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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 22. 1992
Quayle points to turnaround
The Associated Press
NORCO, Calif. — Reporter in tow,
Vice President Dan Quayle made a
surprise stop at a Burger King last
week, pointed to a "Now Hiring" sign
and declared, "Things are beginning
to turn around in California."
But restaurant manager Terie Roeder is the first to tell her many job-seekers that they won't earn a living with part-time work at minimum wage.
"Can you live on $4.25 an hour? Obviously no, the 33-year-old manager said Monday. "It's a joke to think that you can."
California's unemployment rate is 7.7 percent — fifth-highest in the nation — with defense, aerospace and agriculture hard by layoffs.
--noted that the recession was lingering longer in the state than in much of the rest of the nation. He said President Bush's Jan. 28 State of the Union address would focus on the economy and offer new programs.
During his California visit, Quayle
Roeder said that despite the short hours, wages that won't go much beyond $6 an hour after several years and no health insurance, more adults were applying for work at Burger King alongside the teenagers.
Roeder said she had 25 full- and part-time workers and would like to have 31. "I have a stack of job applications this high," she said, her hand about 6 inches above a plastic table ton.
find better work, she said.
Jobs at the restaurant about 40 miles east of downtown Los Angeles are available because of the traditionally high employee turnover, Reeder said. Students go off to school, and others
Asked during his surprise visit Friday how make $4.25 an hour would keep people off welfare, Quayle responded: "If you have a part-time job, you have a job. That's better than no job at all."
Roeder agreed. "He feels it makes a big change and so do I. I don't know how, but it should." she said.
Holly Smith, 23, has worked between 15 and 25 hours a week at Burger King for the past six months. "This was all I could find," said the Corona resident. "Before that, I was looking for a couple of months."
"It takes every bit of it. We're behind on our bills," she said.
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