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- The $15 Minimum Wage Will Kill Jobs. Should You Care? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-07/the-15-minimum-wage-will-kill-jobs-should-you-care 2 comments
- Should We Care About the Minimum Wage? - Forbes, from May 2011 http://www.forbes.com/sites/artcarden/2011/05/13/should-we-care-about-the-minimum-wage/ 4 comments politics
- California Senate passes $25 minimum wage for health care workers https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/california-senate-passes-25-minimum-wage-health-care-workers 11 comments economy
- New California law raises minimum wage to $25 for California health care workers https://calmatters.org/health/2023/10/california-minimum-wage-health-care-law/ 75 comments politics
- Minimum wage hikes do close restaurants. Just not the ones you care about. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/24/minimum-wage-hikes-do-close-restaurants-just-not-the-ones-you-care-about/ 3 comments business
- Judge Takes Away Minimum Wage Protections From Home Care Workers http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/12/23/3606544/judge-home-care-workers/ 15 comments politics
- Do you want someone caring for your elderly parent to make minimum wage? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/05/do-you-want-someone-caring-for-your-elderly-parent-to-make-minimum-wage 26 comments politics
- If we care about the economy, why haven't we raised the minimum wage? | Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/matt-miller-raise-the-minimum-wage/2013/02/06/34857264-7066-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_story.html?wprss=rss_opinions 78 comments moderatepolitics
- White House Brings Minimum Wage, Overtime Protections To 2 Million Home Care Workers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhc8CmiivEo 135 comments politics
- White House Brings Minimum Wage, Overtime Protections To 2 Million Home Care Workers http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/17/white-house-minimum-wage-overtime_n_3941207.html?1379437341 3 comments politics
- Higher minimum wages lead to improved quality of care in nursing homes. https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/rest_a_01271/113782/Worker-Earnings-Service-Quality-and-Firm?redirectedFrom=fulltext 211 comments science
- Sleep-in care workers entitled to minimum wage only when awake, court rules https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/19/sleep-in-care-workers-not-entitled-minimum-wage-supreme-court?cmp=share_iosapp_other 40 comments nottheonion
- Congressional Republicans Fight Minimum Wage Protections For Exploited Health Care Workers http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/12/16/391239/congressional-republicans-fight-minimum-wage-protections-for-exploited-health-care-workers 7 comments politics
- Raising the minimum wage is to our economic problems what the ACA was to our heath care problems: A half measure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale 16 comments politics
- Sleep-in care workers entitled to minimum wage only when awake, UK court rules https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/19/sleep-in-care-workers-not-entitled-minimum-wage-supreme-court 16 comments worldnews
- Senator Warren urges Biden: Raise minimum wage, cancel student debt, invest in child care. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/business/dealbook/senator-warren-urges-biden-raise-minimum-wage-cancel-student-debt-invest-in-child-care.html 5357 comments politics
- Child-care worker sees hours cut after Oakland's minimum wage hike http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-oakland-20150601-story.html 19 comments economy
- Increasing Minimum Wage to $15 Would Raise Pay for Half a Million Child Care Workers, Report Finds https://www.newsweek.com/increasing-minimum-wage-15-would-raise-pay-half-million-child-care-workers-report-finds-1599086 196 comments politics
- The Koch Brothers Commissioned a Survey of Americans and Found Most Like a $15 Minimum Wage, Free College, and Universal Health Care https://theintercept.com/2018/08/09/koch-brothers-health-care-free-college/ 2817 comments politics
- The Ironworker Running to Unseat Paul Ryan Wants Single-Payer Health Care, $15 Minimum Wage http://billmoyers.com/story/ironworker-running-to-unseat-paul-ryan/ 4026 comments politics
- The Ironworker Running to Unseat Paul Ryan Wants Single-Payer Health Care, $15 Minimum Wage http://billmoyers.com/story/ironworker-running-to-unseat-paul-ryan/ 59 comments economy
- Survey: Colorado voters favor higher minimum wage; oppose state health care. http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2016/09/22/survey-colorado-voters-favor-higher-minimum-wage.html 9 comments politics
- Randy Bryce calls for single-payer health care, minimum wage hike, Social Security expansion http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/election-matters/randy-bryce-calls-for-single-payer-health-care-minimum-wage/article_1e5816c7-6188-5839-8435-1d76115f3e5e.html 215 comments politics
- Google will require temp workers receive comprehensive health care coverage, a $15 minimum wage, and 12 weeks of parental leave https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/2/18292543/google-temp-workers-minimum-wage-healthcare-parental-maternity-leave 18 comments business
- The Supreme Court handed down an astonishing decision June 11, ruling that under federal law, home-care workers are not entitled to overtime pay or the minimum wage. http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/11/2448/ 76 comments reddit.com
