More people are working and working more hours. This has helped push the median household income for Americans up to nearly $63,000. Unfortunately for American workers, the booming economy that has created more work for them has not compelled employers to increase the real wages of workers according to Ryan Nunn, the policy director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institute. For household incomes to remain high and continue to rise as fewer workers become available to enter the job market and current employees max out their capacity to work longer hours, employers will have to increase wages. They will, of course, only have a reason to do so, if they wish to retain their seasoned employees in a competitive job market or they need to attract new employees from a shirking pool of the unemployed. Businesses, which do not meet the interests of their employees, will soon have to make strategic decision on how they will handle increased employee turnover and increased job vacancies.
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Amazon Now Pays A Minimum Wage Of $15 Per Hour, But More Is Needed To Find Value In Workers10/5/2018 Amazon has decided to set the minimum wage for its US employees at $15 per hour while offering employees making more than that amount a $1 raise. Given that $15 per hour rate is generally regarded to be the approximate wage needed by an American working forty hours per week to maintain a minimal modern standard of living, Amazon’s leadership has essentially decided to guarantee its full-time workers an actual living wage. Recognizing warehouse workers, who will be the main class of Amazon workers impacted by this policy shift, typically make around $15 per hour, Amazon’s leadership has chosen to align the online retailer’s payroll with market expectations. The impact on Whole Foods retail employees may put pressure on other retailers to raise wages as well. In an usually move, Amazon's leadership has also called for US lawmakers to raise the US minimum wage to $15 per hour. Not only has this revitalized the ailing labor campaign for a $15 minimum wage, it has renewed the need to discuss the issues surrounding a minimum living wage.
Feminist activists have seized upon the MeToo social media movement and the Kavanaugh Sex Assault Scandal to compel society to take action against sexual assault. Feminists have also capitalized on the new found willingness to tackle crimes against women in order to further their other causes. For radical feminists, the only way to further women’s issues is to suppress and emasculate males. They believe it is necessary to strip away the “masculinity” of boys and men in order to support the empowerment of women. Obviously, this radical view invites unnecessary social conflict and exasperates the underlying tensions already expected from a social power shift. The empowerment of women means men have less undue over power women, thus certain men feel the empowerment of women disempowers them. For men who feel this way, current events raise fears of a radical feminist political takeover. President Donald Trump summarized this budding counter movement by claiming this alleged era of false allegations is a ‘scary time’ for men.
California’s reputation as a liberal stronghold is deeply entrenched in the American political system. Because California has the largest State economy and, subsequently, the largest State population, it holds a great deal of sway over US elections and public policy. It also often takes the first steps forward in major social changes while setting regulatory standards for the whole country by virtue of the economic and political leverage it holds. Through California’s pursuit of liberal laws and regulations, it is able to defend the rights and freedoms of individual Americans, including those who live beyond its borders. California’s new net neutrality law, for example, takes action to protect internet users and content providers from the whims of internet service providers at a time when the Trump Administration has stripped away Obama-era protections. The liberalism of California is, therefore, beneficial to Americans. There are, however, times when that liberalism becomes illiberal to the detriment of Californians and all other Americans.
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