If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be $24 an hour

Re:If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wag... by rayiner on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:05PM (#24733852)

If you can find an NYT article in the last two years using AEI as the source of a story I’ll buy you a nice bottle of whiskey. The media will systematically ignore sources like AEI, that use actual numbers, in favor of soundbites like the one in this Common Dreams article.

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Re:If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wag... by pydry on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:14PM (#24734513)

the media ignores them does it? https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/05/26/capitalism-coronavirus...

i would be mildly surprised if "liberal" CNBC had even one person from common dreams on.

i'm not gonna dig through the new york times for examples where they cited somebody from AEI coz it's paywalled but it wouldn't surprise me if they, like CNBC do, routinely.

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Re:If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wag... by rayiner on Friday October 09, 2020 @09:53PM (#24736170)

CNBC isn’t NBC, and it’s not a general-interest media outlet. It’s a specialized outlet for financial and business people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNBC

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