Get A Job, Ya Bum! But An Entire Industry Has Jobs. It’s Not Enough To Prevent Homelessness

$15/hour wages: a protest to keep working people housed.

The ultimate small-c, lift-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps conservative has a supposedly bullet-proof sneer at those unfortunates sleeping on the sidewalk. “Don’t ask me to solve their problems if they don’t have jobs.”

But jobs, it seems, are no longer a solution to homelessness, not in California at least. A recent study explains how an entire industry falls short. Read more at CBS NEWS: Fast-food industry drives workers to homelessness, report finds