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Rather, the eurozone should aim to achieve the
minimum
required to remain resilient under such conditions.
Reintroducing national currencies today would take weeks, at a minimum, whereas Britain in 1931 could take sterling off gold while the markets were closed for the weekend.
Tax hikes for high-income earners and large property owners would help to finance these expenditures, while increases in the
minimum
wage would round out income redistribution efforts.
It maps out the architecture needed to “guarantee the
minimum
level of convergence required for the EMU to function effectively,” and calls for a more integrated financial, budgetary, and economic policy framework.
Water supplies in many refugee camps, in both Jordan and Lebanon, have been cut to a
minimum
– a decision that affects millions of people who are already enduring scorching temperatures.
A number of practical steps are needed:-- the number of bureaucrats must be reduced to a bare
minimum.
The group also agreed to enhance the CMIM’s flexibility by reducing the
minimum
portion of crisis lending to be tied to the International Monetary Fund’s lending program from 80% to 70%.
By contrast, many of the countries that ranked highly in our sustainability rankings did so because their public pensions systems covered only the bare
minimum
necessary to keep retirees out of absolute poverty.
In fact, it is possible that we are entering a period in which major adaptations in employment models, work weeks, contract labor,
minimum
wages, and the delivery of essential public services will be needed in order to maintain social cohesion and uphold the core values of equity and intergenerational mobility.
Mexican mortgages are indexed to inflation, but the state mortgage agency links that index to the
minimum
wage and makes up the difference if mortgage interest adjustments for inflation outpace wage growth.
This party, now using the presumptuous name “The Left,” has gained a foothold in West Germany with its impossible promises of higher pensions, a
minimum
hourly wage of €10, huge public investment schemes, and zero unemployment – in short, exactly the kind of socialist paradise that failed in East Germany.
But such is the importance of this challenge – and so dire are the consequences of failure to overcome it – that the Commission strongly recommends the adoption of a drug-treatment policy with
minimum
standards across the region.
There are some international agreements, notably the Basel Accords on
minimum
capital requirements; and there is also good cooperation among market regulators.
Should the
minimum
wage be raised?
The recent increase in South Korea’s
minimum
normal retirement age has done little to improve the labor-market outlook.
Where localities try to offload support for the poor onto other localities, the central government must step in and either fund such programs directly or set
minimum
standards.
While in office, she has established a
minimum
wage, lowered the retirement age to 63 (for those with 45 years of contributions), and legalized same-sex marriage – policies that are anathema to traditional conservatism, but that now have broad popular support.
Senator Tom Harkin recently proposed a national plan with many similar features, open to all workers whose employer plans do not meet
minimum
requirements.
We could, therefore, advocate that everyone with income to spare, after meeting their family's basic needs, should contribute a
minimum
of 0.4% of their income to organizations working to help the world's poorest people, and that would probably be enough to meet the Millennium goals.
But if, in order to change our standards in a manner that stands a realistic chance of success, we focus on what we can expect everyone to do, there is something to be said for setting a donation of 1% of annual income to overcome world poverty as the bare
minimum
that one must do to lead a morally decent life.
In the US, three steps can be taken now to achieve this goal: a substantial increase in the
minimum
wage and a robust earned income tax credit (EITC), both indexed to regional costs of living and automatically adjusted for inflation; and easy enrollment of eligible workers for federal and state benefits.
Currently, the
minimum
wage in Fresno, California, is $11 per hour; in San Francisco, it is $15 per hour.
Both companies and governments can help close the gap between living and
minimum
wages.
For their part, local and state governments can close the gap – currently $3 per hour in Fresno and $6 per hour in San Francisco, by raising the
minimum
wage and expanding EITC coverage and other benefits.
Measures to raise the
minimum
wage and index it to the cost of living are already underway in many parts of the US.
If applied nationally, a $15 hourly
minimum
wage (roughly equal to 50% of the economy-wide median wage), adjusted for regional cost-of-living differences, would mean another $144 billion for workers by 2024.
After raising the
minimum
wage, the next step is to expand the EITC, by broadening its income and eligibility criteria, increasing its size, and making it available in periodic payments instead of an annual lump sum.
As for inequality, we may need to offset it through overt redistribution, with higher
minimum
wages or income support unrelated to people’s price in the job market, and through generous provision of high-quality public goods.
The government, recognizing the need to rebalance growth, began to raise the
minimum
wage in 2011 at nearly double the rate of real GDP growth, ensuring that the average household had more disposable income to spend.
Obama also called for an increase in the
minimum
wage to combat income inequality.
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