Quote (Thor123422 @ 19 Apr 2016 16:43)

My mother raised me and my sister single. We stopped being able to ask for help after about 6th grade in math. Her response was "So what, that's what teachers are for". She made it our responsibility to ask for help from our teachers if we didn't understand something after that point. She also worked over 50 hours a week and attended every sports and academic event me or my sister participiated in, and most every night, so there wasn't a lot of extra time to learn higher math. It's higher than 10-25%.

Taking that class means sacrificing supporting their children in other ways outside of academic, which is just as important.

Quote (general_patton @ Apr 20 2016 01:00am)

I think parents helping with schoolwork makes for kids who are shitty at just about everything, but especially math, mostly because math is difficult and harder to bullshit than other subjects. The only interference I wanted from my parents was to be left alone.

Quote (Handcuffs @ Apr 22 2016 05:47pm)

I didn't know this until today, but I read that in Seattle the timeline to increase to $15/hour is different depending on how many employees a business has. With businesses with fewer than 500 employees will reach the $15-an-hour wage by 2021 and those with 500 or more employees (including national chains) will reach $15 an hour by 2017.

Quote (Beowulf @ Apr 23 2016 01:59am)

doing that in cali as well, smaller businesses have longer to comply

from what I have seen here over the last few raises is smaller companies putting it off till the last minute then going into panic mode and either cut way back on hours or change a lot of things to nickle and dime the employee through whatever changes they can get away with

hits small town work forces pretty hard

also makes an incredibly expensive state even more expensive to shop in

I don't mind paying more so others can make a better wage though

Quote (Handcuffs @ Apr 22 2016 09:14pm)

Was reading some stuff released recently on the effect of the minimum wage increase in Seattle that I found to be interesting.

http://www.retaildive.com/news/study-retail-prices-stable-a-year-after-seattle-minimum-wage-hike/417949/

From the study by UoW:

http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/18/early-analysis-of-seattles-15-wage-law-effect-on-prices-minimal-one-year-after-implementation/

Quote (duffman316 @ Apr 23 2016 02:26am)

so prices didn't go through the roof and unemployment didn't skyrocket the way the naysayers said it would?

Quote (Thor123422 @ Apr 15 2016 09:07pm)

you're*

as in "you're an idiot whose opinion I don't care about"