More much ado about nothing. Yesterday, Naomi Brockwell and I attended a demonstration
demanding that fast-food restaurants boost their minimum wage to
$15 per hour, or a little more than double the current federal
minimum wage. The strike, which was led by a group called Fast Food Forward that’s
affiliated with the Service ... MORE
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Jim Epstein: What We Saw At NYC's Fast Food Strike
More much ado about nothing. Yesterday, Naomi Brockwell and I attended a demonstration
demanding that fast-food restaurants boost their minimum wage to
$15 per hour, or a little more than double the current federal
minimum wage. The strike, which was led by a group called Fast Food Forward that’s
affiliated with the Service ... MOREDoug Altner: Why 1.4 Million Americans Work At Wal-Mart
With many more trying to. Observe any hiring center for a new Walmart and you will see thousands of individuals eager to become a Walmart associate. Many already have jobs at fast food restaurants, supermarkets, or other retail stores. LaShawn Ross, 29, worked for McDonald’s and Winn-Dixie before taking a job at a brand new ... MOREGeorge Leef: Minimum Wage Alchemy
Not just economically bad, philosophically cancerous. The driving force behind Obamacare was the absurd belief that through legislation and regulation, the government could make many healthcare consumers better off without making any of them worse off. As we are now discovering, the truth is the reverse of that – hardly anyone ... MOREMinimum Wage Kills Jobs For Low-Skill Workers
by Antony Davies, James R. Harrigan. We are rarely subjected to debate over the minimum wage apart from election season, but America's painfully sluggish return to economic normalcy has politicians scrambling to do something to help the working class. While the minimum wage debate usually plays out at the federal level, there is now ... MOREWalter E Williams: You Don't Have To Stay Poor
Come early, stay late. No one can blame you if you start out in life poor, because how you start is not your fault. If you stay poor, you're to blame because it is your fault. Nowhere has this been made clearer than in Dennis Kimbro's new book, "The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires." Kimbro, a business professor at Clark ... MOREJay Ambrose: Why The Minimum Wage Doesn't Make Sense
We don't need barriers to employment. Impersonality or treating others as mere functions cheats us all, and so I engage in give-and-take with clerks, asking them about their lives, how they like their jobs, anything that doesn't seem to be overreaching. And I learn, as I have repeatedly learned talking to clerks at Walmart. One of them, ... MOREKatrina Trinko: Standing Up To The Unions
Even Dems are opposing outrageous union demands. Even in California, the buck stops occasionally. The final outcome is not yet clear, but even a four-day strike against BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, the rail system that serves San Francisco and the surrounding area) in July and the threat of a longer one haven’t won transit-union workers ... MORE
Sheldon Richman: How To Help Fast-Food Workers
Raising the minimum wage will hurt, not help. Doubling the minimum wage may seem like a good way to help fast-food workers, but it would hurt them instead. So what should we do? We must sweep away the government-created barriers to income earning, barriers that protect established businesses from competition and rob the most ... MORE
Mike Flynn: Black Teen Unemployment Rate At 41.6%
And some what to further raise minimum wage. Friday's jobs report was disappointing, but it also contained a truly heartbreaking statistic. Black teen unemployment is a shocking 41.6%. In July last year, the unemployment was considerably lower, at 36%. That almost half of black teens who want to work can't find jobs is a stain on ... MOREWould A Higher Minimum Wage Help McDonald's Workers?
by Art Carden. In the recent fury over a proposed budget for low-wage workers circulated by McDonald’s, Forbes contributor Laura Shin asked “Will the McDonald’s Employee Budget help Get the Minimum Wage Raised?”
I hope not, but not just for the sake of McDonald’s customers and
shareholders. I hope not for the sake of ... MORETax Bracket Chart: California's War On The Working Class
9.3% state income tax on $47,000 of earnings. Technically, you don't have just one "tax bracket" - you pay all of the California marginal tax rates from the lowest tax bracket to the tax bracket in which you earned your last dollar. For comparison purposes, however, your California tax bracket is the tax bracket in which your last ... MORE74% Of Small Business Will Fire Workers, Cut Hours
Paul Bedard on the effects of ObamaCare. Despite the administration's controversial decision to delay forcing companies to join Obamacare for a year, three-quarters of small businesses are still making plans to duck the costly law by firing workers, reducing hours of full-time staff, or shift many to part-time, according to a sobering survey ... MORED.W. MacKenzie: Mythology Of The Minimum Wage
The economic case for a living wage is unfounded. Once again politicians and pundits are calling for increases in the legal minimum wage. Their reasons are familiar. Market wages are supposedly immoral. People need to earn a "living wage." If the minimum wage went up at least to $7, or better still to near $10 an hour, millions would be ... MORE
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