Exploring an International Minimum Wage
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Minimum wage earners back in tax net
from May 1st - SF
Minimum wage earners back in tax net
from May 1st - SF
04/17/2005 03:22 PMPolitics.ie Apr 17 2005 5:40PM GMT
Minimum wage worries firms
Minimum wage worries firms
09/12/2004 11:32 PMIncreases to the minimum wage are beginning to be cause for concern
for businesses, the CBI says.
Kerry Says He Would Raise Minimum Wage
(AP)
Kerry Says He Would Raise Minimum Wage
(AP)
06/18/2004 07:22 PMAP - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Friday proposed
raising the federal minimum wage to $7 an hour by 2007, arguing
that such an increase could boost the wages of more than 15 million
Americans.
Kerry Proposes Raising Minimum Wage (AP)
Kerry Proposes Raising Minimum Wage (AP)
06/18/2004 11:17 AMAP - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Friday proposed
raising the federal minimum wage to $7 an hour by 2007, which he
contended would benefit working women more than any other group.
Kerry Proposes Raising Minimum Wage
Kerry Proposes Raising Minimum Wage
06/18/2004 01:00 PMDemocratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Friday proposed
raising the federal minimum wage to $7 an hour by 2007, which he
contended would benefit working women more than any other group.
Carphone Warehouse in minimum wage
'sting'
Carphone Warehouse in minimum wage
'sting'
06/01/2004 07:13 AMStaff paid less than legal requirement
Kerry Says 'Can-Do' U.S. Needs to Raise
Minimum Wage
Kerry Says 'Can-Do' U.S. Needs to Raise
Minimum Wage
06/19/2004 01:12 AMReuters via Wired News Jun 19 2004 4:39AM GMT
Minimum wage 'not costing jobs'
Minimum wage 'not costing jobs'
09/26/2004 11:23 PMA report says the minimum wage, due to rise on Friday, has helped
clerical, retail and catering staff, as well as traditionally
low-paid.
Calif. Gov. Vetoes Minimum Wage,
Superstore Bills
Calif. Gov. Vetoes Minimum Wage,
Superstore Bills
09/19/2004 09:40 AMReuters via Wired News Sep 19 2004 1:40PM GMT
Kerry Says 'Can-Do' U.S. Needs to Raise
Minimum Wage (Reuters)
Kerry Says 'Can-Do' U.S. Needs to Raise
Minimum Wage (Reuters)
06/18/2004 02:34 PMReuters - Democratic White House hopeful
John Kerry proposed on Friday raising the minimum wage to $7 by
2007, a hike he said would allow struggling families to pay for
10 months of groceries or eight months of rent.
The New York Times > International
> Middle East > Ordinary Iraqis
Wage a Successful Battle Against
Insurgents
The New York Times > International
> Middle East > Ordinary Iraqis
Wage a Successful Battle Against
Insurgents
03/23/2005 05:13 AMhave had enough of the terrorists .. THE TABLES
TURN
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MediaLive International And BPA
International Announce Attendance Audit
Of COMDEX Las Vegas 2003
MediaLive International And BPA
International Announce Attendance Audit
Of COMDEX Las Vegas 2003
10/30/2003 11:47 PMCOMDEX Oct 28 2003 3:47AM ET
WaveScribe International Corp in
Negotiations With International
Transcription Providers
WaveScribe International Corp in
Negotiations With International
Transcription Providers
04/18/2005 06:33 PMWaveScribe International Corp. announced that since the initial sales
campaign of the WaveScribe Platform to transcription service
providers, it has entered into negotiations with several International
Transcription Providers regarding the licensing and deployment of
WaveScribe for their business model. [PRWEB Apr 18, 2005]
wage growth?
wage growth?
03/06/2004 01:59 AMSaw this
on John Robb's weblog... couldn't help but post it here also, it's
an interesting look at the current 'recovery':
This is an amazing chart (via Barry Ritholz).
Funny thing is, I live in a state that'll vote for Bush, no matter
who I vote for, and I'm also not educated enough (about politics) to
know if the president can actually do anything about that graph or
not...
update: and then I go and read this article and get all confused:
WSJ: M
anufacturers Say They're Hiring, But Jobs Picture Remains Murky
[sub. req.] -- and that's why I don't pay that much attention to
politics...
