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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 hit $15 an hour for mid-size and large employers next year and all employers in 2023. Dozens of econom...

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, coupled with some strains of political thought being restricted on Facebook and Twitter, along wit...

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 always been present on the American scene but has gained outsized purchase in recent years. During O...

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 action that threatens to make voters in battleground states like Arizona or Nevada or maybe even traditi...

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 was stolen by a vast and hidden Deep State conspiracy. Her blind loyalty to Trump, and intolerance f...