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Young Dro - F.D.B. (Explicit) BlackPeopleMeet.com - Black Dating Network for Black Singles. Raising the Minimum Wage: An Overview: Points of View. Point: The Minimum Wage Should be raised. Minimum wage hike good for economy, taxpayers. Through a translator, Bernardo Chimoro, of Central Falls, tells Kate Brewster, of the Economic Progress Institute, and congressmen David Cicilline and Jim Langevin why raising the minimum wage would help him and others in his community.
(Photo by Bob Plain) If corporate America was still run by businessmen like Henry Ford, we probably wouldn’t need to have a minimum wage law. Ford, said Congressman Jim Langevin recently, “wanted his workers to earn a wage that was sufficient for them to buy an automobile that he produced. He recognized with a strong middle class, with a strong working class, that the economy does better, and his company did better.” Of course, somewhere along the way the business ethic of Henry Ford was subverted by that of the Koch brothers – making a meaningful minimum wage more important than ever to the American economy. “Raising the minimum wage is trickle down economics that actually works,” Langevin said. Share. Should Congress Increase the Federal Minimum Wage and Index It to Inflation...: Points of View Reference Center Home. Why We Should Raise the Minimum Wage | Raise The Minimum Wage. With the worst recession in a generation still being felt across the nation, state and federal leaders are focused on getting their economies moving again while helping working families make ends meet.
Raising the minimum wage is a key strategy for doing both and should be part of an economic recovery agenda. This briefing paper details the positive impact of raising the minimum wage – and indexing it to inflation so that it does not continue to fall in real value every year – on working families, local businesses and state economies. By boosting pay in the low-wage jobs on which more families are relying than ever, a stronger minimum wage will help restore the consumer spending that powers our economy and that local businesses need in order to grow. A robust minimum wage is a key building block of sustainable economic recovery. For more information, please download our January 2011 Briefing Paper. The Minimum Wage Debate: Who's Right? Should Congress Increase the Federal Minimum Wage and Index It to Inflation...: Points of View Reference Center Home. The minimum-wage debate - bad idea. President Obama, left, delivers the State of the Union address to a joint… (Charles Dharapak / Bloomberg ) In announcing his wrongheaded proposal to increase the minimum wage to $9 an hour, President Obama spoke in lofty terms: "In the wealthiest nation on Earth," he said in his State of the Union address last month, "no one who works full time should have to live in poverty.
" If the debate proceeds as it has -- many times -- in the past, then most Democrats will embrace the president's message and back the proposal, while most Republicans will oppose it, on the grounds that higher labor costs will lead to higher unemployment. For The Record Los Angeles Times Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 11 Editorial Desk 0 inches; 18 words Type of Material: Correction Minimum wage: In a March 10 Op-Ed article, coauthor Kevin A. Hassett's surname was misspelled in the byline. But we shouldn't rely on political opinions in this debate. Why? Point: The Negative Impact of Corporal Punishment.