Delta's Wage War
Delta's Wage War
04/14/2004 02:34 PMOf the carrier's many problems, its wage costs are most out of line.
Row over IT wage 'disparity'
Row over IT wage 'disparity'
05/12/2004 08:14 AMWorkers in the IT business in Belfast are amongst the lowest paid in
the world, a survey indicates.
The 2nd Offshore Customer Management
International Conference1 – 3 November
2004Cape Town International Convention
Centre, South Africa
The 2nd Offshore Customer Management
International Conference1 – 3 November
2004Cape Town International Convention
Centre, South Africa
06/23/2004 02:36 AMThe Offshore Customer Management International Conference promises
senior decision-makers in western business a route map to success
through offshore’s fast changing landscape. This is an essential
must-attend event for senior executives planning or engaged in
offshore customer management activity or related business processes.
[PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]
Minimum Profit 3.3.0
Minimum Profit 3.3.0
04/11/2004 06:54 AMA programmer's text editor.
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Using the Courts to Wage a War on Gay
Marriage
Using the Courts to Wage a War on Gay
Marriage
05/08/2004 08:04 PMLiberty Counsel, a small conservative law firm, has employed a range
of legal tactics to fight same-sex marriage across the country.
Overture UK Increases Minimum Bid
Overture UK Increases Minimum Bid
01/29/2003 03:50 AMEmails were received today annoucing an increase in the minimum bid
price. (This is Overture UK)
German Workers Do the Wage Limbo
German Workers Do the Wage Limbo
03/24/2005 08:12 AMBeset by high unemployment and the ongoing cost of reunification,
Germany's economy has been unraveling for the last decade. Now a
German job site pits workers against each other to help employers cut
costs. By Jason Walsh.
Falling Fortunes of the Wage Earner
Falling Fortunes of the Wage Earner
04/12/2005 08:32 AMWages for the average American worker fell last year, after adjusting
for inflation - the first such drop in nearly a decade.
Designing Videogames For The Wage Slave
Designing Videogames For The Wage Slave
07/27/2004 11:32 PMLow-wage workers have to choose between
car and rent
Low-wage workers have to choose between
car and rent
04/12/2005 08:54 PMToday's New York Times carries an article "Falling
Fortunes of Wage Earners" noting that "Even though the economy
added 2.2 million jobs in 2004 and produced strong growth in corporate
profits, wages for the average worker fell for the year, after
adjusting for inflation - the first such drop in nearly a
decade." This is a theme in Barbara Ehrenreich's book Nickel and Dimed, which
I recently finished listening to while driving back from
Virginia. Ehrenreich did her research in the boom economy of
1998 and 1999 when labor was in short supply yet wages barely rose for
the unskilled. Ehrenreich took service jobs in Key West,
Portland, Maine, and Minneapolis to see if she could make ends meet
after one month.
Ehrenreich notes that the official poverty line was defined in
1964 as a multiple of the cost of food (see http://www.
census.gov/hhes/income/defs/poverty.html) and has barely been
revised since then. The marketplace, however, has changed.
Real estate and rents have become much more expensive and food has
stayed relatively cheap. Thus it is easy to envision a family
whose income is 3X the cost of eating at McDonald's but who can't
afford rent. Ehrenreich finds that almost no unskilled worker
would be able to afford rent plus a car at the same
time. If they can't team up with a spouse and they need the car
to get to work they are forced to live in the car.
Ehrenreich's conclusion is that this can't last. The workers
will rebel and demand their right to at least an efficiency apartment
plus some means of transportation to a job. She predicts a
Proletarian Revolution. Six years have elapsed since Nickel and
Dimed was written and yet the Walmartians and hotel and
restaurant slaves seem as docile as ever.
What did Ehrenreich overlook? Immigration! There are
plenty of people from poor countries who think that working 60-70
hours per week for $7.50/hour is acceptable, especially if there are
opportunities for their children to do better. As long as the
immigrants are streaming into the U.S. it seems unlikely that wages
for the unskilled will rise.
One might ask "Why do we have such a welcoming immigration
policy?" Countries that value quality of life restrict
immigration. To get into New Zealand, for example, you need to
demonstrate some combination of youth, education, and wealth.
