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Point/counterpoint: $15 minimum wage - Raising living wage is a start Dean Baker FacebookTwitterEmail The standard argument against raising the minimum wage is not supported by the evidence. We now have considerable experience with state and local governments having substantial increases in their minimum wages. Several cities, including New York, San Francisco and Seattle, already have a $15 an hour minimum wage. California’s statewide minimum wage is now at $14 an hour and is scheduled to hi...

Commentary: Llewellyn King - Social media and the mob factor Llewellyn King FacebookTwitterEmail Social media has an unimagined, unequaled, uncontrollable, and unpredictable ability to mobilize groups of people for antisocial action; to take a sliver of society and turn it into a mob. Last month this new force in society was on display, from mobilizing anti-vaxxers in Los Angeles to the U.S. Capitol riot, resulting in five deaths, to the run-up of a weak stock, GameStop, by 1,800%. These events...

Commentary: Robert Pawlicki - Just preaching unity is not enough Robert Pawlicki FacebookTwitterEmail A basket of deplorables, lowlifes, morally corrupt, socialists, communists, idiots, zealots and nut jobs. The short version of a long list. This is the political language commonly found across the United States. In the not too distant background of these labels are stereotypes, class divisions, racism, and misogyny, which magnifies the intensity of the words. Strong and vindictive language has ...

Commentary: Gregory Bresiger - Amnesty promises best left unkept Gregory Bresiger FacebookTwitterEmail President Joe Biden says he will fulfill a campaign promise to send a comprehensive immigration reform bill to Congress to restore “humanity and American values to our immigration system.” But given the huge potential health of a nation struggling to overcome COVID-19, the Biden immigration promises could destroy this administration unless there is quick and effective action. It is an acti...

Commentary: Brad Swanson - Why smart people believe lies Brad Swanson FacebookTwitterEmail I won the in-law lottery. My mother-in-law is a gracious and sophisticated woman — well-traveled, well-educated, the author of several books on local history. She is the kind of person who wouldn’t give the alternate reality of Trumpworld a second look. Except she did. In fact, she fell for it hook, line and sinker. She voted for Donald Trump twice and still believes today that his reelection victory ...

Point & counterpoint | Energy: Steve Melink - Biden means business with clean energy Steve Melink FacebookTwitterEmail Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election is seen as a positive development by those who favor renewable forms of energy over fossil fuels. The Trump administration moved to reverse more than 100 climate and environmental rules, considering them burdensome to the fossil fuel industry. Biden, soon after taking the oath of office, took numerous actions to unravel Tr...

Point & counterpoint | Energy: Craig Stevens - Agenda hurts American economy, security Craig Stevens FacebookTwitterEmail Despite campaign promises to invest in our nation’s infrastructure, create good-paying union jobs, and “build our economy back better,” President Biden’s track record from his first week in office is coming up short. On Day One, Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline. Then he signed an executive order halting oil and gas leasing on public lands. Now, “Keep it in t...

Commentary: Donald Kirk - A sad milestone silently passes Donald Kirk FacebookTwitterEmail An important anniversary has slipped by. It was last January, the year 2020, while visiting Hong Kong for a few days, that I started seeing stories about a strange new virus diagnosed in the industrial Chinese city of Wuhan. The first headlines didn’t seem like a big deal. Some “experts” were saying the virus had been found in Wuhan and nowhere else. Still, those early reports did kindle memories. N...

Commentary: Margaret Menge - School closings compound pandemic blues Margaret Menge FacebookTwitterEmail Things will get better soon, moms tell each other. But headlines — from Chicago, where the teachers union has adamantly refused to return to work; to Nashua, New Hampshire, where desperate parents are mounting a recall effort to remove pro-union members from the school board — offer little hope schools will reopen. President Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, has appeared to back the u...

Commentary: Sheon Karol - Human resilience offers hope for the post-COVID future Sheon Karol FacebookTwitterEmail Are we resilient or emotionally fragile? Our society wrestles endlessly with this question. A new government has assumed power and our economic future will be determined by whether the Biden administration and investors view us as psychologically damaged, or able to withstand the suffering of the COVID period. Human fragility underlies the bleak view of the post-COVID world provided...