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Marylee Shrider: Minimum wage hike hurts business

The $8 minimum wage has profound impacts on business, columnist Marylee Shrider writes this week. She's seeing it in higher prices on menus around town. And the business owners and managers she talked with say it's making them adjust hours down and hold off on hiring. So was the $8 minimum...

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Is capitalism best economic model?

A recent blog about California's minimum wage increase predictably expanded into a discussion about everything from Vietnam, feminism and illegal immigration to Monica Lewinsky. It also led to debates over the benefits and drawbacks of capitalism. So why not debate (hopefully in a civil...

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Is raising CA minimum wage a good thing?

California’s minimum wage will increase from the current $6.75 an hour to $7.50 an hour on Jan. 1 and to $8 an hour on Jan. 1, 2008. Worker's rights groups say the increase is needed given the state's high cost of living and will help out working families. Pro-business groups warn the...

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Increasing the Minimum Wage

Recently, I stumbled across two article's in BC's newspaper, The Renegade RIP, (http://www.therip.com/news/... about the minimum wage being...

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