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12 Ways ObamaCare Has Failed The Working Class

Jed Graham | Investor's Business Daily | October 25, 2015

How could a law intended to make health care affordable and reduce inequality end up failing — or even hurting — millions of working-class Americans who were supposed to benefit? At least a dozen different ways.ObamaCare is helping millions of people, as one would expect of such a vast and costly undertaking. Yet the law has so many serious flaws that it's hard to keep track of them. This accounting, or cheat sheet, of ObamaCare flaws that hit the working class especially hard, reveals why the law will yield more bitter fruit as it ages.

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Fast-Food CEOs Earn Supersize Salaries; Workers Earn Small Potatoes

Allison Aubrey | The Salt | April 22, 2014

At a time when fast-food workers make an average of about $9 an hour, what are the chief executives bringing home? According to a new report, YUM! (owner of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut) compensated its CEO $22 million in 2013. [...] Read More »

The Conservative Case For A Higher Minimum Wage

Ron Unz | The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection | February 3, 2014

Over the last couple of months the minimum wage has moved into the political headlines, but most of the arguments for raising it have come from liberals. That’s fine, but since I’m not a liberal, I’d rather focus on the conservative reasons for supporting a much higher minimum wage, which are just as compelling. Read More »

This Lawsuit Threatens To End Walmart’s Exploitative Ways

Lina Khan | Quartz | February 7, 2014

Last week President Obama urged businesses to “give America a raise.” But even if the minimum wage were raised, it wouldn’t necessarily help a huge class of low-wage employees. That’s because firms like Walmart don’t directly employ the workers hauling or selling their goods. [...] Read More »