Tag Archives: Low-Wage Workers

Economist’s View: Alan Krueger: The Minimum Wage: How Much is Too Much?

Source:The New Democrat  Good question, because how is a job where the employee bags groceries, rings up groceries, makes cheeseburgers, cleans up after people, takes orders from customers, worth. Not as much as the person who hires those people, or … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: Jay Porter: ‘A Small Business Owners Case For Raising the Minimum Wage’

Source:Slate Magazine– a pro-minimum wage rally. Source:The New Democrat “Nine or ten dollars an hour? Twelve? Or all the way to $15? For much of the country, significant minimum wage hikes are coming—at least in the areas where they haven’t … Continue reading

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Liberty Pen: Firing Line With William F. Buckley: Milton Friedman – The Negative Income Tax (1968)

. Source:The New Democrat  I do not like Milton Friedman’s idea of what he called the Negative Income Tax. Or today what people on both the Left and Right are talking about which is the National Basic Income. Because for … Continue reading

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TruthDig: Sonali Kolhatkar: The Year of The Low-Wage Worker

TruthDig: Opinion: Sonali Kolhatkar: The Year of the Low-Wage Worker The New Democrat Before you go about addressing the income gap in America or what others call income inequality, you have to first know why we have it. And no … Continue reading

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Ron Paul: Learn a Little Economics

Source:The New Democrat  If you are talking about raising the minimum wage from $7.25 and hour to 10-12 dollars an hour without any relief for small employers especially people who run, lets say local restaurants or hardware stores, then I … Continue reading

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The New Republic: Noam Scheiber: ‘Raising the Minimum Wage Isn’t Just Good Politics: It’s Good Economics’

Source:The New Republic– supporters for raising the minimum wage. Source:The New Democrat “The minimum-wage debate follows a predictable pattern any time it flares up in the media: Liberals say it’s a moral outrage that people can toil away at full-time … Continue reading

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Thom Hartmann: ‘We Are Subsidizing Low Wage Employers!’

. Source:The New Democrat Here’s an idea. Instead of having taxpayers who mostly work in the middle class be forced to subsidize low-income workers for their food, housing and health care, instead penalize employers who pay their employees so low, … Continue reading

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The Democratic Strategist: Robert Creamer: How to Fight Economic Inequality

Source:The New Democrat  Perhaps someone should explain to me how someone with a good education, who works hard and is very productive and makes a lot of money for the work they do and what they produce, how that is … Continue reading

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