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Sen. Ron Johnson: ‘Good workers’ don’t make minimum wage
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Sunday defended voting against raising the minimum wage by suggesting that only bad workers earned minimum wage. “Bottom line: when you’re a good worker you don’t stay at minimum wage for long,” he said. “Trust me on that. It’s not universal, but trust me as…
Minimum Fail
Why, if you’re looking at the current state of the economy, might you think that teenage employment, heavily focused in the retail and restaurant sectors, was down this summer? You’d probably think that it had something to do with the economic recession, coupled with the insanely high gas costs and…
Legislating Is For Stupids
On Fox News Sunday, John McCain just said that he would veto any bill which didn’t include “a straight up-or-down vote on the issues” (in reference to the one time he voted to raise the minimum wage – it was a part of a war-funding bill). It seems incredibly damaging…
The Plural Of Anecdote Is Conservatism
Patterico’s Pontifications notices that unemployment rates for those ages 16-24 have risen much faster than those for other age groups, and that said rise probably has a lot to do with that age group entering the market for summer work. For that bit of correctitude, the author gets a cookie.…
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