#Wage

Per Bylund

PerBylund

The problem with #politics is that it exaggerates and makes (empty) slogans out of what we know. This applies to the #minimumwage too, where proponents of increasing it claim it

RopesToInfinity

RopesToInfinity

Even though I've always kind of understood that, for a lot of people, the existence of poverty is necessary and performs a key function in their ideology, it still always

KEPT THE FAITH, BABY! SI SE PUEDE!

JamesMWilliam18

THREADIn the United States, it is legal to pay differently-abled individuals, like my son with #autism, less than the minimum wage for a person doing the same job. For years,

the boston cryptid

shocks

https://twitter.com/kevinwglass/status/1349871788222771203 This is the extent to which I’m willing to engage in minimum wage discourse today. It’s been 12 years since there was any increase in the federal wage. If

Andy McKellar

AMcKellar89

Someone posted the humiliating 5-0 defeat to Celtic on here the other day to display how far we’ve come in less than 3 years. That gap was underpinned by a

DVS

A_DVS_NTT

People always using military pay scale to argue against a raise of the minimum wageSo here’s a thread explaining why you just look dumb if you make that comparison

Larry Mishel

LarryMishel

Some comments to see if clarification of terminology, what's to be explained, and policy implications can reveal common ground, or not. @Econ_Marshall @hshierholz @joshbivens_DC @jschmittwdc @snaidunl @arindube @profsheena @brian_callac

Dragon Soup

DragonSoupArt

Hey so while we are having this conversation about minimum wage in America, I want to call out all you people taking low cost commissions to "be nice." Stop. You

Eban Schletter

EbanSchletter

When wage discussions focus on "skilled" vs "unskilled", we prop up a value system that ignores the fundamental value of life itself. If you spend 8+ hrs/day at a job,

Yessica

YessicaYesOrNo

Anger gets a bad rap from the live-laugh-love brunch bunch but it’s actually a really fantastic alternative to depression. Anger can be incredibly self protective and productive. Anger can keep

Corporate Machiavelli (Attending To Final Matters)

corporatemach

THREAD: Class Warefare: "We are all in this together!" is a lie.The interests of the rich and the interests of the poor are not perfectly aligned. Indeed, they are often

Jesse Wursten

JesseWursten

Lots of talk on the potential negative effects of minimum wages, but in a new paper with Michael Reich (@IRLEUCB) we show that minimum wages also have positive side effects,

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MorlockP

or maybe it's an indication that compensation is paid with a basket of goods that includes salary, schedule flexibility, corporate culture, location, etc.A mom w young kids in elementary school

talia JANE

itsa_talia

i watched the 5 to 9 depression anthem. the thesis of the song is being stuck in a deadend job but using your off time to build your passion. it

Bes D. Socialist

besf0rt

the greates obstacle to organizing the working class is wage labor itself. people need to work long hours to survive, they come home late, are physically & mentally exhausted, need

Dominic

D_Rodders

This is rearing it's head again. For a supposedly sensible profession, a lot of people are financially illiterate. For a UK undergraduate, this debt is basically meaningless. When starting out,

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