Showing posts with label Government Policies Hurt Low-Wage Workers. Show all posts
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Government Policies Hurt Low-Wage Workers

by clyde


via freedom outpost
By Ron Paul


Fast-food workers across the county have recently held a number of high profile protests to agitate for higher wages. These protests have been accompanied by efforts to increase the wages mandated by state and local minimum wage laws, as well as a renewed push in some states and localities to pass “living wage” laws. President Obama has proposed raising the federal minimum wage to ten dollars an hour.