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Boston Using Prison Slave Labor To Shovel Snow) (PICTURE)
The first five paragraphs describe just how severe the weather has been in Boston and how it may take a month for track conditions to get back to normal. The article then transitions to the great opportunity for union workers and students to make some extra cash – $30 an hour extra to be exact.
A mixture of union workers, students and others just looking to make some extra cash are shoveling MBTA tracks, WBZ-TV’s Nicole Jacobs reports. The MBTA is paying $30 an hour to workers who help clear the snow.
But did you notice the 8th word in that quote? It’s “others” and by others they mean prisoners.50 of them. Except these prisoners aren’t being paid $30 an hour. They aren’t even being paid minimum wage. Hell, they aren’t even being paid what minimum wage was decades ago. Go lower, much lower. $1 an hour would 5x more than what prisoners are making shoveling snow in Boston. MORE HERE
The prisoners don’t need to earn $30 an hour, they are being taken care of with food and housing. This is probably the only honest days work they have ever done, and why not help out tax payers, who by the way pay for the prisoners room and board through taxes.