Scott Walker: The Inartful Dodger (VIDEO)

On Wednesday Gov. Scott Walker attended the annual Governor’s Small Business Summit in Eau Claire. During the event, Blogging Blue contributor Steve Carlson, who is a steering committee member of 15 NOW Northwest Wisconsin, asked Gov. Walker about living wages. Predictably, Gov. Walker refused to answer Steve’s questions about living…

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Economic Trend Supports Raising the Minimum Wage

The news today is that consumer spending rose in August and it was driven by increases in income and wages. Ergo: continued economic recovery could be driven my raising the minimum wage. Consumer spending in August rose 0.5 percent from the previous month after showing no gain in July, the…

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Chris Abele vetoes Milwaukee County living wage ordinance

This is disappointing. Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele on Wednesday made good on his threat to veto a “living wage” ordinance requiring an $11.32 minimum hourly pay for county workers and employees of certain county contractors. Abele urged the County Board to sustain the veto, noting a warning from the…

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Chris Taylor: “Republicans should spend less time attacking communities they know little about, and more time creating policies that will put more Wisconsinites back to work.”

From my email inbox comes a presser from Democratic State Rep. Chris Taylor. Today, Republicans in the Assembly Labor Committee passed Assembly Bill 750, which would prohibit the City of Madison and Dane County’s 15-year-old living wage ordinances. As a member of the committee, Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison) joined all…

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Milwaukee’s living wage: a tale of two Chrises

This is just bad, bad, bad. The “living wage” ordinance backed by the Milwaukee County Board last week — and others like it — would be barred under legislation up for a hearing Wednesday at the Capitol. The proposed state measure prohibits local governments from enacting or enforcing a minimum…

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Assembly Democratic Leader Barca announces living wage bill for contract state employees

Yesterday Assembly Democratic Leader Peter Barca announced new legislation that would set a living wage that is at least the federal poverty level of a three-person household or the same amount as a state employee performing the same duties for the hundreds of individuals working under state contracts in Wisconsin….

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Supervisor Bowen To Hold News Conference On Living Wage

From Facebook: Supervisor David Bowen, with other members of the County Board and community, will hold a news conference on living wage Monday, December 16, at 9:30 a.m. in the rotunda of the Milwaukee County Courthouse. Supervisor Bowen has introduced a living wage resolution that would impact employees of companies…

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You and Charles Koch are homies

Charles Koch is worth a reported 43 billion dollars, give or take a few bucks, ( or a few hundred million bucks ). I don’t have the exact figures, but that has to put him somewhere in the richest .0001 % of Americans. Or the richest .00001%. And he wants you…

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Costco CEO support living wages, good benefits for employees as a good business practice

This is one CEO who gets it… Here’s what Costco CEO Craig Jelinek said about paying employees a living wage. “At Costco, we know that paying employees good wages makes good sense for business,” Jelinek said in a statement. “We pay a starting hourly wage of $11.50 in all states…

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