Why can’t the Louisiana Legislature pass higher minimum-wage legislation, despite repeated attempts? A cogent analysis should start with two incontrovertible facts. On the one hand, if voters believe ...
The city of Longmont is considering a raise of the minimum wage, and a Sept. 1 article in the Times-Call, “Small businesses feel squeeze of rising rate,” raises the alarm that “You’re going to have ...
Your Dec. 29 editorial, “California pols try to kill as many jobs as possible,” took the cake. A headline clearly designed to get readers worked up. Nowhere does it state that 21 other states and 38 ...
Utah’s minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, but that isn’t a liveable wage. Utah has not changed the minimum wage amount since 2009, and things are not the same now compared to then. More than half of the ...
Editor: This is in response to the Baltimore Sun editorial from Dec. 19 (“Time to make federal minimum wage great again”). While we can agree that no one can survive on $7.25 per hour, the reality is ...
The world has changed so very much from what it used to be. Teddy Pendergrass sang these words years ago. Maybe the Bayou State should pay attention to these lyrics when considering what the minimum ...