Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

California progressives raise minimum wage to $20, fast food jobs go up in smoke, man loses long career just like that

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  “Between last fall and January,” Ohanian wrote, “California fast-food  restaurants cut  about 9,500 jobs, representing a 1.3% change from...

California fast food now more expensive since minimum wage hike

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nbclosangeles.com California fast-food prices are up as much as 8% since minimum wage hi...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Drudge must pay federal minimum wage to some dolt to write these illiterate headlines

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  ARTIC BLAST SET FOR USA...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

The minimum wage of $0.40/hour from 1938 adjusted for inflation to today

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 $8.71 Cry more.
Sunday, May 29, 2022

Nancy Pelosi made sure the increase in the federal minimum wage to $7.25 in 2007 didn't apply to then-tuna capital American Samoa, and they still don't make it 15 years later

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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Fox News knucklehead: Colombian government proposals "would likely exasperate inequalities"

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The government’s proposal to slash the minimum wage, salaries, and pension funds would likely exasperate these inequalities and was also a ...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Trump shill Andy Puzder complains of non-existent labor shortage, suggests more legal immigration while 3 million teenagers sit idle

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Labor Shortage May Imperil Growth : [T]he tight labor market is the elephant in the room. ... In July, the most recent month for whic...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Newsweek's communist spin machine calls Bernie Sanders' cutting the hours of staff in order to pay $15 an hour "better hours"

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Bernie Sanders Campaign Responds to $15 Minimum Wage Controversy with Better Hours for Staff: Bernie Sanders will limit the amount of t...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Tucker Carlson says there's nothing free about this market, falls short of calling it an expression of global fascism

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But who knows, maybe his forthcoming book connects the dots between the multinational corporations and their revolving door governments, a...
Friday, August 10, 2018

Yakima Washington Herald lets the cat out of the bag: American fruit grower rich enough to buy hotel to house foreign labor complains they make too much

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Growers want more, cheaper guest workers : Rob Valicoff is relying on 270 guest workers this year to pick his 1,700 acres of apples...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

Here's an extreme he hasn't thought of: Maybe try paying more than "above minimum wage"

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The minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, but low-skilled jobs in Michigan start at $10.00 an hour, and pay even higher than that for competent, ...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Bernie Sanders understands open borders is what the libertarian Koch brothers want, but he doesn't

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Here , where he says open borders are harmful to ordinary Americans' wages. Why is it the only prominent politician who really t...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Your kid probably isn't working this summer like he should be, because of the minimum wage and cheap immigrant labor

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The population level of teenagers in 2017 has recovered to 1978 levels, but only 29% are employed in May 2017 vs. 47% in May 1978. T...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

Make teenagers work again: Repeal the minimum wage

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3.3 million fewer teens work in 2016 than in 1978 even though the size of this population in 2016 is the same as in the late '70s...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

WaPo doesn't mention the minimum wage is too high and attracts cheaper illegal immigrant workers, displacing teenagers, which is just fine with them

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There are all kinds of jobs not worth the minimum wage of $7.25, and we should abolish it forwith. Youth employment would surge, as would ...
Friday, May 6, 2016

Trump is right that wages are too high: The minimum wage should be reduced to $4.20 per hour, not raised, to put teenagers back to work

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Trump was right when he said during the debates that wages are too high. He was referring to our comparative disadvantage as a nation w...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Obama's poor make an emotional appearance at Iowa Democrat town hall, woman speaks of her shame

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From the story here : SANDERS: I want to hear what it is like if people, know people or themselves, what is it like to live on $12,0...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Charles Cook embraces the impotence of contemporary conservatism faced with Donald Trump

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Where else but in National Review  here , the locus of conservatism as ineffectual cult and ideology, which finds it impossible to revolt ...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Surprise: Lefty Michael Tomasky wants to punish the middle class with an increase in the regressive gasoline tax

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Here in "Pony Up, Middle Class, for a Gas Tax", recommending Hillary do it in 2017 like her husband did with income taxes in 19...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

22 States and DC raise minimum wage this year: Expect teen employment to remain in depression or decline further

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Teen employment levels today at 4.6 million are still 2.9 million below their 2006 peak of almost 7.5 million. This is not just an a...