YES! Otherwise taxpayers end up subsidizing their workers.
17%
YES! And cities around the nation should do the same!
83%
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
Images of Thom
At Mondragon - both the mountain and the cooperative city - in Spain (written about in "Threshold" book)
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"Beneath the success and rise of American enterprise is an untold history that is antithetical to every value Americans hold dear. This is a seminal work, a godsend really, a clear message to every citizen about the need to reform our country, laws, and companies."
From Screwed:
"Thom Hartmann’s book explains in simple language and with concrete research the details of the Neo-con’s war against the American middle class. It proves what many have intuited and serves to remind us that without a healthy, employed, and vital middle class, America is no more than the richest Third World country on the planet."
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"If you wonder why and when giant corporations got the power to reign supreme over us, here’s the story."
The US has made great strides in recent years to dramatically expand the number of people who can be denied fair, equal, or even the minimum wage. In addition to the well-known exploitation of corporations, we have such policies as workfare replacement labor that have been serving powerfully to phase out the past century of labor progress. We also removed the rungs from the proverbial ladder out of poverty, so the percentage of impoverished Americans continues to grow. At the least, this translates into a "snowball rolling downhill" -- more poverty means fewer consumer purchases, so fewer products need to be manufactured, so fewer workers are needed, increasing poverty... and on it rolls.
Not only a living wage but health benefits as well.