{"id":137970,"date":"2019-02-26T11:04:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=137970"},"modified":"2019-02-26T23:51:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T06:51:40","slug":"the-minimum-wage-is-not-a-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/26\/the-minimum-wage-is-not-a-gift.html","title":{"rendered":"The Minimum Wage is not a &#8220;gift&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes, Ivanka &#8212; AND people want to get a livable wage for what they work.  The transaction goes both ways, remarkably enough. What makes you think someone working a minimum wage job isn&#39;t working enough to warrant that amount, or more? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ONTzuR8iUg\">https:\/\/t.co\/ONTzuR8iUg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1100456089844355072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yes, Ivanka &#8212; AND people want to get a livable wage for what they work.  The transaction goes both ways, remarkably enough. What makes you think someone working a minimum wage job isn&#8217;t working enough to warrant that amount, or more? https:\/\/t.co\/ONTzuR8iUg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Ivanka &#8212; AND people want to get a livable wage for what they work. The transaction goes both ways, remarkably enough. What makes you think someone working a minimum wage job isn&#39;t working enough to warrant that amount, or more? https:\/\/t.co\/ONTzuR8iUg &mdash; Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) February 26, 2019 Yes, Ivanka &#8212; AND people want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/26\/the-minimum-wage-is-not-a-gift.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Minimum Wage is not a &#8220;gift&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,528,77,374],"tags":[723],"class_list":["post-137970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets","category-economic-justice","category-economy","category-money-politics","tag-nt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132515,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/05\/when-a-minimum-wage-increase-boosts-business.html","url_meta":{"origin":137970,"position":0},"title":"When a minimum wage increase boosts business","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Jan-17 2:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Most speculation about the impact of minimum wage increases is \"common sense\" style from businessfolk and some economists: if a business has to raise the wages of its employees, and is working under tight margins, then it either has to cut payroll, or raise prices -- which, in turn, hurts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40926,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/30\/youre-worth-what-youre-worth.html","url_meta":{"origin":137970,"position":1},"title":"&quot;You&#39;re Worth What You&#39;re Worth&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 30-Jan-14 2:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Peter Schiff -- millionaire, financial advisor, avowed libertarian -- educates Samantha Bee on The Daily Show about how the minimum wage destroys jobs and is against America's founding principles, because, after all, not all workers are created equal. 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