In upstate New York’s economic desert, Cuomo’s minimum wage boost will make government the employer of first resort.
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Courage Or Chutzpah?
Tag Archives: Minimum Wage
Who Pays For A Higher Minimum Wage?
If you raise the price of goods, or labor, it isn’t the wealthy who feel the pain.
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Wal-Mart’s Pickle-Mopper Problem
Wal-Mart has too many pickle-moppers among its 1.3 million U.S. workers. To support higher wages, many will have to go.
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In Politics, Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud
Wal-Mart is coming to the nation’s capital, but D.C. youth must pay a political price.
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D.C. Fires At Wal-Mart And Wounds Itself
Unemployment for teenagers and part-timers is not a side effect of “living wage” laws. Eliminating low-wage labor is the goal.
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Time To Put Unemployment Front And Center
Unemployment here is not much better than in Spain. If we don’t act soon, two generations of workers may be lost.
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Teenagers Face A Jobless Summer
With school out for the summer, teens are finding all sorts of ways to forget what they learned during the year. But less than a quarter of older teens are putting their time off to its traditional use by temporarily trading report cards for paychecks.
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Washington Loses Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart’s unshocking decision to break a promise it made to Washington, D.C.
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