#Wages

Ioana Marinescu

mioana

Don't get me wrong, I am the first to say that employers often underpay workers, but the idea that tax payers subsidize employers is misleading. Food stamps help people, not

Unite in justice for the poor & oppressed

BreeNewsome

We’ll never eliminate homelessness w/o permanent investment in safe, decent public housing & w/o actively removing the stigma that currently surrounds it. Job creation is not a solution to lack

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/5It’s great that the idea of raising minimum wages is become increasingly acceptable. Higher wages, in a world of weak demand, stagnant investment and underutilized resources, will boost business investment

Z.D.

zbigdu

It is important to understand that, unlikr land/wealth taxes, even the most progressive income taxes ultimately fall on the poor. Why? It may appear counterintuitive but the gist is that

Swiss Ramble

SwissRamble

After a couple of requests, I’ve prepared some of the new financial fact sheets for a few Dutch clubs. This thread includes overviews for #Ajax #PSV #Feyenoord and #AZ #Ajax

Arindrajit Dube

arindube

Looks like we all talk about this roughly every 5 years, so here was my discussion on this from 2015: https://arindube.com/2015/04/19/public-assistance-private-subsidies-and-low-wage-jobs/ I mostly agree with Ioana. At the same time,

John Tuld - Wealth Inequality Detector

BradHuston

The 10 Steps of Wealth Inequality. 1. Government uses central bank to print money to facilitate borrowing.2. Fed prints money, corporations and rich are best positioned to quickly borrow at

Child Poverty Action Group

CPAGUK

New #UniversalCredit regulations come in to force today. This follows our successful legal case concerning people paid monthly getting two wages in one UC assessment period. Our head of strategic

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/OK let's talk about immigration and wages.Lots of people think immigration reduces wages, at least for some groups of native-born workers.It is very difficult if not impossible to dissuade them

Shaun

shaun_vids

do any of these "we can't raise the minimum wage because then prices will rise" people have any explanation for why prices rise anyway, even if wages don't? and if

Pamela Herd

pamela_herd

Debates over the minimum wage are as much about politics, as they are about the research. The push for a minimum wage actually came from early 20th century progressive eugenicists

ethan

ethanLUHTRAO

This is a detailed thread about how LITTLE Manchester United spent compared to how much they CAN since Sir Alex Ferguson retired. This is mainly due to the fact that

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

The New Yorker Lies About MLK Assassination

DoItForMaMa

"And as the noted historian, C. Vann Woodward, in his book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, clearly points out, the segregation of the races was really a political stratagem

Nick Hanauer

NickHanauer

This @NYTOpinion editorial is a huge deal—a refutation of the debunked trickle-down dependence on tax cuts and an embrace of the theory of growth I've been promoting for years: Raise

Token Blue Collar Friend

token_blue

Some excellent reporting here from @rrpre but a glaring omission -The state is subsidizing most training for entry level CDL drivers; this is an operational pillar for all large carriers,

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