When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than tha...
Any dictatorship takes a psychological toll on its subjects. If you are treated as anuntrustworthy person-a potential slacker, drug addict, or thief-you may begin to feel less trust worthy yourself. I...
A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment.
Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum w...
Clockers asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from...