Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
The American economy, ever-adapting to an evolving global marketplace, is leaving many folks behind. There are many metrics that bear this out, among them the widening gap between the wealthiest and poorest Americans.
These workers are taking matters into their own hands--with one day strikes--in the finest tradition of the workers who gave the rest of us the weekend, overtime pay, and an end to child labor.
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Bruce, your link isn't working because you cut off the h at the start of the url when you copied & pasted it. You should be able to correct it easily by editing it now that I have commented on the post.
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/28/2013 - 10:26am
Thanks AA, will do. I think it's fixed now.
by Bruce Levine on Sun, 07/28/2013 - 10:30am
Obama, realizing his hard sell of granting 11 MILLION undocumented workers Amnesty, he now hits the stump to tell those who have been hurt by his leadership, we have to do something...... Granting 11 million more workers amnesty, when there is already a problem in wage disparity and the number of workers to jobs, mocks our intelligence. Idiot? Thank God he'll be out of office soon enough, hopefully before he does more harm. having already helped the banker class, with more money in their pockets, it appears he wants to put more money in business leaders pockets also, by supporting cheap labor, performed by 11 million more workers to compete for the crumbs. WAKE UP America, Obama is not the prize, he is but the Trojan horse, sent to decimate the middle class, despite his fine speeches. The good paying jobs will never return, the only thing we're getting, is cheap labor to replace American workers, who won't work that cheap. Having lost your pension, you too can get back into the workforce and fight for the crumbs, that fall from the masters table.
by Resistance on Sun, 07/28/2013 - 2:53pm
As evidenced by some quotes in the article, and other similar things I have read, like at the Wall Street Journal, there seems to be a surprising amount of support within the business community for raising minimum wage, along the lines of "please make us do it, as we believe it would increase demand and spending." But that they need the law to set the bar, that it's hard for them to do it without that. Seems more than in times past, at least to me.
Do you know who the main culprits are in Congress and among lobbyists preventing it from happening?
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/28/2013 - 3:31pm
Hi AA,
I'm not sure who the main culprits are in Congress, but opposing the minimum wage on the grounds that it is a job killer is pretty much dogma and part of the principal script of the GOP and most of the organized business community, such as the Business Roundtable, NAM, Chamber of Commerce, etc. Just found this one NPR piece that describes the reaction to Obama's interest in raising the minimum wage back in the beginning of the year.
It's one of those religious things for many conservatives, i.e. that raising the minimum wage hurts the people on the bottom that raising the minimum wage is supposed to help. But so far as I know that's not supported by data relating to any minimum wage increase dating back to its passage in I think 1938.
by Bruce Levine on Sun, 07/28/2013 - 8:19pm
by jollyroger on Sun, 07/28/2013 - 9:50pm