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Hundreds of fast food workers are striking nationwide Tuesday, joining other workers in pressing for a more livable wage. But while some say $15 is a minimum needed to survive, some business owners say dishing out more pay would leave them struggling to keep their doors open.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fast-food-workers-strike-again-nationwide-for-15-an-hour
In New York City, rallies are being held in Harlem, the Financial District and Brooklyn in support of efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, reports CBS New York.
In Los Angeles, the local protests are organized by Service Employees International Union, and include fast-food, home-care and child-care workers, along with other "underpaid" employees, reports CBS Los Angeles.
"Is this the America we believe in? When someone works all day long and they still can't get by," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said during an early-morning rally in Downtown Brooklyn. "Does anyone believe that it's easy to get by in New York City on less than $15 an hour?"
Critics say a $15 minimum wage would obliterate opportunity and usher in higher taxes, but de Blasio said the opposite is true -- with more money to spend, low wage workers contribute more to the economy.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @06:23AM
A Neoconservative likes his country to spend a bunch on weapons and to have a giant military in order to project power.
The term "Chickenhawk" often has significant overlap.
"World policeman" is one of their favorite concepts.
The term you are looking for is Neoliberal:
Gov't regulation is bad; unregulated ("free") trade is good; privatize everything; race-to-the-bottom economics; things only happen because of the rich (ownership class).
It's not exactly an intuitive term.
-- gewg_
(Score: 3, Insightful) by compro01 on Wednesday November 11 2015, @06:53AM
The overlap between the politicians espousing neoconservative ideology and the ones espousing neoliberal ideology is so near complete in the USA, UK, and Canada that they're basically synonymous.
(Score: 2) by Mr Big in the Pants on Wednesday November 11 2015, @06:57AM
Nope:
neoconservative
adjective
1.relating to or denoting a return to a modified form of a traditional viewpoint, in particular a political ideology characterized by an emphasis on free-market capitalism and an interventionist foreign policy.
In this case the tradition being returned to us one of robber barons, lords and peasants in poverty with an almost non-existent middle class.
This is very much on the way there in a big way.