Posts Tagged ‘wages’
I read an article by Marie Cocco of the Washington Post in RealClearPolitics. it just confounds me. Per Marie: Unions aren’t the problem. They are the solution. ….. Creating a viable middle class has been the goal of organized labor since labor first became organized. And it is this goal that was abandoned outright by [...]
Tags: baltimore sun, chicago tribune, clueless, GM, la-times, left, liberal, los angeles times, marie cocco, Media, organized-labor, press, realclearpolitics, tribune, unions, wages, washington-post
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That’s the headline on CNN. The headline NOT on CNN is: Unable to pay bills, London, Ky. YMCA closes And, the reason they decided to give up? Director Don Burgin said the London-Laurel County “Y” struggled with $6,000 monthly utility bills and its budget was further stretched by an increase in the minimum wage. And [...]
Tags: budget, bush, closing, cnn, kentucky, london, minimum, nancy pelosi, non-profit, pelosi, unfunded mandate, wage, wages, ymca
Posted in Fed Policy, Idiot of the day, National Politics | No Comments »
Representative Keith Ellison submitted this letter to The Hill blogs: We have to consider the 30 years of stagnant wages that your average Americans have had to face. That fact is that the reason we have people refinancing their homes, getting home equity loans, getting high rate interest credit cards and petty loans is because [...]
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Posted in Fun with Numbers, Idiot of the day | 1 Comment »
October 10th, 2006 | 2 Comments
Democrats chided Bush the first few years he was in office as a reckless spender. Then the economy took off and they sorta dropped it in favor of "taxing the poor and giving big tax breaks to the rich". The never really got much traction either. So, Ted Kennedy is pulling out the mother of [...]
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Posted in Health Care Debate | 2 Comments »