However, I just as much love having given my employees a living wage and great benefits.
On both sides of the Atlantic, I know plenty of people who are in my position - successful wage earners thrown out of work for the apostasy of turning 50.
And the fact that his nominal (face value) covered earnings is being compared with my earnings up through 60, albeit indexed by wage growth through age 60, means that I and everyone else in my boat that earns above the ceiling can benefit, potentially big time, from working very late in life.
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Every year, my company hires hundreds of minimum wage workers for seasonal campground management jobs.
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My best guess today is that wage and salary growth will weaken through year end and be worse if the payroll tax cut is not renewed.
From a family with no other college graduates and only one who attempted it, I was bound to work for slightly above minimum wage for the rest of my life.
My recent Forbes article about the minimum wage contains some claims, facts, and figures based on economic theory and an extensive body of research by economists who have studied the employment effects of the minimum wage.
But the bottom line is that a larger number of people are willing to pay a considerably larger price to watch college football than they are to listen to me discuss wage disparities and income inequality in my Principles of Microeconomics class.
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But many of them do choose to locate in the expensive city and pay the high wage, and as I point out in my book, expensive places like Silicon Valley employ a larger share of American workers in high value, export industries than do cheap places like Houston.
Since my current loans involve me repaying seven hundred dollars a month as a minimum for the next fifteen years with only 12 months of forbearance, I have come to the conclusion that I must make at least a wage of twenty dollars an hour simply to cover my basic living expenses in order to simply survive.
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"If the next minimum wage goes into effect the bottom line will be, my door will be closed, " said Harriet Cane, who owns a small restaurant and coffee shop in Marietta, Ga.
One of the major factors associated with this decline is, in my view, the decline in unionization, which eliminates the major source of wage growth for middle-wage production workers.
Because despite my usual us v them attitude, when it comes to under-employment and wage-scarring caused by the recession, male or female, around the world, twentysomethings are all in this together.
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Apparently, my little group of three or four disco haters were not the only ones who wanted to wage war against the Donna Summers of the world.
President BUSH: On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war.
And that, my friends, is precisely why we continue to argue about technology, get branded as a "fanboy" and wage wars of words about the ways that we all use our stuff.
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