#Wage

1) Since Priti Patel has been given front page space for her evidence-free theory about how "fear of racism" is to blame for Leicester's sweatshops, I thought I'd do a
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The same Bill Morneau that:-Cut health care to historic lows, -Oversaw massive privatization via the infrastructure bank-Subsidized oil & gas companies at $3.3B/year-Gave wage subsidies to employers during covid with
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Arsenal have stated before that they don’t want to let players’ contracts run into two seasons remaining. Sign or be sold.Complications: players content on high salaries - particularly older onesHere
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We need to be sober and rigorous when evaluating the positives and negatives of emergency UI, and not be wooed by simple, emotional stories. There's no evidence in the data
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Yes! Here are some current lessons we are learning from our research participants regarding #FoodInsecurity and #COVID19 food programs https://twitter.com/JustHarvest/status/1336414370776178691 1. Increasing benefits for SNAP eligible famil
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Unpopular opinion time.This is a good policy.The logic is pretty simple. All wage workers are also consumers.https://twitter.com/FT/status/1354661769294319616 People erroneously jump to the basic conclusion that wage floors *always* result
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People mistakenly assume that the World Bank's poverty line ($1.90 PPP per day) represents what an American might be able to buy with $1.90 in poor countries abroad. But in
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In September CEWS subsidy rates were reduced, and business cried foul. But what impact did it really have?https://financesofthenation.ca/2020/12/02/news-about-cews/ The average subsidy per worker fell sharply in September (Period 7), after
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While we wait to find out the details of #lockdownontario let me say the following about where to find help this time around: 1) There has been a lot of
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I'm so over politicians talking about ppl who wouldn't go to work during the pandemic because they were making more on unemployment than if they went to work.I'd like to
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I think the reason people are fixated on the $2000 checks is because that's immediate in a way the other stuff in the bill isn't. Minimum wage increase is great!
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Last week @akuareindorf and @ATLEUnit won a case saying that the "family worker" exemption from the minimum wage is unlawful. Is a *big win*. Here's my piece on domestic workers'
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When I first moved to St. John’s I got a career level job. Meaning salaried, great benefits, comfortable living wage. When I finally got health insurance from this job, I
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Are you scared of the the #JobGuarantee?Have you heard that it's hostile or antithetical to welfare or unions? Let me try to help. 1. The JG is a missing piece
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“The health care-sector workforce is racialized in that BIPOC are concentrated in female-dominated direct care and reproductive occupations, occupations that reflects our historic dependence WOC—and especially Black women—to perform t
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People who are saying the board have let Wilder down want to take a hard look at themselves. Of all the things we could blame the board isn’t one of
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