The New Zealanders don't see a need to clog their neighborhoods with
development and their highways with traffic unless the newcomers are
bringing something interesting. The U.S., by contrast, is happy
to grant visas and green cards to people who don't speak English and
who in some cases are dedicated to the destruction of the U.S.
government (the September 11th terrorists, for example, most of whom
had official U.S. INS blessing). The U.S. government puts GDP
growth as its #1 priority because GDP growth enables the government to
collect more in taxes and the extra tax revenue enables the government
to expand. If the population growth that is required to generate
the GDP growth means that young people have to work two jobs in order
to rent an apartment that's not Uncle Sam's problem. High
housing costs and the lack of guaranteed health care are both desired
spurs to keep potential taxpayers getting up and going into work every
day.
The best predictions available today show the U.S. population
rising from its present 295 million to 500 million within our
lifetimes. With wages for low-skill workers set according to
wages in India and China the living styles of many unskilled workers
in America will have to be more like those in India and China.
Ehrenreich's idea that a worker is entitled to an efficiency apartment
does not apply in India or China. I visited Agra, home to the
Taj Majal, a few years ago. Statistics showed that 2 million
people lived there, subsantially smaller than the population of
Boston and its closest suburbs, yet there were essentially no
buildings taller than one story. If a family of 8 people ran a
little shop by the road they would roll down the shop door at night
and sleep there as well. A friend recently returned from living
in Shanghai and reported the same system there.
We could argue about the merits of globalization and U.S.
immigration policy but these factors are unlikely to change.
Better to think about how best to deal with the implications.
Low-wage workers in America won't be able to afford housing
constructed with currently prevailing methods. In
Third World countries this has traditionally resulted in shantytowns
springing up (cf. Mexico City). Perhaps with innovations in
prefab housing we could provide shelter in the exurbs at a cost
affordable to unskilled workers. If not and if we have to accept
the idea that a low-wage worker with a car will never be able to
afford an apartment maybe the solution is an inexpensive car that is
comfortable for sleeping. If the Chinese can make a cheap
car they should be able to make a cheap small RV. If the
Chinese can make a sleeping van for $10,000 (new) a low-wage worker
could have transportation and minimal shelter at the same time.
Karl Marx thought that the Industrial Revolution would end
scarcity, i.e., that everyone in the U.S. would be living in a
McMansion and driving an S.U.V. That was one of his main reasons
for concluding that Communism would be the natural end-result of
economic development. Marx did not count on a world population
explosion, however, and the simultaneous stagnation in construction
technology resulting in tremendous pressure on housing costs.
China to wage war on Internet
pornography
China to wage war on Internet
pornography
07/17/2004 02:42 PMBig News Network Jul 17 2004 5:40PM GMT
Volkswagen heads into wage negotiations
Volkswagen heads into wage negotiations
09/16/2004 02:01 AMSeattletimes.nwsource.com - Wed Sep 15, 04:07 pm GMT
In Iraq, soldiers wage war via computer
In Iraq, soldiers wage war via computer
01/04/2004 05:03 AMSunspot Jan 4 2004 3:40AM ET
Stewart Gets Minimum, Vows Comeback
Stewart Gets Minimum, Vows Comeback
07/16/2004 10:10 PMReuters via Wired News Jul 17 2004 1:39AM GMT
MPs call for minimum drink prices
MPs call for minimum drink prices
04/05/2005 02:30 AMCouncils should act to set minimum prices for alcoholic drinks in bars
to help them curb binge-drinking, MPs say.
Martha Stewart Gets Minimum Term
Martha Stewart Gets Minimum Term
07/16/2004 10:09 PMReuters via Wired News Jul 17 2004 1:42AM GMT
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04/02/2005 06:56 AM
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Overture US To Raise Minimum Bid Prices
Overture US To Raise Minimum Bid Prices
02/04/2003 10:43 AMUnconfirmed reports floating around that Overture US will increase
minimum bids to 10 cents.
SMS 2k3 FAQ: Minimum SMS Server Hardware
Requirements
SMS 2k3 FAQ: Minimum SMS Server Hardware
Requirements
07/28/2004 08:18 PMTop Tip: Minimum wattage for power
supply?
Top Tip: Minimum wattage for power
supply?
06/16/2004 12:25 AMWhat should be the minimum wattage for the power supply for a new
system I am going to build?
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