- Bachmann thinks eliminating minimum wage is good for the economy. Do people not care about labor rights anymore? Someone should send her a copy of Grapes of Wrath. http://abcnews.go.com/politics/eliminating-minimum-wage-slash-unemployment/story?id=13951494#.tgr8dox9yec.reddit 891 comments politics
- Sanders declines to endorse Clinton, but the two met ("shared goals:" higher minimum wage, campaign finance reform, universal health care, college cost and debt) http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-meeting-20160614-story.html 20 comments politics
- As minimum wage has risen to $15 in Seattle, workers request less hours to keep overall income down so they don’t lose public subsidies for things like food, child care and rent. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/22/seattle-sees-fallout-from-15-minimum-wage-as-other-cities-follow-suit/ 17 comments nottheonion
- Obama Takes to Road to Push Rise in Minimum Wage "'The bottom line is, America deserves a raise,' Mr. Obama said. 'But until we’ve got a Congress that cares about raising working folks’ wages, it’s up to the rest of us to make it happen.'" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/us/politics/obama-takes-to-road-to-push-rise-in-minimum-wage.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes 502 comments politics
- AK-Sen: Ted Stevens, is against expanding Iraq veterans' benefits, increasing the minimum wage, protecting privacy and locaized health care -- as Mark Begich explains, he is out of touch http://www.theseminal.com/2008/05/03/ak-sen-mark-begich-explains-how-ted-stevens-is-out-of-touch/ 4 comments politics
- Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a closely watched bill that would raise the minimum wage for California health care workers to $25 per hour. The proposal, Senate Bill 525 from Los Angeles lawmaker María Elena Durazo, will eventually raise hourly wages for health care workers in most settings to $25. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/13/newsom-health-care-minimum-wage-00120492 20 comments health
- Other reasons why women are supporting Bernie Sanders include his leadership on free college tuition, single payer health care, comprehensive reproductive rights, high-quality child care, $15 minimum wage, climate action and human rights for all including indigenous, LGBTIQ peoples and seniors. http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/letters_to_editor/sanders-the-candidate-to-best-serve-all-americans/article_00f32da2-c74e-5011-af5e-1e7ecdcf6c7b.html 368 comments politics
- Free college tuition. Doubling the minimum wage. A single-payer, universal health care system. Those are just a few of the campaign promises by Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who does not try to hide that he embraces a form of socialism. http://www.voanews.com/content/bernie-sanders-surge-reflects-us-shift-on-socialism/2951986.html 1585 comments politics
- Sanders, 73, laid out an agenda for increasing Social Security benefits, the minimum wage, offering a single-payer Medicare-for-all health care plan, creating 13 million jobs by investing $1 billion in a program to rebuild transportation infrastructure and overturning the Citizens United decision. http://thegazette.com/subject/news/politics/election/state-elections/sanders-middle-class-must-stand-together-to-beat-kochs-billionaire-class-20141005 1287 comments politics
- Beyond the Minimum Wage: What’s Really Keeping Hourly Workers in Poverty? | "These low-quality jobs also impact the broader community because employers shift costs—particularly for health care for their workers—to our already overburdened public systems." http://talkpoverty.org/2014/08/06/beyond-minimum-wage-whats-really-keeping-hourly-workers-poverty/ 34 comments politics
- Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's (D-NY) 5 Principles to Modernize the American Workplace and Revive the Middle Class: 1. Expand paid family medical leave; 2. Raise the minimum wage to $10.10/hour; 3. Affordable child care; 4. Universal pre-K; and 5. Equal pay for equal work. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2014/01/gillibrand-5-principles-modernize-american-workplace-revive-middle-class# 15 comments politics
- Ron Paul wants to repeal the Civil Rights Act, he's against public health care, thinks Global Warming is a hoax, doesn't believe in evolution, against federal safety standards, against a minimum wage, thinks abortion is murder, wants to build a border fence with Mexico, and he's racist. http://www.littleredumbrella.com/2012/01/lets-be-clear-ron-paul-fucking-sucks.html?utm_source=twitter 116 comments politics
- Thought "I Robot" was years away? Meet your replacement who at $305,000 now is far less than your lifetime cost including minimum wage and health care. Better adjust our economics and politics from work based to rights based or people are doomed to be less than slaves (slaves were needed). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJFfcBGdh-s 33 comments technology
- Citizens United case: Corporations are immortal. They don’t need health care, or minimum wages, or pensions, or food stamps. They don’t raise children and have families. They have no morality or ethics other than maximizing their profits. They are sociopathic. http://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/citizens-human-beings/ 262 comments politics