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redruddyred's Journaloped: minimum wages were first designed to keep women and minorities out of jobs
Progressive labor activists took a very different view 100 years ago, when 15 states established America's first minimum wages. Labor reformers then believed that a legal minimum would hand a raise to deserving white Anglo-Saxon men, and a pink slip to their undeserving competitors: racially undesirable immigrants, the mentally and physically disabled, and women. The original progressives hailed minimum-wage-caused job losses among these groups as a positive benefit to the U.S. economy and to Anglo-Saxon racial integrity.
In 1910, 22% of the U.S. workforce was foreign-born. A Who's Who of American economic reform warned that immigration was leading to race suicide, what President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 called the greatest problem of civilization. This race suicide theory claimed that because non-Anglo-Saxon immigrants had low living standards, their competition in the labor market undercut the wages of the American workingman. The key assumption was that Anglo-Saxon natives were more productive, but that immigrants worked cheap. As Stanford sociologist and avowed nativist Edward A. Ross put it, the coolie, though he cannot outdo the American, can underlive him. Woodrow Wilson, echoing many others, said that Chinese immigrants could live upon a handful of rice for a pittance. Similar charges were made against Jews and Catholics arriving from southern and eastern Europe.
The American-born worker, who refused to lower his family's living standard to the immigrant's level, opted instead to have fewer children. Thus, concluded the theory, the inferior races would outbreed and displace their white Anglo-Saxon betters.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0405-leonard-minimum-wage-20160405-story.html
'bernie bro' has misandrist connotations
women have faced centuries of oppression, sure, but if you're going to call us 'sexists' at the drop of a hat, it's a cinch that you're not too concerned with women's rights.
she remarks wistfully as the clinton campaign destroys her credibility as a feminist
what's going on with all these voting purges in upcoming primary states?
the hartmann program was going on and on last week about how people have been taken off the voter rolls. i had problems, now a friend of mine is having problems. is this a trend?
NY Times: To make real change, Bernie Sanders needs his young revolutionaries to run for Congress.
Asked in Wednesdays debate how he would address climate change, given opposition by Republicans in Congress, he answered: Im the only candidate who says no president, not Bernie Sanders, can do it all. You know what we need? We need a political revolution in this country.
But, as he seemed to acknowledge, revolutions are typically bottom-up, not top-down, events. Mr. Sanderss campaign is powered by $30 contributions and an army of young volunteers, but there are not enough elected office holders in Congress or in statehouses to carry out his revolution through new laws or policies. And thats the big difference between running an inspiring campaign and actually governing.
read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/opinion/sunday/the-bernie-sanders-revolution.html?emc=eta1
srs
workers' rights are women's rights. raising the minimum wage is overwhelmingly a women's issue (although I guess minorities can lay claim as well).
i'm so pissed that letting mr sanders finish his effing sentence is considered "sexist". hillary hates me. she will not protect my social security and will not fight for me to get a decent paying job. what has she ever done to fight for the rights of women. her husband is a freaking sexual harrasser and all accounts point to the fact that she helped cover up his worst behavior. this primary is female class warfare: get behind our corporatist candidate, because women. lol no!
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