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Nick Hanauer Flattens Right Wing Lies On Minimum Wageby Heather at Crooks and Liars
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/06/nick-hanauer-flattens-right-wing-lies
"SNIP.............
HANAUER: The idea that drives that is this incredible, insidious, repeated thing, which is, if jobs go up, employment goes down. If wages go up, employment goes down. [ ]
And the thing is that it has been repeated endlessly in our country and the facts are there is no evidence for this whatsoever, but if you can get the broad public to believe that if wages go up, employment will go down, you get forty years of wage suppression.
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Nonsense. We have been raising the minimum wage for 78 years, and as a new study clearly reveals, 78 years of minimum-wage hikes have produced zero evidence of the "job-killing" consequences these headline writers want us to fear.
.............SNIP"
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)applegrove
(118,778 posts)that work it out to be expensive. I think it should start at 15 across the country. I think it should be that to reflect the workers share of the the higher productivity the USA has.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)you posted as it applies to the candidate you support.
Well done.
pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)holding it FLAT over a decade means we need to do more. FERTILIZE THE BOTTOM, NOT THE TOP!
meow2u3
(24,772 posts)Make the minimum wage $12.50 and index it to inflation. Yes, I mean COLA raises.
moondust
(20,006 posts)the Swiss "1:12 Initiative," an alternative to a national minimum wage that said the best paid employee in an organization shall make no more than 12 times the worst paid employee. It was voted down in a referendum after some greedy corporate execs threatened to move their corporations out of the country if it passed.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/swiss-debate-about-1-12-executive-pay-cap-initiative-heats-up-a-935114.html