Now the University of Memphis president is okay with raising the minimum wage to a “living wage,” which is often a rallying cry for labor unions and the Left.
Topic: living wage
Study: Minimum Wage Workers Lost $125 Per Month due to Rapid Minimum Wage Hike
Hiking the minimum wage too quickly and too much has led to a decrease in hours worked and wages for minimum wage workers.
The Fight-for-$15 Reaches Duke’s Campus
Some students are occupying an administration building to force the university administration to raise their minimum wage to $15 an hour. Photo by OZinOH
Oregon’s Minimum Wage Hike means College Students Will Suffer
The University of Oregon faces a conundrum: Fire their student workers or reduce their hours? Photo by Wolfram Burner Photo by Wolfram Burner
Pittsburgh’s Duquesne University raises Minimum Wage to $16 an hour
That’s a lot of money being spent on minimum wage workers, and it beats out the $15 an hour wage advocates out on the Left/West Coast in academia. We’ll see if this is financially viable…
The Living Wage Diaspora
Believe it or not there is actual evidence that illegal immigration does depress wages for the native-born but you are not likely to hear about it in the multitude of classes that touch on various…
Family Life should be a Liberal Fantasy, Professor Says
When academics offer recommendations on how to strengthen families, they usually involve making left-wing policies stronger. At the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Monday, January 12, 2015, George Washington University law professor Naomi Cahn…