Reply #15: Another sign... the graying of fast food workers [View All]

[salin]

started noticing it in 1991... suddenly the teenagers weren't working the window at Wendys, or McDs... then a few years later the fastfood industry was teen driven again. Then by 2002... the fastfood workforce once again became noticeable grayer...

btw, there were homeless under Clinton - big todo when the folks of one bay area community tried to shoo them all away... the city govt backed off when the public outcry was too loud. Seems that on the one hand folks didn't like the inconvenience of these folks sitting in the park near a retail area... but folks liked the idea of kicking these people around even less... Not the same for San Francisco where, if I recall, two mayors (one repub, and one dem) took a rather hardnosed approach towards the homeless - all durng Clinton's time. Now I didn't live in that area under bush1 or bush2 so I have no sense of comparison - would guess, however, based on the ever increasing costs in that area - and the ever shrinking job market - that the ranks have swollen...