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Karen Roquemore, 48, works two jobs to keep up with her lifestyle. Her full-time job entails pushing paperwork, and answering calls mostly for commercial insurance clients. She’s been with this company for 18 years and makes $15 an hour. Roquemore said she had to pick up a second job, because her work with the General Agency ***double check that is the name– what kind of business is this?*** no longer was able to offer overtime for her or any of her coworkers. Her full-time job takes absolutely no more than 40 hours a week, and she said she supplements with a cashier position at Harps Grocery Store. Her position as a cashier pays $10 per hour. Roquemore is wearing her black Harps uniform and she has a big, inviting smile on her face.***nice detail*** She said she is happy to work at Harps even part-time, because it doesn’t take too much energy and they don’t ask for too much out of her. “I make enough to make it worth my while,” she said. **good quote** The flexibility is what she said she likes most about her cashier job at Harps.
Roquemore is married, but her she and her husband have no children. She expressed said that it would be even more difficult to maintain a comfortable lifestyle if she had kids to worry about on top of herself and her husband. ***revise- wordy*** She said there’s probably no way she could work 2 ***numbers – AP style*** jobs like she does if she added children to the mix. She said she has some spending habits and that she has a weakness for purses.**funny** Roquemore is very independent, she says her husband is able to give her what she needs, but things that she wants are up to her.
Roquemore said her job with the General Agency is more stressful than her job as a cashier at Harps. Her position with the agency doesn’t offer a 401-K, but another type of “stock-like” retirement that fluctuates with the performance of the department. She called the plan “VANGARD,” ***proper name is The Vanguard Group – it’s a mutual fund provider *** ,and said it is similar, but her retirement does not compound.
Roquemore said her husband **get his name** gets tired of her working two jobs and that it can be a stress on their relationship. However she says it’s worth it to give more of her time to a job in order to have more flexibility in her budget. “A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do…I’m physically capable of working 2 jobs, so I’m okay,” ***she said.** Roquemore said when she recalled her husband worrying of her working too hard.
“When I go home, it’s just me and my dog,” **she said.** Roquemore said her and her husband are often on different schedules, and that even maintaining an animal is sometimes a challenge.
The following charts expand on the information about Roquemore’s demographic as a Black woman. The Arkansas map is broken down by county, illustrating the most at–risk black communities to be in poverty. Sharp county has a 100% poverty rate in the black community, but the total number ***of blacks in poverty*** is only 11. The deeper the red the more likely the black population in that county is to be in poverty. The deeper the blue the more likely the black communities are to be at risk of poverty. ***Let the chart and labeling tell that story.***
***move sentence below the first chart – better transition *** Furthermore I wanted to compare the state and federal minimum wages being lower than the mean hourly wages for the category of occupation–food preparation and serving.
**chart below — how would you label the counties? what do the colors represent?***
***insert text here too break up these graphics***
***below, specify Washington County, Arkansas
*** use cashiers instead of food preparation/ serving, which is an umbrella category. cashiers make $9.49 an hour.
| 1-2011 | Cashiers | detail | 5,710 | 6.8% | 24.503 | 0.97 | $9.08 | $9.49 | $19,750 | 1.1% |
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