Tag: Minimum wage
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday October 22, 2010
Today: Free markets, Kansas Governor, Koch Industries, Mike Pompeo, Raj Goyle, Politics, Regulation, Wichita Pachyderm Club, Kansas fourth district,
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In Central-Northeast Wichita, government is cause of problem, not solution
From the November 2007 archives. Since then, the Wichita schools have a new superintendent, and Kansas has raised its minimum wage. An article in The Wichita Eagle “Plan offers hope for city’s troubled heart” (November 14, 2007) reports on the development of a plan named New Communities Initiative, its goal being the revitalizing of a…
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Who will watch for Kansas minimum wage victims?
Today, the new Kansas minimum wage law takes effect. It’s likely that as employers are required to pay their workers more, some will lose their job. So now minimum wage supporters have a duty to perform. They need to watch for people who may lose their job and for companies that may close due to…
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Kansas minimum wage advocates now have a duty
A higher Kansas minimum wage has passed both houses of the Kansas legislature and is waiting for the governor’s signature. Now minimum wage supporters have a duty to perform. It’s likely that as employers are required to pay their workers more, some will lose their job.
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Kansas minimum wage: wrong questions
A recent letter in the Wichita Eagle asks these questions: “Who would work for $2.65 an hour? State legislators don’t get paid much, that is true. But would they work for $2.65 an hour? Would they send their sons or daughters to a job that paid that little?” These questions are intended to stir up…
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Kansas minimum wage on Kansas Week
Bob Weeks discusses the Kansas minimum wage on the KPTS public affairs television program Kansas Week, February 13, 2009.
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Kansas minimum wage
A group in Kansas is pressing for raising the state minimum wage. Will raising it help or harm low-wage earners? And are the policy goals — taken in their entirety — of the groups pressing for a higher minimum wage in the best interest of workers?
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Kansas minimum wage at issue again
In Kansas, some want the state’s minimum wage to rise to match the federal minimum wage. The Lawrence Journal-World reports on this in its story Lawmakers asked to increase state’s minimum wage.
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Minimum Wage: Helpful? Or Not?
What’s one of the barriers to advancement by minorities in the workplace? We’re told that the minimum wage law is a guarantee that workers will not be exploited by greedy employers. But does it really work that way? Art Carden writes this in his article The Minimum Wage, Discrimination, and Inequality: Milton Friedman openly argued…