Kiln One of my projects for my wor-cation had been to finally finish reading Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. I had ordered the book from the first notice, read 50 pages, and then just couldn’t see hauling the weight on airplanes. I even read that Amazon e-book surveys based on noting “underlining” on …
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Minimum Wage Increases for Tipped Employees are Critical
London Great news from Seattle as a major US city stepped up and put workers on track to make $15 per hour. Regular minimum wage workers would see their wages in smaller enterprises go up steadily until 2021 to achieve that level. Big employers with 500 or more workers, like Amazon, would get there between …
Minimum Wage Only Rising in Small Steps Despite $15 Per Hour Demand
New Orleans It seems we may be involved in a protracted bit of high-low bargaining over minimum wages in the political and policy areas. The President has pushed for an increase of the federal minimum from the current $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour. The minimum wage has been frozen since the last year …