At Least Four Dead After Cambodian Police Fire on Protesters
Striking garment workers are pushing for the minimum wage to be doubled
Striking garment workers are pushing for the minimum wage to be doubled
Our regulations price low-income people out of greater job potential. That is a crime.
New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island among those to see the highest increase
Despite high-flying promises, government can't decree the price of labor without killing jobs.
Americans like the idea of hiking the cost of labor, but only if it doesn't price workers out of jobs.
Doubling the minimum wage for fast-food workers is delusional and counterproductive.
Less than 0.1 percent of the industry's workforce participated.
How many of them will be actual employees?
A demand by the Social Democrats
Regulations will take effect in 2015
Many parts of state still have double-digit unemployment
Says protesters demanding higher pay are "a handful of union-orchestrated media stunts, made of up of primarily union members and activists."
A great way to price low-skilled labor out of the market
Which means they probably won't hire them at all
Why are Occupy-style activists receiving taxpayer support?
Workers at McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC in seven cities participating
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