{"id":150277,"date":"2015-05-11T19:37:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T19:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=150277"},"modified":"2015-05-11T19:37:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T19:37:55","slug":"raising-the-minimum-wage-is-step-one-in-making-the-economy-work-for-the-many-not-only-the-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/raising-the-minimum-wage-is-step-one-in-making-the-economy-work-for-the-many-not-only-the-few\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising the Minimum Wage Is Step One in Making the Economy Work for the Many, Not Only the Few"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A basic moral principle that most Americans agree on is no one who works full time should be in poverty, nor should their family.<\/p>\n<p>Yet over time we\u2019ve seen significant growth in the \u201cworking poor\u201d \u2014 people working full time, sometimes even 60 or more hours each week, but at such low wages that they remain impoverished.<\/p>\n<p>What to do?<\/p>\n<p>One step is to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. This is winnable. A powerful movement is fighting for $15 an hour and they\u2019re winning new laws in cities and states, and forcing companies to raise wages.<\/p>\n<p>If the minimum wage in 1968 had simply kept up with inflation it would be more than $10 today. \u00a0If it also kept up with the added productivity of American workers since then, it would be more than $21 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Some opponents say minimum wage workers are teenagers seeking some extra pocket money.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"9qPAyJOBylk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"STEP 1: RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9qPAyJOBylk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.org\/post\/118372382285\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A basic moral principle that most Americans agree on is no one who works full time should be in poverty, nor should their family. Yet over time we\u2019ve seen significant growth in the \u201cworking poor\u201d \u2014 people working full time, sometimes even 60 or more hours each week, but at such low wages that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,52,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-150277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-money","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}