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The Hill: Looking Beyond the Minimum Wage

  • August 8, 2014
  • Jacob Humerick

The conversation surrounding economic inequality in the United States has risen from its usual steady drone to a headline-grabbing roar in recent weeks. Unlike in 2011, when protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street acted as the main catalysts of the discussion, today the debate erupts from all sides of the issue.

Billboards in San Francisco decry the efforts to raise the minimum wage as a job-killer, while many around the country begin their “live the wage campaign”. Nick Hanauer, self-proclaimed plutocrat, warns his fellow .01%ers that unless economic inequality is reduced soon, the proverbial pitchforks will come for them. Sen. Ted Cruz continues to predictably denounce “job-killing minimum wage legislation,” while the Obama administration continues its equally predictable relentless barrage of advertising insisting that the current minimum wage is not a living wage.

Read the full article at The Hill.

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