What if American workers were actually paid for increases in productivity?
Activists are mobilizing around President Obama’s call to raise the minimum wage to $9.00, and polling shows that Americans across the political spectrum agree with such a policy.
But here’s an interesting fact about what the minimum wage could be instead. The Center for Economic and Policy Research’s John Dewitt looked at what the minimum wage would be if it simply rose with productivity — that is, if workers were actually paid for the increasing amount of output — since 1968, and found that it would be almost 3 times what it is now:
Since 1968, however, productivity growth has far outpaced the minimum wage. If the minimum wage had continued to move with average productivity after1968, it would have reached $21.72 per hour in 2012 ai??i?? a rate well above the average production worker wage. If minimum-wage workers received only half of the productivity gains over the period, the federal minimum would be $15.34.
Even Obama’s modest plan to raise the minimum wage is expected to face intense opposition from Big Business and its lobbyists.
I believe that Universal Background Checks and MORE as in requiring EVERY firearm transfer to be done by an FFL dealer with a Bound Book entry and a 4473 filing should be instituted. I do NOT believe that bans of any kind will work. In fact, I believe that they will create an improved market for organized illegal gun dealers who will bring MORE guns into the hands of criminals and mentally unstable people. The history of illegal drug sales and Prohibition ‘should’ have taught us this. The police and groups that lobby for more ‘controls’ are really after more money for their agendas. If you want guns off the streets, then pump money into the mental health programs, education for youth and laws that require psychotherapists to report people with strong violent tendencies and then fund a program and agency to track these people.
It is estimated that about 20-40% of the yearly harvest is lost during processing. With the growth in population each year, this sector has nurtured the common man. In 1802, the first agricultural fair was instituted in Arlington, Virginia by George Washington Parke Custis.