AFL-CIO restructuring

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 6 15:18:41 PDT 1999


Brad De Long wrote:


>>JW Mason wrote:
>>
>>>Throw in the family leave act and the minimum wage hike
>>
>>I thought the Dems did nothing about the minimum wage when they
>>controlled Congress - not even a hearing on the topic. Am I
>>remembering wrong? The increase took effect almost two years after
>>the Republican sweep in '94.
>>
>>Doug
>
>We decided to do a bigger EITC expansion in 1993 instead...

Oh, so the government could subsidize employers rather than having them pay up?

Doug



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