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The Minimum Wage and Inflation

Arthur MacEwan Dollars & Sense
Dr, Dollar addresses a popular myth about minimum wage increases, and explains why inflation isn't as bad as some might think.

Gaza: The Jewish Right and the Muslim Right

Meredith Tax 50.50
The war in Gaza has strengthened both the Muslim Right and the Jewish Right; while the results have been disastrous for the people of Gaza, they aren't good for the people of Israel either. Meredith Tax asks, what does this mean for the two state solution?

Mel Packer: Coal Miners Are Mad…and Scared. And they have a right to be.

Mel Packer Vox Populi
Why are union miners falling for the company line that there’s a “war on coal” when the coal and gas companies are really making a war on ALL of us, on our planet, on our children’s futures and certainly on those very miners who are marching on behalf of the coal companies?

Here Are Some Great Alternatives to Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novel Classics

Crawford Kilian Alternet
For sheer surrealism, Miéville's The City and the City induces very strange feelings: it's a detective noir set in two eastern European cities that occupy the same space but refuse to accept each other's existence. Wallander would be on the next flight home to Sweden. Stross and Miéville aren't the only ones worth reading. Some remarkable writers are out there, available both in ebooks and in hard copy.

Hiring Picks Up, But Wages Not Keeping Pace

Ylan Q. Mui The Washington Post
The lack of wage growth is one reason why many consumers feel that the broader economic recovery hasn’t reached their wallets. The problem has divided academics and fueled political debate on Capitol Hill and across the country, turning an increase in the minimum wage, for example, into a central issue in the midterm elections.