Some of my friends in the graduate program in Geography at Hopkins were involved early on in the living wage campaign with the help of David Harvey. I personally did some research into the for-profit janitorial service subsidiary owned by Hopkins. There was a lot of living wage stuff going on in Baltimore in the '90's. You bet some of the Wal-Mart targeted legislation that was vetoed by Ehrlich and overruled by the state reps in MD is a direct result of the same folks who fought for a living wage. Getting paid a living wage also means getting benefits from your paying job and not just shoving off those expenses onto the entire tax base.
I pay my taxes for roads and national defense, not so that fully employed people get benefits to cover living and health care. If you work a 40-hour work week, you should get that. Otherwise what are we all working for as a nation?
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Date: 2006-01-16 04:23 am (UTC)Some of my friends in the graduate program in Geography at Hopkins were involved early on in the living wage campaign with the help of David Harvey. I personally did some research into the for-profit janitorial service subsidiary owned by Hopkins. There was a lot of living wage stuff going on in Baltimore in the '90's. You bet some of the Wal-Mart targeted legislation that was vetoed by Ehrlich and overruled by the state reps in MD is a direct result of the same folks who fought for a living wage. Getting paid a living wage also means getting benefits from your paying job and not just shoving off those expenses onto the entire tax base.
I pay my taxes for roads and national defense, not so that fully employed people get benefits to cover living and health care. If you work a 40-hour work week, you should get that. Otherwise what are we all working for as a nation?