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...that’s still getting away from the issue. What do we really want when we say we want a living wage? It’s an arbitrary number, sure, but so is the minimum wage, or cut-offs for tax brackets, etc., etc. Instead of throwing out a number, I’d argue that hard-working families deserve to live out of poverty, and that the children of hard-working families deserve an equal chance to succeed...
...first reason is a criticism of minimum wages in general: There is no compelling argument for paying people more than they voluntarily agree to accept. Nobody is being forced to work at Harvard against his or her will. If the employees who would benefit from PSLM’s proposal feel slighted, they are perfectly free to go elsewhere in search of more lucrative employment...
...market. Even once the cause of the Peru missionary tragedy is established and steps are taken to prevent a recurrence, the drug war will remain unwinnable until the U.S. appetite for narcotics is suppressed. And that's something no amount of AWACS patrols or special forces training or mandatory minimum prison sentences can achieve...
Gomes, who has won a great deal of administrative influence in his decades of service as Harvard's primary religious leader, said he is conflicted about the merits of the protesters' call for a minimum $10.25 per hour living wage for all Harvard employees, but is committed to ending the sit-in through discussion...
...condos priced from $2 million to $6.8 million. In the bigger picture, though, they are part of a well-heeled, spending-friendly stratum of society that marketers circle like cats at a sushi bar, proffering exclusive riding clubs in the West or 400-year-old farmhouses in Italy. The minimum net worth for the World's condo buyers is $5 million, an elite group that marketers call "penta-millionaires." The niche might seem rarefied, but data issued in February by the Spectrem Group estimate that the U.S. has 531,000 such households, with an average net worth closer...