Word: pollinators
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...says he has been giving talks on the living wage throughout the country, and as he talked to The Crimson, Pollin received two other calls from journalists asking for background on the living wage...
...core of economists researching the living wage remains small, Pollin says...
...spoken at a lot of places lately, in part because so few economists are interested,?he says. ?t? slowly happening. Once people start saying that they care about economic justice, the logic of a living wage starts to acquire the force of inevitability.?But Pollin is careful to say that the push for a living wage is not limited to an ideological or moral call for social justice...
...Economists who argue against a living wage say that wages should be set according to productivity, and any form of governmental or institutional interference would result in a ?istortion in the market,?according to Pollin...
...University policy for how we set wages is to set them either through face-to-face bargaining at the bargaining table or to base them on what the market is paying for similar jobs,?Price says. ?t? market-based rather than need-based.?But Pollin argues that the marketplace cannot be relied upon to set fair wages. The economy is 66 percent more productive than it was in 1968, he says, but the minimum wage has dropped in a relative sense. People are being paid less and less for doing work, he notes...