the children wages not the children. And there is a need to change that because children don't pay rent, food, the bills and healthcare. So what are they going to have?
Not a lot!
~~~~~Oklahoma Ranks Near The Bottom In Child Health Insurance Rate
Georgetown researchers examined newly released U.S. Census data and found that three-quarters of children nationwide who lost health insurance coverage live in states like Oklahoma that have not expanded Medicaid to parents or other low-income adults.
Oklahoma already has the second-highest uninsured rate in the country — more than 14 percent of adults in Oklahoma don’t have health insurance.
If Oklahoma’s application for a Medicaid waiver to impose a work requirement on very low-income adults, including parents who receive health coverage through Medicaid, is approved, Alker expects the child uninsured health rate also to increase.
Under the proposal, able-bodied adult beneficiaries would have to document that they are working at least 20 hours a week or participating in job-training or volunteer activities to maintain their SoonerCare coverage.
If it’s approved, Oklahoma would be the only non-expansion state to have work requirements.
https://www.hppr.org/post/oklahoma-ranks-near-bottom-child-health-insurance-rate
~~~~~Oklahoma’s progress on child uninsured rate has stalled
All children should be able to see a doctor or fill a prescription when they need to. After all, access to quality health care in childhood makes it more likely that a person will succeed and thrive throughout their life. But in Oklahoma, children are less likely to have access to health care than their peers in most other states. New analysis of Census Bureau data shows that after years of steady declines in the child uninsured rate, progress in Oklahoma has stalled: for the last three years, the child uninsured rate has hovered at around 8 percent. In 2017, that gave us the fourth-highest share of children without health insurance in the US, working out to 82,000 children uninsured. That’s enough to nearly fill OU’s Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium (capacity: 86,112).
This is bad news for Oklahoma – but fortunately, Oklahoma has the opportunity to remedy the problem. Bringing access to quality, affordable health care to our children will protect their health, position them to seize the opportunities offered in school and at work, and set Oklahoma on the path to being a better, stronger state.
https://okpolicy.org/oklahomas-progress-on-child-uninsured-rate-has-stalled
