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 …
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Momentum Building against Wage Theft
http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wadesworldfeb28.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans Increasingly I get the feeling that there is real momentum building against the standard operating procedure of company’s ripping off their workers on wages. The courts are not necessarily the workers’ friends on these issues though. For example a recent ruling against steelworkers …
Swiss and NWRO Have Right Ideas for Ending Poverty in Income Guarantees
New Orleans In an assessment of the “war on poverty” almost 50 years after President Lyndon Johnson sounded the battle cry, Eduardo Porter in the Times noted that the real progress has only been to move the enemy lines from 19% of the American people to 16% of the population. Part of the problem is …