minimum wage

I think a big misconception is that minimum wage helps the very poor because it forces businesses to pay a minimum wage per hour for employees. I guess the way that some people see it, it is to keep the way employees are treated fair and ensure that the very poor aren't being paid $1.00/hour...

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Mitt Romney recently indicated that he supports raising the federal minimum wage by tying increases in the minimum wage to inflation. Romney said : “I haven’t changed my thoughts on that…” See: Romney Vs. Gingrich On The Minimum Wage And what about Gingrich while he was speaker of the...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/mitt-romney-south-carolina-minimum-wage_n_1200418.html This should give some Romney supporters a second thought. I can't believe he said this. :confused:

http://libertysolutions.org/2011/12/13/businesses-hurting-as-san-francisco-raises-minimum-wage/

Unintended Consequences beginning in...3...2...1 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073138/Minimum-wage-San-Francisco-1st-city-America-10.html

.....would not be the issue that it is today? Let's face it, there is no point in discussing illegal immigration unless we address real points. A lot of illegal immigrants come to this country and work jobs that nobody would want to work at the minimum wage (higher in certain states than the...

...Wal-Mart's unfair labor practices. great daily show piece. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-september-20-2010/working-stiffed?xrs=share_copy

Raising wages to fight inflation is counter- productive. This will raise producer costs which will in turn be passed along to consumers in the form of even higher inflation. A nasty spiral. It may help politically in the short term, but economically it is not helpful in the long term...

Australia's minimum wage is about 15 dollars an hour.

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Walter Williams - Minimum Wage as a Racist Tool ======= Up from the Projects: An Autobiography - Walter E. Williams Walter Williams' autobiography Up from the Projects is the kind of book that you hate to put down, even though I already knew how the story would end. Walter...

Minimum Wage's Discriminatory Effects by Walter E. Williams As if more proof were needed about the minimum wage's devastating effects, yet another study has reached the same conclusion. Last week, two labor economists, Professors William Even (Miami University of Ohio) and David Macpherson...

More juicy bits below... http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2011/0427/Why-many-Venezuelans-scoff-at-Chavez-s-minimum-wage-hike

I think the minimum wage argument is an effective one to debate with progressives and liberals, especially when there are observers witnessing the debate. It's an extremely easy topic to back them into a corner on, once you grasp the basic logic of it. All you need to do is just give them a...

The NH House passed HB 133 to end the NH minimum wage by a vote of 239 to 106. The federal minimum wage would still apply. Currently, NH is one of the states that has a minimum wage law but has it set at the same rate as the federal government...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/03/16/bc-minimum-wage-clark.html "B.C.'s minimum wage is going up to $8.75 as of May 1, Premier Christy Clark announced Wednesday. The province's current rate has remained at $8 an hour for ten years and is the lowest in Canada. It will go up again...

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