Top 1% 'richer than rest of world'

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Boreas

The problem is that keeping the current minimum wage in place keeps people forced to live on it in poverty. Indexing the current minimum wage to inflation can at best keep those people from falling deeper into poverty but would probably only succeed in slowing the rate at which they fell farther down the economic scale: a down escalator rather than a cliff.

John

Yeah, but every little bit helps.

I have always maintained that if you can only do one thing to help the poor then that one thing should be universal single payer health care. And if you can only do two then add free higher education. And don't tell me we can't afford it. If Cuba can, we sure as Hell can.