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Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

From Vox: Trump won. But so did marijuana legalization, gun control, and minimum wage increases.

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An odd result since these are all liberal proposals. - Click here for the story . By all accounts, the biggest races on Election Day were...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

The left and right might converge over increasing the minimum wage

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Most stories about ideology in the United States point out where the differences lie, but there are areas where the far right and the far le...
Monday, December 23, 2013

On the minimum wage, the right to unionize, and Walmart

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I stumbled across a fruitful blog post that touched on the relationship between minimum wages - along with the wages of low income workers ...
Friday, December 20, 2013

From the Fiscal Times: Why Raising the Minimum Wage Is a Fantasy

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A sobering read - something to consider for your paper, and maybe your career: In a recent “60 Minutes” piece, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ...

Four posts from the Dish on the minimum wage

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Andrew Sullivan has a series of blog posts - with input form his readers - on various aspects associated with the minimum wage. These might ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

From the Fiscal Times: Why the Income Gap is Widening

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The gap has become more pronounced since the housing crash of 2008. Here's a look at why - which might help determine whether raising ...

From the Atlantic Cities: Minimum Wage Was Once Enough To Keep a Family of 3 Out of Poverty

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From Emily Badger : Amid protests across the country over retail and service jobs that pay little better than the minimum wage, it's ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

The history of increases in the minimum wage

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Here are two ways to look at it.: 1 - Graphically 2 - As a table, but you have to click here to see it . Note that the value of the ...

Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

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The minimum wage was established - along with a variety of other rules related to labor - in the Fair Labor Standards Act , a piece of New D...