Jim Pederson's Blog - May 2006
It's time to increase the minimum wage.
This is a moral issue that has been ignored by the Republican Congress and President Bush, like so many of the critical concerns facing the nation. The minimum wage, stuck at $5.15 per hour, hasn't been touched since 1997. Since then, the cost of food, healthcare and childcare, and just about every other conceivable measure that determines the cost of living, has increased. A single parent making the minimum wage today earns $10,700 annually, more than $4,000 below the poverty line. Read More »
This is a moral issue that has been ignored by the Republican Congress and President Bush, like so many of the critical concerns facing the nation. The minimum wage, stuck at $5.15 per hour, hasn't been touched since 1997. Since then, the cost of food, healthcare and childcare, and just about every other conceivable measure that determines the cost of living, has increased. A single parent making the minimum wage today earns $10,700 annually, more than $4,000 below the poverty line. Read More »
In our political system, there is no more outrageous symbol of the power of money and the influence wielded by lobbyists (outside of Jack Abramoff) than the Medicare prescription drug bill.
Seniors were an afterthought in the writing of that legislation, as more than 900 lobbyists from the pharmaceutical industry and the HMO's massaged senators and representatives to produce the kind of legislation that only a corporate board member could love.
It's time to fix the mess. We need to keep the promise we made to America's seniors when the prescription drug bill was first being discussed. Read More »
Seniors were an afterthought in the writing of that legislation, as more than 900 lobbyists from the pharmaceutical industry and the HMO's massaged senators and representatives to produce the kind of legislation that only a corporate board member could love.
It's time to fix the mess. We need to keep the promise we made to America's seniors when the prescription drug bill was first being discussed. Read More »
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