#Wage

Jonathan Portes

jdportes

This is completely bizarre. Enforcement of the National Minimum Wage is the responsibility of *central government* not the local authority.https://twitter.com/MsHelicat/status/1282057165310754818 Can't read whole story yet but I hope @S

Jeff still hasn't paid Taliban to kill US troops

NewJeffCT

Before the colossal failure of the Trump Covid-19 response, Donny was touting the economy and a “Blue Collar Boom” in wages for the working class. He will say he can

Rose Klein 🌈 is very gay

rosequartzklein

If this doesn't radicalize you, look at it again. Wow okay, this is doing numbers because it should.Source: http://www.tcworkerscenter.org/2018/09/wage-theft-vs-other-forms-of-theft-in-the-u-s/https://www.epi.org/publication/epidemic-wa

Brian Kennedy II

BrianEKennedy2

A few thoughts on living wage estimates:1. Estimates that only calculate costs for 1 adult ignore the reality that A LOT of people support loved ones, even if they're not

YourFavBlackAuntie

greendoondoon

You want to know why besides the obvious that fast-food, retail workers and others many deem ‘low-skilled’ deserve a living wage? Because some of those people really like those jobs.

aub

AubreeNoelle2

If you’re saying raising minimum wage won’t work because corporations and CEOs will just raise everything so they can keep their “comfortable salary” then my people....you are SO close to

Josh Shahryar (they/them) #BLM

JShahryar

Let's check the economic impact of Biden's minimum wage plan with some basic econ. In 2018, 1.8 people in the US had jobs at exactly the minimum wage of $7.25

Arindrajit Dube

arindube

This short thread summarizes my thinking the perennial question about minimum: "how high is OK?"Tl;dr: we don't yet know, and that's ok.1/ First of all, in the US, the $7.25

comrade house fire ☭

RedKlutz

It's the duality of labor. Capital posits reproduction ("non-valuable") as the opposite of commodity production ("valuable"), with the appearance of domestic & sexual labor as "socially natural" & &

Jupiter fka Imani ✨

imaniloves_you

When I wrote Kia's Law in honor of Markia Nelson, I resigned myself to supporting the notion that the minimum wage should be an arbitrary number, like $15/hr. That upholds

Arindrajit Dube

arindube

People who think minimum wage is just an inevitably controversial topic in politics & economics should spend some time studying the U.K.Tl;dr. UK used to be like the US back

Chris Becker

jcbecker93

“all economic theories imply that minimum wages should be decided at the state and local level” Nonsense. That’s exactly how you subsidize labor exploitation in poor regions. Which is borne

John Arnold

JohnArnoldFndtn

One consequence of the rural/urban partisan divide is that almost all of the Democratic Party infrastructure comes from large cities and doesn't have a natural understanding of rural conditions. The

Maggie Burton

mmburton

I disagree that a living wage really depends on context and individual definitions. It’s based on needs and is calculated to be about $18/hour in NL if I am not

Iola Ella

IolaElla

Support for full employment or Job Guarantee policies from folks like Coretta Scott King, Pauli Murray, Sadie Alexander, and even the Black Panther Party I think shows it has a

Frank J. Fleming

IMAO_

"They can just raise the price of a burger 25 cents to cover the new wage."If restaurants could raise prices with no consequence to sales, wouldn't they already have done

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