http://www.pbs.org/billmoyers Holly Sklar, co-author of RAISE THE FLOOR: WAGES AND POLICIES THAT WORK FOR ALL OF US, discusses what current economic conditions say about the state of the American dream. Airs Friday, June 13, at 9p.m. on PBS (check local listings). For more: http://www.pbs.org/billmoyers
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as long as those outside the country believe we are crumbling...i say great job, keep it up and more power to you
EvanChaim(Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 03:43:17 PM)
Microeconomics 101: Price ceilings (price cannot exceed a certain amount) create shortages
Price floors create shortages (price cannot go below a certain amount) create surpluses
-In this case raising the minimum wage would create unemployment (ceteris parabis) and really hurt the most vulnerable low income workers..
Please. If you really care about the poor, then let the market determine what is a fair wage!!!
RojoPirata(Saturday 12th of July 2008 10:13:18 AM)
Brief answer to 'CrowdP'..."manufacturing decline important since union power traditionally strong in large industrial companies,like steel & auto. Globalization has increased the competition outside control of unions in any country, including production by employees abroad of same company. Government provisions of unemployment, retirement, health benefits, & various regulatory controls have substituted services of unions...laws & attitudes toward unions less favorable in US than other nations."
4ourthofjuly(Saturday 12th of July 2008 02:16:13 AM)
I think theyre stable at 9% of non governmental employees, and have been for a while. Unions were repeatedly broken by government and private power for a hundred years, what do you expect?
I would say workers reject unions because theyre imperfect. But you probably wouldnt get rid of all government because it's flawed, would you?
That was a wonderful, illuminating discussion. If only America was watching THIS instead of American Idol. Americans are the hardest working imbeciles on Earth. We'll buy anything.
randoozer351(Friday 27th of June 2008 06:43:48 PM)
Yep. That won't happen though so we ought to do the next best thing, vote for a president who is smart enough (or humble enough) to surround themselves with a cabinet full of people like her. I think that maybe the worst part about bush was the cronyism that let his stupidity leak much farther through the fabric of our government. Such a thing deserves a name... my vote is "super-stupidity."
randoozer351(Friday 27th of June 2008 06:38:51 PM)
Unions are in decline because the rich (ie Republicans) have done a very effective job in convincing the poor that the effect of unions is to make the products produced by union workers expensive. Nevermind the fact that, in practice, this actually does happen because the people at the top won't stand a drop from making $2M a year to making $ 1.8M a year... unions ARE positive because they give workers the stability necessary to let them spend their money and drive the economy.
herpescrabman(Wednesday 18th of June 2008 04:34:21 PM)
aaahhh
your empire is collapsing prematurely?
it takes talent and brains to keep an empire going for a few hundread years-
your lasted 60 years.
they don't make empires like they used to.
herpescrabman(Wednesday 18th of June 2008 04:25:05 PM)
ironic how many people u.s. killed in south america and how many governments it overthrew, to keep socialism from their shores.
now socialism is goint to come to the u.s. because of greed and inbalance of wealth.
