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Hayes Brown
HayesBrown
Biden including a $15 minimum wage in his stimulus plan is hugeBiden moving to abolish the tipped minimum wage and sub-minimum wage for people with disabilities in his stimulus package
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Rep. Vikki Goodwin
VikkiGoodwinTX
1/ Let's increase the min wage in TX. When more people earn a living wage, we'll see a decrease in need for welfare programs. We must put value on all
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Daniel Foster
DanFosterType
There are many better explainers out there but for the few followers who may benefit from it: federal minimum wage hikes are conceived of as helping the proverbial young single
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carter
_carter
I've seen a lot of tweets about minimum wage recently, but no one is mentioning a very important term known as "buying power". So let's start with 1970's minimum wage
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the boston cryptid
shocks
For context, the proposal to raise the min wage to $15 in 2025 is equivalent to increasing it by ~$0.48 a year since 2009, the last time it saw an
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Ashley
AshBaloghNM
Minimum wage was always supposed to be a living wage. We passed the “Fair Labor Standards” called the Wages and Hours bill to settle the issue. As FDR said after
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Full Frontal
FullFrontalSamB
The pandemic has put a renewed focus on a working class that now has to risk getting sick on the job, while receiving little to no support. Millions of Americans
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Sen. Jeff Jackson
JeffJacksonNC
You know what adjusts for inflation on a regular basis?The maximum donation you can make to a politician in NC. You know what doesn’t adjust for inflation?The minimum wage. That’s
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Ho, Melusine!
fabiansociety
just for funsies, i plugged the proposed minimum wage increase into my federal minimum wage chart For the purple line, I've adjusted all values to 2021 dollars, and assumed a
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Michael J. Hicks
HicksCBER
1/n My modest contribution to the #econtwitter minimum wage discussion. I wanted to see where potential employment effects might occur, and used the 60% threshold that @arindube QJE, 2019 paper
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Amanda Cross
happyarkansan
When I hear arguments about minimum wage jobs being for high school kids I am honestly shocked at how out of touch people are. I live in a small town
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Ernie Tedeschi
ernietedeschi
#CPSMicrodataDay A few interesting nuggets. Wage growth is difficult to get a handle on right now, since official data uses averages that have been skewed by low wage job losses.
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Progressive Caucus
USProgressives
BIG NEWS: the Progressive Caucus has secured the inclusion of a $15 minimum wage in the House's pandemic reconciliation package.This has been a leading priority for our caucus and would
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Mental Health Master v2021
quintonclawson
You aren’t mad that someone might get paid 15$ an hour flipping patties or organizing shelves.You’re mad because you’re realizing you’re also underpaid.Average cost of living is 40k+ in the
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Economic Policy Institute
EconomicPolicy
Our new report finds that a $15 minimum wage would increase tax revenue by between $7 billion to $13.9 billion and reduce expenditures on public assistance programs by between $13.4
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Poli Sci Bitches
poliscibitches
I don’t understand the “but where will the money come from” argument on minimum wage. Do people think the cost of a living wage only exists when you actually pay
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