minimum wage

At work in retailing, a very successful retailer, a lot of pressure was applied by the public to raise the base pay. It was raised to 10.00 per hour in 2017 and again to 11.00 per hour in 2018 and now half of us are out of work.

I worked there 3 and a half years until the end of May 2019 from Sept 2015 to end of 2016 the base pay was 9.00 dollars an hour which was enough to live on and I got medicaid and the work was a real challenge but possible 2017 pay went up to 10.00 an hour. I went to the office to complain and...

NYC's $15 minimum wage hasn't brought the restaurant apocalypse — it's helped them thrive

Two years ago as a result of public pressure they put the pay rate up at the store, from 9.00 PH to 10.00. I went to the office to complain and there was already someone else in there complaining. [later edit note, PH means per hour, dollars per hour, it is commonly used in the store but...

that's going in the wrong direction As the cost of automation gradually comes down we hurry up the changeover by raising the cost of human labor, that's the plan, get people out of work asap For manual tasks in retail in a very big chain store the pay rate to begin automating is 11.00 PH which...

UBI Even some in the Banking Industry (more control through Digital Currency) and the Corporate World (Pure Survival – people need money to buy products) are behind the ideal of some sort of UBI. The most they offer is $10,000 per year. The True Democracy Party Proposal is four (4) times that...

Let's look at the USA minimum wage problem from another angle. If our government were willing to cut back on the billions it spends on foreign aid to such countries as North Korea, and Israel, it could it not easily supplement those USA companies which would go out of business if they provided...

Good article that takes a look at the $15 minimum wage policies and the consequences of them. You may be surprised that the data shows that good policies don't always equate to equality for minorities...

https://thesystemsscientist.com/2016/08/07/government-doesnt-consider-15-minimum-wage-consequences/