Sunday Reads: It’s Time, even employers want it!! Raise the Minimum Wage!

Minimum Wage

So we all know that since the 2008 collapse recovery has been slow, especially for people, and since Corporations are people how come they are not feeling any pain!! Not only aren’t these faux people not feeling any pain, they are really doing pretty well particularly in relation to the people who work for them. According to the  post Corporate Profits Grow and Wages Slide at the New York Times, corporate profits are at their highest levels since 1929 and employer pay the lowest since 1949!!!   Consider those dates 1929 was just before the Depression and in 1949 we were just recovering from the war. Anyway the point is that things are NOT going to get better until we shrink the gap between profits and wages! Read More

Sunday Reads: It's Time, even employers want it!! Raise the Minimum Wage!

Minimum Wage

So we all know that since the 2008 collapse recovery has been slow, especially for people, and since Corporations are people how come they are not feeling any pain!! Not only aren’t these faux people not feeling any pain, they are really doing pretty well particularly in relation to the people who work for them. According to the  post Corporate Profits Grow and Wages Slide at the New York Times, corporate profits are at their highest levels since 1929 and employer pay the lowest since 1949!!!   Consider those dates 1929 was just before the Depression and in 1949 we were just recovering from the war. Anyway the point is that things are NOT going to get better until we shrink the gap between profits and wages! Read More