Higher Minimum Wage, Faster Job Creation
From yesterday’s NYT “Taking Note” Blog by Teresa Tritch: The standard argument against a higher minimum wage is that it will lead to job loss as employers, unable to pay…
From yesterday’s NYT “Taking Note” Blog by Teresa Tritch: The standard argument against a higher minimum wage is that it will lead to job loss as employers, unable to pay…
From the New York Times Editorial Board: The federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is obviously too low. So is the Democrats’ proposed increase to $10.10 an hour by…
From the NYT “Room for Debate” by Robert Reich: By raising its minimum wage to $15, Seattle is leading a long-overdue movement toward a living wage. Most minimum wage workers…
From today’s NYT’s by Kirk Johnson: SEATTLE — The City Council here went where no big-city lawmakers have gone before on Monday, raising the local minimum wage to $15 an…
From the New York Times blog “The Great Divide” by Corey Robin: Midterm elections are like fancy software: Experts love them, end-users couldn’t care less. But if the 2010 elections…
NPR’s David Kestenbaum investigates the question, Does raising the minimum wage kill jobs? Here is an overview: President Obama has called for increasing the minimum wage, saying it will help…
From the New York Times Editorial Board: Republicans sputtered with outrage when the Congressional Budget Office said that immigration reform would lower the deficit, strengthen Social Security and speed up…
From the New York Times by Annie Lowrey: A popular Democratic proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, championed by President Obama, could reduce total employment by…
From the New York Times “Room for Debate”: For the past year, fast-food and retail workers have made it clear that lousy pay should not be the cost for cheap…