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Last week American Apparel, the biggest clothing maker in Los Angeles, said it might outsource the making of some garments to another manufacturer in the U.S., and wiped out about 500 local jobs. In the last decade, local apparel manufacturing has already thinned significantly. Last year, Los Angeles County was home to 2,128 garment makers, down 33% from 2005, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
This is why we need the same minimum wage all over the country backed up by countervailing tariffs that eliminate the savings in wages created in lower wage countries.
This is why we need the same minimum wage all over the country backed up by countervailing tariffs that eliminate the savings in wages created in lower wage countries.
Same minimum wage in NY as in MS? Where the cost to live is a significant difference?
Seems to me this is more of the problem.......be difficult to find skilled workers who can afford to live in the city. Tahoe, California fine example of a place that went from tourism to only the rich can live there and you have to not want much to live and work there. Privately owned beaches, very small public beaches and everything is expensive......the town survives on gambling.......that can always help the less fortunate.
California has not only moved out apparel skilled workers, it has done this in construction, the food industry and who knows where the state will hit next.......soon California will have unskilled workers and no businesses.
Same minimum wage in NY as in MS? Where the cost to live is a significant difference?
I support a raise in the minimum wage but we have covered this before and agreed and will again.
One size does not fit all. I believe we need a floor (with my views being far more complicated than just that) but wages that say work in San Francisco are not what Tupelo Mississippi needs.
This is why we need the same minimum wage all over the country backed up by countervailing tariffs that eliminate the savings in wages created in lower wage countries.
The Democrats had a full year to impose tariffs. Instead they focused on job-destroying luxury 'health' care insurance policy mandates on embattled employers.
The Democrats had a full year to impose tariffs. Instead they focused on job-destroying luxury 'health' care insurance policy mandates on embattled employers.
When are people going to understand that Tariffs become Taxes on everyone Except for the companies that impose them??
The costs, as Always are passed on to the consumer!
George Bush found this out when some industries almost went belly up after Tariffs were imposed!
This is why we need the same minimum wage all over the country backed up by countervailing tariffs that eliminate the savings in wages created in lower wage countries.
So make consumer products more expensive and the government richer, all to protect a special interest ( in this case garment workers)
Central planners are a hoot.
So make consumer products more expensive and the government richer, all to protect a special interest ( in this case garment workers)
Central planners are a hoot.
I am beginning to think that most liberals never took economics in school!
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