DemPGH
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« on: July 26, 2014, 11:46:43 AM » |
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« edited: July 26, 2014, 11:48:18 AM by DemPGH, President »
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I find myself agreeing with Tyrion. I'm admittedly in a quandary about this. I'm curious as to what the minimum wage is now - I see that repealing this would indeed raise the minimum wage in stages that are pretty significant in the coming years. Again, I favor balance. The minimum wage cannot be too low or too high or you have all the requisite problems - the right complains about curtailing job growth if it's too high and the left complains about poverty if it's too low, and I can understand both concerns. I certainly lean toward a higher minimum wage than a lower one.
(To tie in a RL concern, now more than ever you have older people working minimum wage jobs whereas in the past it was always younger people and H.S. and college students - this is a big problem).
I'm also wondering how the Long Term Unemployment Relief Act impacts union status. If you join a union, it sounds like you might not get the protections that others get until you are "tenured" or until the company decides to keep you at the end of the time they have; in other words, it sounds like everyone hired under the Long Term Unemployment Relief Act is a temp. Also at play here is some incentive to induce the long term unemployed to find work again. So we need to be careful about this.
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