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Higher pay, but only if you keep your job - Ron Johnson Senator from Wisconsin
keep your job January 31 2014 Facebook Twitter Email Print President Obama wants to raise the minimum wage to 10 10 an hour Give America a raise he demanded of employers in his State of the Union speech...families The numbers however show that very few families must get by on minimum wage Only 2 8 of all workers earned the minimum wage in 2012 according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics and more than...teenagers New 2013 Census data from economist Keith Hall at the Mercatus Center shows how most minimum wage workers are far from the heart wrenching straw man that the president deploys Most are under 25...
How to give people raises - Ron Johnson Senator from Wisconsin
Email Print For months President Obama and Majority Leader Reid have insisted that raising the minimum wage is the way to give hard working Americans a raise Unlike the president or members of Congress...or the stroke of a pen A worker s wage relies on many factors many of them things that presidents and lawmakers cannot foresee or predict For example there are the wages offered by the Walmart in Williston...wrote at AEI org about the wages on offer there 17 40 an hour for cashiers or 19 90 an hour for lube shop staff Walmart is offering 2 5 times more than the federal minimum wage How can this happen North...
Op-Eds and Blogs - Ron Johnson Senator from Wisconsin
News Blog 01 31 2014 Higher pay but only if you keep your job resident Obama wants to raise the minimum wage to 10 10 an hour â œGive America a raise â he demanded of employers in his State...families The numbers however show that very few families must get by on minimum wage Only 2 8 of all workers earned the minimum wage in 2012 according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics and more than...teenagers New 2013 Census data from economist Keith Hall at the Mercatus Center shows how most minimum wage workers are far from the heart wrenching straw man that the president deploys In the News Blog...
How to lower demand for people who need a job - Ron Johnson Senator from Wiscons...
hall meetings why I don t favor raising the minimum wage The answer is easy Raising the cost of labor means it will be harder for people making minimum wage to find a job The nonpartisan Congressional...ladder don t be surprised when fewer people can start climbing it The problem in increasing the minimum wage is if you want to go from 7 25 to 10 10 why don t you go to 50 bucks an hour Why don t you go...Democrat asserted that the minimum wage ought to be 22 an hour She based her figure on an argument about productivity that turns out to be totally wrong She said a 22 minimum would reduce income inequality...
Obamacare discourages work - Ron Johnson Senator from Wisconsin
employers to cut back on hiring by making it more expensive to employ people It will do that as a minimum wage fry cook from Wisconsin told the president just last Friday relating how his hours were cut back...an employer trying to deal with rising benefits costs The president said he favored raising the minimum wage a policy that will make it even more expensive to employ the cook The president didn t talk about...subsidizes the pay of the working poor Why Because of Obamacare CBO writes CBO now estimates that the wages earned by recipients of the EITC will be lower which will raise both the total amount of the tax credit...
A raise to $10.10 an hour, unless you're unlucky - Ron Johnson Senator from Wisc...
Facebook Twitter Email Print It is disturbing that Democrats in the Senate keep pushing for a higher minimum wage even after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported that will lead to as many as a...It clearly states that raising the minimum wage would mean more income for some people now earning less than 10 10 but a terrible price for others A 10 10 minimum wage would reduce employment by roughly...low wage workers because of their higher cost and an increase of a few tens of thousands of jobs for other workers because of greater demand for goods and services Those job losses among low wage workers...
How to help low-skill workers if you don't want to punish business - Ron Johnson...
cares about people whose job skills don t earn them much more than minimum wage He says that s why he wants to raise the minimum wage he says that will mean these low skilled workers will earn more President...raising the minimum wage will hurt many of those workers by costing them their jobs The Congressional Budget Office Congress nonpartisan accountants calculates that raising the minimum wage to 10 10 an...would take home 1 005 a year under Mr Ryan s plan That s roughly the equivalent of raising their minimum wage to 8 an hour Even better as Saltsman points out The tax credit goes to people who live in poor...
Good intentions, painful consequences - Ron Johnson Senator from Wisconsin
President Obama wishes to further increase the cost of labor by pushing a 39 percent hike in the minimum wage The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that as many as 1 million fewer people would...because of this Prices for everyone would increase including those left jobless by the increase in minimum wage Back in the real world industry is innovating with automation in unexpected places White Castle...
Charts - Ron Johnson Senator from Wisconsin
not 1 trillion but 1 7 trillion When it fully kicks in from 2016 to 2025 the law will cost at a minimum 2 4 trillion That s somewhere around 250 billion a year at least If you just move the taxes fees...our economy and we have to make sure that businesses have money available to reinvest to increase wages to pay for healthcare and to fund 401Ks and retirement plans When the federal government takes that...our economy and we have to make sure that businesses have money available to reinvest to increase wages to pay for healthcare and to fund 401Ks and retirement plans When the federal government takes that...
Senator Ron Johnson Leads Colleagues in Calling on Governor Evers to End the Fed...
has a reservation wage the minimum wage he or she insists on getting before accepting a job Unemployment insurance and other social assistance programs increase the reservation wage causing an unemployed...
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