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EconLog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Like Bryan, I received the same request from the same friend: what question(s) would I want to put on a survey of economists. My response was that I would want the question on the minimum wage asked accurately instead of sloppily. Here's how the issue was posed in the famous 1976 survey that was reported in J. R. Kearl, Clayne L. Pope, Gordon C. Whiting, and Larry T. Wimmer, "A Confusion of Economists?"...
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Say Anything (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Again and again liberals have insisted that one of the best ways to help with America’s unemployment problem is to expand unemployment benefits. In fact, expanded unemployment benefits were part of the “stimulus” spending spree that was supposed to create more jobs . Throughout critics such as myself have pointed out that making it easier to be unemployed at the expense of the people...
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Labourlist (Free subscription) | yesterday
By David Green / @ItsDaveGreen Let’s admit it: the next election is going to be a tough one to win. This is especially true in London, where there are a number of critical marginals – particularly in outer London, which is prone to larger-than-average swings, which were to our benefit in the last three elections. Money, too, is an issue: many London Conservative Associations have almost...
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Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers already are squeezed by tight credit, rising health care costs, wary consumers and a higher minimum wage. Now, the surging jobless rate is imposing another cost. It's forcing higher state taxes on companies to pay for unemployment insurance claims.
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Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Dr. Bob: It's all the Christians' fault Get ready for the Turkey Flu! We're all gonna die! Two Teens. h/t, Lucianne How the minimum wage has killed jobs for teens and college kids John at P'line: Alarmists do "science" Yes, neoneo: Beginning Saturday, at a Senate far from you: health care disaster in the making? Am Thinker: Let's all overwhelm the prisons with insurance-refusers Related:...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Employers already squeezed by tight credit, rising health care costs, wary consumers and a higher minimum wage are facing another imposing cost thanks to the surging jobless rate.
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Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
HASSAN: The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) will organise a State-level rally in Bangalore on November 25 and 26 seeking food security and a minimum wage of Rs. 6,000 a month for workers. It will also protest against price rise and ...
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Noclue (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Hence lack of posts over the past few days) The Job centre recently came up with a nursing job comprising of nightshift to be worked every weekend, salary payable at the basic minimum wage …..the employers “ don’t do ” time and a half and double time as you would expect from any weekend work, and they "don't do" additional wage structures for working unsociable...
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The Rant (Free subscription) | yesterday
In this episode, myself and fellow Rant author 'John' (Craig) discuss wiretapping and liberties, conscription and the minimum wage. Episode 2 coming soon. littlelittlerants.blogspot.com Conservative rants
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Right Mind (Free subscription) | yesterday
You can directly blame the minimum wage hike for this. As economists predicted, those who are hurt the worst by raising the minimum wage are those on the bottom of the economic ladder: the young, the poorly educated, etc. From the New York Times : And this one might surprise you, unless you’ve been following the “man-cession” statistics....( read more )
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Liars and Lunatics (Free subscription) | yesterday
The tiny part of my black, withered soul that had somehow managed to survive the past 36 years intact and untainted was finally crushed once and for all on Friday night. In Asda.* I promised The Girl that I’d pick something up for dinner on my way home, and much as I hate setting foot in the miserable pit of despair otherwise known as Asda, it’s the only supermarket near where I work and,...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
The way we treat people with dementia suggests we're a long way from being the caring country we claim to be Even after last week's storms, a praetorian handful of leaves still gamely cling to the lower branches of the oak in our garden. And in churches on Sunday the lists of the sick and the dying and the recently deceased will be announced and our prayers will be sought for them all. At this time...
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post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
It was a bad idea in 1997, and it's a bad idea now. Twelve years ago then-Councilman Gene Ricciardi proposed having the city set a wage floor for employees of city contractors and recipients of grants, loans or subsidies from city taxpayers. The plan, which was not adopted, would have forced those employers to pay their nonconstruction workers $7.71 an hour or more, compared to the federal minimum...
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NEW PAPYRUS (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
In the November 20 Wall Street Journal Environmental Capital blog , Duke Energy boss, Jim Rogers argues that nuclear power will probably replace coal in the long run in the US by 2050. Additionally, he argues that nuclear power creates more jobs than wind and solar and at a higher level of pay: "In an operation of a nuclear plant, there [are] .64 jobs per megawatt. The wind business–and...
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I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
By David Saks The late Irving Kristol once defined a liberal as someone who, upon witnessing a fourteen-year-old girl engaging in a live sex act, worries about whether she is getting the minimum wage. It was the same Kristol who described a neo-conservative as a liberal who has been “mugged by reality”. Kristol himself is widely regarded as neo-conservatism’s foremost intellectuals,...
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