72 - The Upcoming Minimum Wage Battle: How To Counter Right-Wing Propaganda

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🗓️ 14 December 2006

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Democrats have proclaimed that before 100 hours have gone by in the new Congress this January, they will, among other things, raise the Federal minimum wage.The bill, which has been languishing for years in the right-wing controlled Congress, is called the Fair Minimum Wage Act. It provides for three hikes: from the present $5.15 to $5.85 sixty days after enactment; to $6.55 one year later,

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is Podcast No. 72 of Blast the Right.
0:23.8	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com, www.TheRationalRadical.com
0:30.9	Today we're going to discuss the upcoming critically important battle in Congress over raising the federal minimum wage.
0:37.9	We need to be ready to counter the inevitable barrage of right-wing propaganda that will be directed against any such effort.
0:45.9	Let's get right into it.
0:47.9	The Democrats have proclaimed that, before 100 hours have gone by in the new Congress this January,
0:54.9	they will, among other things, raise the federal minimum wage.
0:59.9	The bill, which has been languishing for years in the right-wing-controlled Congress, is called the Fair Minimum Wage Act.
1:06.9	It provides for three hikes, from the present $5.15 to $5.85, 60 days after enactment,
1:15.9	$2.65, one year later, which would be in 2008, and then $2.75 a year after that, in 2009.
1:28.9	Unless the GOP leadership decides to beat a tactical retreat on this issue, there will be a battle royale in Congress.
1:37.9	Let's go through this step-by-step.
1:40.9	My sources are the Economic Policy Institute, the New York Times, FairEconomy.org, CommonDreams.org,
1:49.9	The Maclatchy Tribune News Service, Newsweek Magazine, the Miller Center at the University of Virginia,
1:54.9	BarcaWatch.com, a column by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney in the Chicago Tribune,
2:00.9	the Library of Congress website, and the Vatican website.
2:04.9	To start off with, you should be aware of how long overdue this minimum wage increases.
2:11.9	At the beginning of this month, a record was set for the longest period of time ever without a raise in the minimum wage,
2:19.9	since the minimum wage was first established in 1938.
2:23.9	It's been over nine years and three months since the minimum wage was increased.
2:29.9	Imagine if you hadn't gotten a raise in nine years.
2:33.9	Worse than that, the fact is, right-wingers don't even want a minimum wage at all.
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