Paying workers less is clearly better for them!

... case on Monday for lowering the minimum wage, suggesting it could be "... we often hear about lowering the minimum wage?" Story continues below... Rosen said the recent minimum wage hike has set off "a furious debate" over its efficacy, and cited a 2008 paper called "Minimum Wages" by David Neumark and William ... Card and Alan B. Krueger called "Minimum Wages and Employment" illustrated various ways ...

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Georgia info

... Broun (R), who's been in the local paper recently regarding the health reform debate. I'm sorry, it's actually Rep. Paul Broun, Jr., M.D. He ... Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States (O rly?) - To provide minimum wage rates for agricultural workers. Johnny Isakson (R) Rep. Isakson is also a realtor and graduate of UGA, as well. He...

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There, I said it: we're screwed

... on unemployment, which shows it will be high for a decade, and this gem from Mises on the minimum wage, which effectively bars anyone under 21 and recent college graduates from getting a job. Adding those two ... someone gets alarmist it turns out to be bullshit (like the climate change debate), but I really am afraid our country's economy is going to implode ...

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News Clips

... effectively to help working families win living wage jobs, stop foreclosures, and strengthen neighborhoods," ACORN... but it does continue to throw this debate out there," she said. The president's ... a new wrinkle to a sharp political debate over the antipoverty group’s activities and ... voter registration drives, and advocates for higher minimum wages and more affordable housing. Conservatives have...

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Another Rant?

... special needs children were making minimum wage. The manager made $80k, ... when there is pointed political debate, you know where he stands, ... because they just let people debate. There is a responsibility for ...5:30-5pm. Im addicted to debate and curious and inspired to ... figure who decides what to debate, who to give the floor ... helps its competitors. Also the debate with healthcare isn't mentioned ...

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Economic Recovery vs Huge Unemployment

... unemployment benefits, passed it by wide bipartisan margins and without debate or hesitation, and the President is expected to sign it ... take you to find a job that pays a similar wage, a job in the same pay range. Unfortunately, the ... many years of experience you have on your resumé, they mean nothing: you're a minimum wage clerk or a burger-flipper again or a day laborer or a telemarketer, at ...

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U-6: 17.5%

...unemployment benefits, passed it by wide bipartisan margins and without debate or hesitation, and the President is expected to sign it...take you to find a job that pays a similar wage, a job in the same pay range. Unfortunately, the...many years of experience you have on your resumé, they mean nothing: you're a minimum wage clerk or a burger-flipper again, at best. No employer will give you credit for...

Tags: economy current events

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Time to Vent

... hard issue. I got into a political debate with one of my co-workers who proclaimed...I don't know anybody personally who makes that much money. That is minimum wage for a starting major league baseball player I believe. People who make $...get a quarter raise, we were making near minimum wage, some of the workers had families. ... spend that money, and provide a living wage in the case that they can. You ...

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20x05 "Dignity" episode discussion

..., Doctor. Whatever it takes. Lupo: Forget the abortion debate. You should need a permit to have kids. Lupo...him. Right. Okay. Bernard: That’s one security guard who just earned his minimum wage. - And yet Bernard demands information from the dad on the killer, pretty forcefully....say yes. Cutter: Nothing further. - Jack and Mike debate time. Cutter: Cats and dogs have more rights than...

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Fic: Promises, Promises (Don’t Send Me Back In 30 Days) [part 2]

...My parents are dead. I’m a month late on my rent already, and I got fired from my shitty minimum wage job at fucking Wal-Mart the day before I met you. I don’t have any family left, and ...especially in comic books, a topic that fueled several long hours’ worth of conversation and debate. As awful as it was, Gerard was Frank’s best friend. They’d connected ...

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