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Progressive Minimum Wage Demands Are Too Damn Low!

Posted on July 16, 2022 by Veronica Tash Leave a comment

The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour – since 2012 there has been an organized movement calling for the minimum wage to be raised to $15 an hour – and of course many smaller groups have called for more earlier than that. During the 2020 presidential campaign, after beating out Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden promised to give into

Automation Doesn’t Have to Be a Problem: But It Requires Societal Change

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Veronica Tash 5 comments

An anxiety has been festering amongst the working class since at least the 1980s: robots are going to take our jobs. Automation has posed competition, especially for blue collar workers, for decades as their jobs could potentially be replaced by automatons whose name: robots, literally comes from the Slavanic word for slave. If their employers replaced them with robots, they

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