#Wage

Nicole Lee Schroeder

Nicole_Lee_Sch

When I was 16 my first job was at McDonald's. Now I'm months away from defending my dissertation for my PhD. I've had many jobs in between - research assistant,

Pickle Horse-Man, Ecumenical Meta-Heresiologist

picklehomer

one k00l thing that I like about "if we raise the minimum wage, then some people won't be employable because their work/skill/etc doesn't justify the higher minimum wage" is that

Michael Paulauski

mike10010100

So weird to see progressives turn on... progressive tax credit policy.Probably because tax credits aren't cool enough. I mean they'll halve child poverty, but who wants that? And $15 minimum

Greg Siskind

gsiskind

I've gone through the 185 page new H-1B rule changing the H-1B lottery to one that's wage based (though still a lottery of sorts). 1 The rule is final but

Jennifer Scheurle

Gaohmee

Did you know that police officers don't even make it into the top 10 of most dangerous jobs in America? No? Everything you've been culturally told about this profession is

TheAccountant

JTheAccountant

Common sense- if an individual thinks they'll need money in the next 12 months, due to economic uncertainty(COVID,lockdowns,SEC) they should convert to USD or their national currency to pay their

comrade house fire ☭

RedKlutz

interesting note about the club i work atthe DJs are paid by the club & tipped by dancersthe bouncers are paid by the club & tipped by dancersthe valet are

becca.........hallstedt - they/them

beccahallstedt

Oh hello, are we talking about ratesFreelanced for $80/hour. Would upcharge for rush jobs. No less than $65/hour. Raise your rates. Imo, 3x local hourly minimum wage is an okay

John B. Holbein

JohnHolbein1

Does raising the minimum wage reduce the number of low-wage jobs?No."We also find no evidence of disemployment when we consider higher levels of minimum wages."https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/134/3/1405/5484905 Minimum wage i

Joe Sanberg #WearAMask

JosephNSanberg

The GOP plan to cut unemployment benefits this week is clearly heartless, but the less obvious point is that it's also inept. I'm a businessman who's co-founded a large company,

Chrystia Freeland

cafreeland

As a Toronto MP, and a mother of children back at school in Toronto, I fully support the extension of lockdown restrictions in Toronto by another week. As we look

A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon

JuliusGoat

Every argument against raising the minimum wage involves pointing to some other part of our broken system as if it were a beloved cultural treasure to defend rather than just

Alex Morss 🌍⏳

morss_alex

Very welcome! Hope it knocks Amazon off its exploitative perch. It looks better than Hive, who drive down prices & that exploits everyone massively. This alternative appears to give far

Alfredo Paloyo

AlfredoPaloyo

I worked on an earlier version with Hanna Frings (@RWI_Leibniz) and Philipp vom Berge (@iab_news) of a paper looking at an industry-specific min wage in Germany. The disemployment effect turns

Sherry Frost 🆘 🏳️‍🌈🖤

frostnhstaterep

Thread.I need to explain something that a lot of people don’t understand about how the NH House does its workhttps://twitter.com/frostnhstaterep/status/1357828898403348481 Unlike the Congress, every bill that is submitted to the

Natasha Ngan is working on GIRLS 3! 📚

girlinthelens

Bc of course the privilege and library issue has come up.. just want to clarify that I am only discussing this in terms of people emailing an author directly, and

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