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Adjusted for inflation, today’s federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour is 23% lower than it was in 1968.
At the current minimum wage, a worker employed full-time for a full year earns only $15,080 – 19% below the poverty line for a family of three.
Recent research suggests that an increase in the minimum wage would have a powerful positive effect, with a 10% increase cutting the poverty rate by 2%.
Indeed, about 30 million workers would benefit from an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, as proposed by Congressional Democrats.
Raising the minimum wage is the right next step.
Developed countries need only figure out the minimum price they have to pay developing countries to go along.
EU-wide coordination of these minimum guaranteed income schemes should be gradually pursued, with the long-term intention of building up a pan-European safety net as one of the institutional pillars of the EU.
Many of us enjoy minimum protections of speech and assembly, though these are inevitably hard won, imperfect, and fragile.
At a minimum, currency unions require a confederation with far more centralized power over taxation and other policies than European leaders envision for the eurozone.
This is how it works: In exchange for being paid a guaranteed price and meeting “agreed labor and environmental standards” (minimum wages, no pesticides), poor-country farming cooperatives receive a FAIRTRADE mark for their products, issued by the FAIRTRADE Labeling Organization.
Nor is FAIRTRADE necessarily a guarantee of quality: because producers get a minimum price for fair-trade goods, they sell the best of their crop on the open market.
At a minimum, the central bank now needs the assistance of that part of the government that taxes and borrows.
Of 3,007 counties in the US, a worker earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour can afford a one-bedroom rental in only 12.
In San Francisco, where the median house price is over $1.5 million, a single mother earning the minimum wage would have to work 120 hours per week to meet her basic needs.
But most of the earnings subject to the minimum tax would not be the result of profit-shifting to tax havens; they would be generated by real economic activity to serve foreign markets.
Furthermore, while non-US companies can take advantage of the generous patent boxes in 12 EU countries, US companies would be subject to the much higher minimum rate, undermining their ability both to compete in these markets and to acquire foreign companies with desirable intellectual property.
This would include, at a minimum, reforms of labor rules, pension systems, and anti-growth provisions of tax codes.
Those tools include caps, linked to borrowers’ characteristics, on loan-to-value ratios; direct limits on currency and maturity mismatches in financial institutions’ balance sheets; limits on their balance sheets’ interconnectedness; and minimum reserve requirements for specific financial instruments.
But Bangladesh’s government is considering an increase in the minimum wage.
To prevent housing prices from overshooting on the downside, the number of foreclosures has to be kept to a minimum.
Germany remains willing to do the minimum – and nothing more – to hold the euro together, and the EU’s recent steps have merely reinforced German resistance to further concessions.
Rather than open a checking account – and maintain the required minimum balance of $1,000 – I did what Japanese did: carry large amounts of yen and pay for everything in cash.
A high point of the meeting was the speech by Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, who stressed the marked change in her institution, at least at the top: deep concern about women’s rights; renewed emphasis on the link between inequality and instability; and recognition that collective bargaining and minimum wages could play an important role in reducing inequality.
At a minimum, the eurozone’s weaker members will undergo increased market pressures.
The boom in America’s prison population in recent decades is the result of ramped up punitive crime-prevention measures, including tougher drug penalties and mandatory minimum sentences, backed up by growing numbers of police and other law-enforcement officials.
Now that it has achieved the minimum efficient scale, new entrants cannot easily use competitive pressure to squeeze Uber’s margins.
As a signal to both, Nato’s military presence in the Baltics should be kept to a minimum.
Second, with banks losing substantial amounts of equity capital – estimates now reach $300 billion and more – the need to maintain minimum equity-debt ratios will force them to curtail business lending, hindering investment demand.
This summit must, at a minimum, serve as a powerful call to states to uphold the established norms, but also to impel others to do so.
In this new system, importing countries would collect taxes – on the basis of the newly set minimum wage – and remittances would remain untaxed.
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