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True, Germany is insisting on a “fiscal stability union” as a condition of allowing the ECB to do even the minimum needed to keep the euro afloat; but this is a political argument, not an economic one.
In exchange, firms must go beyond minimum corporate social-responsibility standards to help advance human well-being and environmental sustainability.
One remarkable trend of the last few years has been the adoption or increase of minimum wages by countries hoping to mitigate inequality, with Mexico being the most recent example.
And the trend is set to continue: South Africa, for one, is also considering adopting a national minimum wage.
Recent evidence, including by the Minimum Wage Commission in Germany, shows that well-designed minimum wages – which meet the needs of workers and their families, while also accounting for economic conditions – can make a real difference at the lower end of the income distribution, without significantly harming employment.
Each country asks itself, “How do I do the least and get the other countries to do the most?,” when they should be asking instead, “How do we cooperate to achieve our shared goals at minimum cost and maximum benefit?”
Plans to raise the minimum wage, for example, should pose few problems, as it will remain no higher relative to labor productivity than in France or the United Kingdom.
At a minimum, a thorough reexamination and full public debate must precede the construction of any new nuclear plant.
As of last December, Banco Popular still had a tier 1 capital ratio of over 12%, which is only slightly below average and 50% above the minimum requirement.
But excessive compensation is just another direct consequence of the regulators’ own mistake of setting insufficient minimum capital requirements.
Thus, if the Democrats demonstrate a minimum of compassion, sensitivity, and realism, they can count on a 7% advantage in the popular vote.
And to get the corporate-tax rate below 30%, Republicans would have to impose a large minimum tax on these firms’ foreign profits.
And conversely, without minimum opportunity for all, liberty is more illusory than real.
Experience with alcohol suggests that marijuana will be available to underage users (as it is now), whatever the minimum legal age.
Colonel Mathieu is the unsung hero of current counter-insurgency orthodoxy, which requires a minimum military presence in the target country, mainly of intelligence agencies like the CIA and “special forces.”
A new corporate-tax credit will cut payroll taxes by 6% for all wages below 2.5 times the minimum wage – a step that will benefit more than 80% of all salaried workers.
At a minimum, this means publicizing agendas in advance and ensuring that deliberations are conducted in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which defines a “fair” trial as a public hearing conducted by an independent and impartial arbiter.
The same is true of minimum wages.
The capital requirements attached to that subsidiary would be more burdensome, with minimum Tier One capital set at 10%, compared to the new Basel 3 standard of 7%.
The narrow path ahead is to determine, on a case-by-case basis, the minimum requirements of effective collective action, and to forge agreement on reforms that fulfill these conditions.
Hughes’s solution to the problem of inequality is to tax the rich in order to provide a guaranteed minimum income to the lower and middle classes.
Hughes’s proposal for a minimum guaranteed income is a step in the right direction, but it would be a mistake to view it as the panacea.
One might think that giving everyone a minimum guaranteed income would correct this injustice.
In a country that is much more educated than it was a generation ago, voters have come to expect a minimum level of competence from their leaders.
Of course, for them and for Israel, this was Hezbollah and the need to eradicate or at a minimum disarm it and force its fighters to a safe distance from settlements and towns in northern Israel.
That is why the liberal theory of justice demands at a minimum equality of opportunity: the attempt – as far as is compatible with personal liberty – to eliminate all those differences in life chances arising from unequal starting points.
As our societies have become richer, we have come to believe that everyone is entitled to a minimum standard, whether in work or sickness or unemployment, which allows for a continuing level of comfort and flourishing.
California is also one of 21 states that raised its minimum wage this year.
By 2022, its statewide minimum wage will be $15 per hour – the highest in the country.
Kansas, by contrast, is one of a handful of states that still adheres to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
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