{"id":457,"date":"2006-06-14T19:28:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T01:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/2006\/06\/14\/from-the-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do-department\/"},"modified":"2006-06-14T19:29:04","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T01:29:04","slug":"from-the-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2006\/06\/from-the-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do-department\/","title":{"rendered":"From the &#8220;Do as I say, not as I do&#8221; Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/\">from Cato-at-Liberty.org<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2006\/06\/14\/minimum-wage-from-the-horses-mouth\/\">Minimum Wage:  From the Horse\u2019s Mouth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Via the admitedly pro-business <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epionline.org\/study_detail.cfm?sid=1\" target=\"_blank\">Employment Policies Institute<\/a>, a funny anecdote regarding this whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2006\/06\/14\/minimum-wage-wizardry\/\" target=\"_blank\">minimum wage debate<\/a>:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The generally accepted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acorn.org\/index.php?id=10264\" target=\"_blank\">leading advocacy group<\/a> for so-called &#8220;living wage&#8221; laws around the country is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.  In it&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/livingwagecampaign.org\/index.php?id=1956\" target=\"_blank\">Resource Guide<\/a><\/em> for activists, written by David Reynolds of the Wayne State University Labor Studies Center, ACORN casts aside concerns about minimum wage laws resulting in fewer jobs for low-wage workers, scolding<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s low road thinking, the kind of philosophy that seeks short-term increases in the bottom-line by directly lowering costs and casts high wages, benefits, and other worker protections as obstacles to competition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>But in 1995, ACORN actually went to court in California in an attemp to <em>exempt<\/em> ACORN from that state&#8217;s minimum wage and overtime laws.  Why?  Well, according to ACORN&#8217;s brief in an appeal of the ruling against them:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the more that ACORN must pay each individual outreach worker &#8211; either because of minimum wage or overtime requirements &#8211; <strong><em>the fewer outreach workers it will be able to hire.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-indent:20pt;\">The U.S. Chamber of Commerce couldn&#8221;t have said it any better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Cato-at-Liberty.org: Minimum Wage: From the Horse\u2019s Mouth: Via the admitedly pro-business Employment Policies Institute, a funny anecdote regarding this whole minimum wage debate: The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-7n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}