Governor Easley of North Carolina signed into law Thursday a bill raising the state’s minimum wage by one dollar, to 6.15 an hour, effective at the beginning of January. I’ve long had an interest in seeing an increase in the minimum wage. Economically it makes sense, because those earning the minimum wage will be ableContinue reading “On the Minimum Wage”
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On Receiving a Letter
After years of writing to Senator Elizabeth Dole, today I at last received a response. I’d written to Senators Burr and Dole several weeks ago, to ask for their support of an increase in the minimum wage. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York had sponsored legislation to raise the minimum wage (and tie future CongressionalContinue reading “On Receiving a Letter”
On the Minimum Wage
Senator Hillary Clinton of New York introduced a bill last week, the Standing with Minimum Wage Workers Act of 2006, that would provide for an increase in the federal minimum wage, from its current $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour within two years and then index future minimum wage increases to Congressional pay raises.Continue reading “On the Minimum Wage”
More on Writing My Senators
Several weeks ago I wrote to my two senators, Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr, about the importance of the filibuster in protecting the rights of the minority as, at that time, the question of the legality of filibusters on judicial nominees was in play. The Senate, I wrote them, was in George Washington’s formulation theContinue reading “More on Writing My Senators”