A young adult lady in Johnson County, Kentucky, was recently faithfully working her convenience store register job. She had a line of patrons buying drinks and paying for gasoline. Someone asked her how much money she made. "Nine dollars an hour," she said. "I've worked here over two years, and the pay has been $9 an hour. I've asked for a raise. I work hard. I'm here almost all the time. A manager from the chain of stores always says, 'We are looking into it.'" She said, "I have to find another job because I can't take care of myself and my children on $9 an hour."
A patron in line who was only buying a cup of coffee with a $20 bill took the cash she had just handed him in change and said to her, "Please take this and buy some lunch today." The lady said, "Uh, no, I don't want that," but the man insisted, and she accepted it with tears coming from her eyes. "Thank you, thank you so much," she said to the man. "I've never had anybody to do anything like this for me in my life."
It was good to see a random act of kindness, but the episode was a real-case scenario of how hard life is for many Americans just like this lady, working for low hourly wages.
On Jan. 5, the U.S. Department of Labor released its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary, revealing that the number of resignations reached 4.5 million in November. The number increased by 370,000, matching September's quit rate record high of 3% - indicating that the Great Resignation isn't showing signs of stopping.
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