Academic associations: when you are looking for graduate students to do work for a conference, perhaps don't offer an honorarium equivalent to less than minimum wage in 12 out of 13 provinces and territories.
That's not even counting the unknown (uncompensated?) time for the mandatory orientation session.
@jsjoshua
The #401k was a huge mistake. It dumps too much money into the stock market chasing after too few stocks by people who have no clue what they are doing.
"devise a plan that would help low- and middle-income Americans save more for retirement."
Still won't work. How can low- and middle-income people save for retirement if they can't afford daily living costs?
To make things look better Reagan decoupled the inflation rate from what it really costs to live. A #LivingWage is needed.
📢💰We will run an experiment of drastically reducing the price of our monthly subscription from $4.99/m down to a mere $1.99/m. That's a 60% price reduction! Of course, the 30-day free trial remains, too.
To make the lower price stick, we'd need to get as many people to try Murmel as we possibly can.
Please, help us spread the word throughout the #fediverse. We'd love to get a boost from you. Please, smash that 🔁 button! 🚀🙏
Lecturers: Reject sellout contract! Strike to halt crackdown against student protests! Secure a living wage, pay parity and job security at all University of Michigan campuses!
Today, the new minimum wage of $17.28 in my city of Bellingham, WA goes into effect.
Compared to some other cities in the US, this may sound high. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 (since 2009).
Unfortunately, experts have calculated Bellingham's "living wage" closer to $23.52 for an individual and $29.97 for a family of four with two working parents.
According to Redfin, "In March 2024, Bellingham home prices were up 12.2% compared to last year, selling for a median price of $685K."
Average rent for an apartment is $1,863, and average rent for a house is $2,891.
Whatcom County, where Bellingham is located, recorded a 27% jump in unhoused people in 2023 (the most recent data), the highest increase since the point in time survey began in 2008.
Corporate welfare. Making people working for sub minimum annual salaries to support executive pay. Every top executive in the US could earn 500k a year and allow all employees to earn a living wage. The CEO of my company earned a $30 million dollar first year package. #inequality#rulingclass#livingwage#executivepay#millionaire#billionaire#CEO
Malaysian and Philippine #unions discuss #LivingWage and decoupling of #productivity and wages, "It is evident that the global economic system is a failure that only favours few owners of #capital"
"But if that money goes into the wages of low-income workers, we know that all of it will go back into the local economy because research shows that those workers spend 100% of their payslip. Actually, they spend 106% of their payslip, but that’s a whole other story. So the best way to stimulate the local economy is to put the money into raising the lowest wages. That means more money for more jobs."
If you had a leader who was a millionaire and whose firm didn't pay the minimum wage, you wouldn't trust him to deliver for the good of society.
This is Anas Sarwar of the Labour Branch Office in Scotland. He was rightly taken to task today by Humza Yousaf at #FMQs in the Scottish Parliament. Sarwar also favours a cap on benefits but not bankers' bonuses. Plus ça change..