I see this as mainly the consequence of the Senate's cowardice and laziness, but also the consequence of decades of Dems ignoring increasing anger from working people about low wages and poor working conditions.
That is amazing. Ours is £12.21 and there’s a formal mechanism for raising it. How well it’s implemented is unclear but for large companies there’s little choice.
Many states have raised it for their workers, but not all of the states - you can guess which ones haven't. Oregon (for example) is $13.70 in rural areas and $15.95 in urban areas, and New York is $15.50/$16.50, but Alabama's still only got the federal law.
Let me hasten to add that a $15 minimum wage, even nationwide, is not going to address people's anger. If the federal minimum wage had kept pace with inflation since its peak in 1968, it would be around $27 per hour today. We should be aiming for at least that now.
That they are left standing amidst the debris of disaster capitalism, now fabulously wealthy and more powerful than any enfeebled, impoverished civil government. Mwahahahaha!
The Oligarchs are forcing us into a recession. Billionaires love recessions, because their middle-of-the-road competitors flounder and file for bankruptcy, and then they can be bought out on the cheap, never to seriously challenge them. Likewise, billionaires can weather a recession relatively
Less than 1% of the world's population voted for less than 0.0000002% of the world's population to have the ability to cause potential hardship on nearly 100% of the worlds population...
It's depressingly clear that this is Mr Trump's Liz Truss moment, albeit on a vastly greater scale. But a presidential system is different from a parliamentary one, and the elected representatives of the American people seem to be either brainwashed or supine. Me, I'm stocking up on on toilet paper.
I have a perfectly fine bidet, ta very much, but there's a water saving habit here too, and toilet tissue can be a good insulator in chilly times. Lofl, lmfao, etc
Many, many, many times over. But like Rocky Balboa, the world keeps getting back up and answering the bell. Round one thousand and more, coming up now!
Ironic that their anti-'globalism' argument actually gains illusory weight as the entire world's economy is currently suffering from one nation's illiberal fall into fascism
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I struggle to see how this can make any sense!
Difference is even they realised what they did by the end of it.