Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Trump 'open' to raising federal minimum wage in GOP agenda break

Soon after becoming the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump said he would be open to raising the federal minimum wage in a notable reversal of GOP policy.
During a debate in November, Trump said he would oppose raising the federal minimum wage, which is currently $7.25 an hour.
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Monday, April 18, 2016

Bern Slap: Verizon CEO Blasts Bernie

Bernie Sanders was hit hard last week when the CEO of Verizon called him out on his hypocritical support of employment practices that will make it harder for Bernie’s voter base—Millennials—to earn a living wage.“Feeling the Bern of reality yet, Bernie?” Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam asked after the socialist senator accused Verizon of planning to “outsource decent paying jobs” due to “corporate greed”—and then hugged union supporters on the Verizon picket line in Brooklyn, New York.Read more at Townhall.com Read More......