Economics and common sense means less jobs when the minimum wage is hiked: Washington, D.C., is getting a real life lesson in economics as the city moves closer to implementing a $15 per hour minimum wage. During the first six months of 2016, restaurants in D.C. shed 1,400 jobs. That’s a 2.7 percent decline in […]
Say bye to jobs, D.C. Also, the City Council negotiated this measure to avoid the ballot this November, which the council feared they would lose. Photo by Joe in DC
The former CEO of the fast-food restaurant company, Ed Rensi, penned an op-ed that was published by Fox News and warned of the fight-for-$15 movement’s jobs implications. Photo by BobboSphere
Huh? So they fight for a $15-an-hour minimum wage then want to be exempt from it, all soo union workers can get contracts and work and non-unionized workers cannot? Photo by SEIU Local 99 | Education Workers United
From Fox News: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders shelved the niceties and went right after each other’s perceived weak spots at a must-win Democratic primary debate Thursday night where the front-runner challenged her rival’s grasp of complex policy issues – and the insurgent senator hammered her as a Wall Street pal just now talking the […]
About $20 million was spent to organize raising the minimum wage in several states, all to eventually unionize minimum wage workers. The SEIU was back to their old ways, again. Photo by SEIU Local 99 | Education Workers United