Minimum Wage on the Front Burner

MINIMUM WAGES (hourly): Fought for by President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1938 — 25 cents, which would be more than $4 nowIn 1974 — $2 per hourNow — $7.25Proposed by President Barack Obama in State of the Union Address — $9.00 per hourHow much it would need to be, if...

Minimum Wage Logic Accepted

“Consider the source” is usually said skeptically, and, of course, we always do consider it, whether skeptical or not. Here, the source is pretty impressive. It is The Economist, which Steve O’Keefe, writing for House the Homeless, described as “the house...

KFC Says, Get a Job — LOL!

Last June, this Question & Answer appeared in the online forum ExpertLaw.com: Question:Is it legal for an employer to deny employment to an individual who they consider otherwise qualified, if it is discovered that the individual currently lives in a...

Aspects of the Minimum Wage Conversation

What, you may ask, is depicted here? It’s an artwork called “Minimum Wage Machine, (Work in Progress),” a simple but elegant interactive demonstration by which anyone may comprehend the implications of those words. Here is the explanation provided by Blake...

Counting the Homeless in Austin

To satisfy the federal requirement for the information that is needed to fairly distribute available funding, the people experiencing homelessness are counted every year. House the Homeless blog has taken an extended look at the “how” of the annual...