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    Mohsin Hamid’s dynamic yet lapidary books have all explored the convulsive changes overtaking the world, as tradition and modernity clash headlong, and as refugees — fleeing war or poverty or hopelessness — try to make their way to safer ground. His compelling new novel, “Exit West,” is no exception, recounting the story of the migrants Saeed and Nadia, who leave an unnamed country in the midst of a civil war and journey to Greece, England and eventually the United States in an effort to invent new lives for themselves.

     

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  2. 50 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    The cap on property tax deductions alone is a kick in the pants for a lot of people.  We'll see how it works out, but I'm sure not on board with trading a modest reduction in tax burden for selling out wholesale to a sworn enemy as well as destroying almost every social and cultural advance since WWII.

    SALT cap hasn't been implemented yet, I thought.

  3. Sarah Jeong is a well respected journalist that keeps being slandered by right wing fanatics like TexasHammer

    No one is silencing “conservatives”. “Conservatives” are harassing and playing the victim card even though they are the perpetrators of abuse.

    Actions have consequences and “conservatives” can’t hide behind their false narrative any longer.

  4. 1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    If only there was a way to prevent abortions without government intervention.

    Sexual education and contraception are just too hard to get behind for the pro-lifer.

    No, we need the government to solve this “problem”. 

    Kavanaugh called birth control as abortion inducing pill. 

    Guy is an extremist that probably believes that abstinence is the only form of birth control 

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  5. Another Republican policy argument found to be a flat out lie.

     

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    Minimum wage increases in six U.S. cities boosted worker pay without harming job growth, according to a study released Thursday by University of California at Berkeley researchers.

    Economists at the school’s Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics examined U.S. Labor Department data from the first major cities to raise their local wage floors above $10 an hour: Washington, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.
    In the food services industry, a major employer of low wage workers, a 10 percent increase in minimum pay increased average weekly earnings 1.3 percent to 2.5 percent on average across the six cities, the authors found. They found no “significant negative employment effects.” Instead, they estimated the impact on jobs at between a 0.3 percent reduction and a 1.1 percent gain.
    “Policies are working as the policy makers intended,” paper co-author Sylvia Allegretto, a labor economist and co-chair of the center, said in an interview. “The sky is not falling.”
    While the federal minimum wage has been $7.25 per hour since 2009, cities and states have made a slew of increases in their own wage floors, spurredin part by protests mounted by low-wage workers in industries such as fast food. New York City employers with 11 or more staff now must pay at least $13 per hour, and $15 starting Dec. 31.

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    “With a substantial number of additional cities and states poised to soon enact similar policies, a large portion of the U.S. labor market will be held to a higher wage standard than has been typical over the past 50 years,” the economists wrote.

    As a result, they estimate, such policies will increase pay directly for 15 percent to 30 percent of the workforce in cities raising their minimums and as much as 50 percent of the workforce in some industries and regions. By contrast, they said, “the federal and state minimum wage increases between 1984 and 2014 increased pay directly for less than eight percent of the applicable workforce.”

    The findings contrast with a study by University of Washington economists last year that estimated Seattle’s $13 minimum wage reduced hours worked in low-wage jobs. The Berkeley economists suggest that Washington’s study failed to account for a Seattle-area employment boom at the time that led to workers moving from lower-wage to higher-wage jobs.

    City and state minimum wage hikes have helped spur congressional Democrats and some seeking the party’s 2020 presidential nomination to call for a nationwide $15 minimum. As a candidate, President Donald Trump said American wages were too high to be globally competitive, then later that the minimum wage “has to go up” but that the issue should be left to the states rather than the federal government.

     https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-06/higher-minimum-wage-boosts-pay-without-reducing-jobs-study-says

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