YES! No one can live on $7.25 an hour.
19%
NO! It should be higher so it keeps up with inflation.
81%
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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.
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With His Holiness The Dalai Lama, at His home in Dharamsala, India (Synthesis Dialogues - made into a movie narrated by Harrison Ford)
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Thom Hartmann seeks out interesting subjects from such disparate outposts of curiosity that you have to wonder whether or not he uncovered them or they selected him."
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 Screwed:
"The powers that be are running roughshod over the powers that OUGHT to be. Hartmann tells us what went wrong — and what you and I can do to help set American right again."
A separate proposal to limit monthly executive pay to no more than what the company's lowest-paid staff earn in a year, the so-called 1:12 initiative, faces a popular vote on November 24.
This what they are voting on in Switzerland.
How could this work here?
I like this idea.
Mireille Barmann
Carmel Valley , Ca
Its shameful that min wage is still $ 7.25 . Slave wages Do unto others ...
We should make the minimum wage $15/hour linked to inflation. We should pass fair trade laws to replace free trade so that manufacturing in the US can compete. Those 2 things could go a long way toward ending our current depression and restoring a middle class.