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I'm certainly not an economist, although I have taken 4 economics classes as part of an Accounting undergraduate degree and have done well on a couple of MBA finance classes. Much of my passion for this topic comes from living in Illinois and seeing first hand(around 2009) that it was next to impossible for college graduates to get jobs at places like McDonalds and Wal-Mart here.
Ludwig von Mises Institute is a facebook page that 75,121 people like. The Mises Institute works to advance the Austrian School of economics. It appears to me that one of the things the 'Austrian School' would support is lowering the minimum wage(which I think is kind of cool since I am half Austrian). (You may have trouble getting to this link if you got to this page by going to townoak.com/ideas/freezeminwage, if so cut and paste http://www.facebook.com/mises.institute to the address bar above)
Freeze Minimum Wage is a facebook page that 27 people like. This is a page I started since there is talk by the facebook admins that the facebook group format is being replaced by the facebook page format. Also, that facebook groups such as the 3 below may be going away particularly in cases like these where the is no admin or no active admin. (You may have trouble getting to this link if you got to this page by going to townoak.com/ideas/freezeminwage, if so cut and paste http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lower-Minimum-Wage/126024007506640 to the address bar above)
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| territory | minwage | rank | articles |
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| DC | 8.25 | 1 | |
| GU | 7.25 | 2 | |
| VI | 7.25 | 2 | |
| PR | 4.10 | 4 | |
| MP | 3.55 | 5 | 2008(02/28) Statement of Nikolao I. Pula, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Affairs |
| AS | 2.68-4.69 | 6 | 2010(10/01) 'Samoa News' article President Obama signs Minimum Wage delay into Law |
While twitter.com/townoak still has some general day to day stuff about me, I've started to focus more on lowering the minimum wage. Here are the 15 of the 219 tweets so far related to that topic. Colorado first state since 1938 to lower minimum wage: http://digg.com/d31CxTc?t 15 Dec 09 How about a jobs bill that doesn't cost the government a dime. If people want to work, give them the freedom to do so. 18 Mar 10 Even to the millions who would love to work for less then minimum wage, but we don't allow them to. Please lower the minimum wage. 18 Mar 10 Quinn blasts Brady for suggesting minimum wage cut - chicagotribune.com http://bit.ly/a9DSop 28 Jun 10 I support @bill_brady for Governor - Check out bradyforillinois.com for more info on the campaign. #imwithbill #ILgov 28 Jun 10 Just joined http://teapartypatriots.ning.com 17 Jul 10 Checking out Ed Stadick's Profile on Tea Party Patriots: http://ning.it/cHZ6Bo 25 Jul 10 we need to lower minimum wage in illinois 25 Jul 10 Why not lower the minimum wage? - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/12/why_not_lower_the_minimum_wage.html 5 Nov 10 Wage increase heads to court - South Sound - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington http://t.co/gXiyKeS via @AddThis 4 Dec 10 www.is.gd/hrHlU Along the Minimum-Wage Battle Front 5 Dec 10 1975 interview of Economics Nobel Prize winner 'Milton Friedman on Minimum Wage' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca8Z__o52sk 2 Jan 11 American Samoa: The real story 60 Minutes missed (SchiffReport) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LaPGIIAyk4 10 Feb 11 'The Job-Killing Impact of Minimum Wage Laws' video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMMN3UIQmEk 26 Mar 11 From more then a year back but still good. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/the-minimum-wage-and-teenage-jobs 13 May 11
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