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Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Caitlin Johnstone — Bezos Bows To Pressure On $15/hr. Keep Pressuring Him. Keep Pressuring Them All.

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You heard this already but Caitlin Johnstone reminds us that this is only a token rather than a change of heart. Don't let down the gu...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca — Universal Basic Income or Universal Living Wage?

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Asking the right question. The challenge for the future of work is not really about the quantity of jobs, but their quality, and whethe...
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Thursday, January 11, 2018

Reuters — Walmart uses lower U.S. tax bill to raise minimum wage to $11 an hour

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Good news. Those funds will mostly be spent and flow into the economy. Hopefully, other firms will follow suit. Reuters Walmart uses lower U...
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Monday, July 17, 2017

Bill Mitchell — British employers exhibit on-going greed but lie about it

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One of the abiding and recurring trends, accentuated in the neo-liberal era, is the apparent ‘concern’ for the low-paid by the captains of ...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Jeff Desjardins — How You Can Build Wealth on Minimum Wage

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Simple living.  Not for everybody. But it works for some. Visual Capitalist How You Can Build Wealth on Minimum Wage Jeff Desjardins ...
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Thursday, January 12, 2017

Peter Dorman — Minimum Wages and Productivity

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Evidence that a minimum wage increases productivity as theory predicts. Econospeak Minimum Wages and Productivity Peter Dorman | Professor...
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Thursday, December 8, 2016

Zaid Jilani — Donald Trump’s Labor Secretary Pick Wants More Cheap Immigrants in American Jobs

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As the CEO of the corporation that operates Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, President-elect Donald Trump’s labor secretary pick Andy Puzder has f...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Stiv — Donald Trump Insists That Wages Are ‘Too High’

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Donald J. Trump on Wednesday morning repeated a statement he made the night before in the Republican presidential debate: that wages are “t...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Zaid Milani — Skeptics Said $15 Minimum Wage Movement Was Unrealistic — 60 Million People Are Now Slated to Get It

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THE PUNDITS said it would never happen. But both California and New York on Monday implemented legislation that moves them toward a ...
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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Deirdre Fulton — Linking Clinton Policies to Poverty, Sanders Lays Out Plan to Help Nation's Poor

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"What welfare reform did in my view was to go after some of the weakest and most vulnerable people in this country," says Bernie ...
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Sunday, February 7, 2016

AlterMainstreamInfo — IMF’S RECIPE FOR EUROPE: “WITH LOW WAGE EXPLOIT THE REFUGEES’

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The International Monetary Fund in January published a report which calls on European countries to accept the majority of refugees and to t...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Brad DeLong — Must-Read: Cathy O’Neal: The Fight for 15

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It seems to me that there are two questions: 1. Should the the aggregate of the minimum wage and the earned income tax credit add up to a ...
Friday, July 31, 2015

John T. Harvey — The Real Argument For Raising The Minimum Wage

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There continues to be a great deal of debate over the economic impact of the federal minimum wage. Does it serve as a drag because it raise...
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Monday, June 22, 2015

Brad Delong — Must-Read: Invictus: Red State, Blue State: Kansas and Washington

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Kansas going down the tubes due to imposition of voodoo economics (ht Poppy Bush), while Seattle is prospering after raising the minimum w...
Monday, May 4, 2015

Lars P. Syll — Demand theory gobbledygook

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Back in 1992, New Jersey raised the minimum wage by 18 per cent while its neighbour state, Pennsylvania, left its minimum wage unchanged. U...
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Warren Buffett's got the minimum wage thing wrong like so many other people

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Warren Buffet was chiming in on the minimum wage or should I say, the idea of hiking the minimum wage. This was in response to a question...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Limbaugh calls the guy who gave employees a raise, a Socialist

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Fat, Conservative, bloviator, Rush Limbaugh, came out against that guy, Dan Price , the Seattle CEO who gave a huge pay raise to all his emp...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

A CEO just made the minimum wage at his company $70,000 per year!

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Image source: New York Times h/t to a student of mine, John, who sent me this. This young Seattle entrepreneur/CEO just raised the mi...
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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Chris Dillow — Capitalism & The Low-Paid

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Is capitalism compatible with decent living standards for the worst off*? This old Marxian question is outside the Overton window, but it...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Travis Gettys — Charles Koch’s plan to fix the economy: Destroy minimum wage and ‘addictive’ welfare

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Same old, same old. Government is the problem, not the solution. The Raw Story Charles Koch’s plan to fix the economy: Destroy minimum ...