Category: Experts

Tuesday Links

Posted on by Pieter Vorster

This is a moment of choosing for the American left. Many will side with Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib. That could damage the Progressive brand. It deserves to be damaged.

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What Bernie Sanders Gets Wrong About Wages

Posted on by John C. Goodman

“In the year 2023, in the richest country in the history of the world, nobody should be forced to work for starvation wages…   If you work 40, 50 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty. It is time to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.” Bernie Sanders,  May 4, 2023

This is Sanders’ argument for raising the minimum wage from its current level of $7.25 an hour to $17.00. But the whole premise is wrong. Virtually no one today is earning the minimum wage. Even if they did, they wouldn’t be poor. And that’s been true for some time.

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