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Bush welfare plan seeks to skirt minimum wage |
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by ML
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06 Mar 2002
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This is probably an example the News-Gazette would cite in how the government should go about NOT interfering in the "free market". I think most rational people would see it just the opposite way. |
Follow the link at the bottom of the page to read how a proposal for further "welfare reform" will further depress the wages of American workers, adding to the misery spawned by the sending of millions of jobs overseas in the name of "free trade".
The Bush Administration is trying to pull another fast one on working Americans. Not only has the President refused to call for a much needed hike in the minimum wage, preferring to hold that hostage to partisan bickering, instead of simply asking for a simple up-or-down vote on the need to increase the a minimum wage that has been stuck at $5.15 and hour since 1997. Now the bums want to further depress wages for workers by forcing a large number of sub-minimum wage workers into the economy in the guise of more "welfare reform".
Champaign County has just passed a Living Wage ordinance, applying to its employees, over the objections of the News-Gazette editorial board. The paper's editorial board claimed that government should not interfere in the "free market" by adopting a Living Wage policy. Don't hold your breath, waiting for them to condemn the President's team for meddling with the "free market" with this despicable proposal. I'm sure they'll say that government is "just doing its job" in this case.
Be sure to express your opposition to this harebrain idea, which will make it more difficult for all workers to earn enough to NOT qualify for welfare, to your representatives, in churches, in schools, and in union meetings. |
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http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=145428&group=webcast
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