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		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/04/senate-millionares/comment-page-3/#comment-5623212</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/04/senate-millionares/comment-page-2/#comment-4494124</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/04/senate-millionares/comment-page-2/#comment-4381048</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Ludovic&lt;/strong&gt;

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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/04/senate-millionares/comment-page-2/#comment-4304292</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/04/senate-millionares/comment-page-2/#comment-773409</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yesssssssss the Senate finally grew a set, unlike the House. This bill was such a turkey. Not only was the Estate tax repealed, the really despicable part of the bill was that â€œTIP EARNERSâ€ would loose their minimum wage protection, and might even earn less of a paycheck!!! The tips would compensate, the customer would then be in place to subsidize the establishmentâ€™s plans for slave wages. This is the topic of my cartoon that&#039;s probably not in a weekly paper near you, Iâ€™m trying. see it at my website;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesssssssss the Senate finally grew a set, unlike the House. This bill was such a turkey. Not only was the Estate tax repealed, the really despicable part of the bill was that â€œTIP EARNERSâ€ would loose their minimum wage protection, and might even earn less of a paycheck!!! The tips would compensate, the customer would then be in place to subsidize the establishmentâ€™s plans for slave wages. This is the topic of my cartoon that&#8217;s probably not in a weekly paper near you, Iâ€™m trying. see it at my website;<br />
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yesssssssss the Senate finally grew a set, unlike the House.  This bill was such a turkey.  Not only was the Estate tax repealed, the really dispicable part of the bill was that &quot;TIP EARNERS&quot; would loose their minimum wage protection, and might even earn less of a paycheck!!!  The tips would compensate, the customer would then be in place to subsidise the establishment&#039;s plans for slave wages. This is the topic of my cartoon thats probably not in a weekly paper near you,  I&#039;m trying.  see it at my website;
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		<title>By: Joneser</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/04/senate-millionares/comment-page-2/#comment-715067</link>
		<dc:creator>Joneser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>may i suggest this from Thomas Sowell today about the minimum wage bein graised in Chicago?

I live in Chicago which is particularly relevant....

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/08/a_glimmer_of_hope.html

&lt;em&gt;....The economic consequence of political largess -- whether in the form of minimum wage laws or medical or other benefits mandated to be paid for by employers -- is to make labor artificially more expensive.

Countries with generous employee benefits mandated by law -- Germany and France, for example -- have chronically higher unemployment rates than unemployment rates in the United States, where jobs are created at a far higher rate than in Europe.

There is no free lunch. Higher labor costs mean fewer jobs.

Since all workers do not have the same skill or experience, minimum wage laws have more impact on some than on others. Young, inexperienced and unskilled workers are especially likely to find it harder to get a job when wage rates have been set higher than the value of their productivity.

In France, where the national unemployment rate is 10 percent, the unemployment rate among workers less than 26 years old is 23 percent. Among young people from the Muslim minority, the unemployment rate is even higher.

In the United States, the group hardest hit by minimum wage laws are black male teenagers. Those who refuse to admit that the minimum wage is the reason for high unemployment rates among young blacks blame racism, lack of education and whatever else occurs to them.

The hard facts say otherwise. Back in the 1940s, there was no less racism than today and black teenagers had no more education than today, but their unemployment rate was a fraction of what it is now -- and was no different from that of white teenagers.

What was different back then? Although there was a minimum wage law on the books, the inflation of that era had raised wage rates well above the specified minimum, which had remained unchanged for years.&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>may i suggest this from Thomas Sowell today about the minimum wage bein graised in Chicago?</p>
<p>I live in Chicago which is particularly relevant&#8230;.</p>
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<p><em>&#8230;.The economic consequence of political largess &#8212; whether in the form of minimum wage laws or medical or other benefits mandated to be paid for by employers &#8212; is to make labor artificially more expensive.</p>
<p>Countries with generous employee benefits mandated by law &#8212; Germany and France, for example &#8212; have chronically higher unemployment rates than unemployment rates in the United States, where jobs are created at a far higher rate than in Europe.</p>
<p>There is no free lunch. Higher labor costs mean fewer jobs.</p>
<p>Since all workers do not have the same skill or experience, minimum wage laws have more impact on some than on others. Young, inexperienced and unskilled workers are especially likely to find it harder to get a job when wage rates have been set higher than the value of their productivity.</p>
<p>In France, where the national unemployment rate is 10 percent, the unemployment rate among workers less than 26 years old is 23 percent. Among young people from the Muslim minority, the unemployment rate is even higher.</p>
<p>In the United States, the group hardest hit by minimum wage laws are black male teenagers. Those who refuse to admit that the minimum wage is the reason for high unemployment rates among young blacks blame racism, lack of education and whatever else occurs to them.</p>
<p>The hard facts say otherwise. Back in the 1940s, there was no less racism than today and black teenagers had no more education than today, but their unemployment rate was a fraction of what it is now &#8212; and was no different from that of white teenagers.</p>
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