Minimum Wage

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That's one word for it.
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1989

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In June, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by
4 cents to $26.25. Over the year, average hourly earnings have risen by 63 cents, or 2.5
percent. In June, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory
employees increased by 4 cents to $22.03. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)
 

Catatonic

Nine Lives
In June, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by
4 cents to $26.25. Over the year, average hourly earnings have risen by 63 cents, or 2.5
percent. In June, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory
employees increased by 4 cents to $22.03. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)
Those are not wages ... just too high.
At least for Atlanta.
 

Babagounj

Strength through joy
Since the limit for H2B workers in Maine has been reached , The Maine Chamber of Commerce has taken the unusual task of trying to get locals to work in York Beach . Some are offering the retired to return to the workforce for as little as a couple of hours a week . Workers are needed in every possible job there is , from street cleaners to being deckhands on boats.
In August York Beach is over run by Canadians on holiday.
 

rickyb

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from ralph nader radio hour:


Ben Zipperer is an economist at the Economic Policy Institute. His areas of expertise include the minimum wage, inequality, and low-wage labor markets. Prior to that, Dr. Zipperer was research economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He is a senior research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and a research associate at the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley.

The skeptics of minimum wage increases have been consistently shown to be wrong by very careful economic research… minimum wages – at least the kinds typically passed in the United States – tend to do their job. And what I mean by that is they tend to raise the wages of low wage workers and give them higher income; and they do so with very little to no negative costs in terms of employment losses.”
 
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