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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno and his primary opponents all oppose raising the minimum wage. Both Moreno and Matt Dolan believe the minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage. Says who?
Here’s what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had to say about wages over 90 years ago:
“It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages ...
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Columbus suffers from a lack of housing, and especially affordable housing, a problem that hits low income neighborhoods the hardest. Those same neighborhoods also lack resources–think
libraries, YMCAs and community centers. How do we engage the residents of those communities to consolidate their voices to gain access to more resources, and how we ...
Mayor Andrew J. Ginther wants to fix our affordable housing problem – 54,000 central Ohio households spend more than half their income on housing – which disproportionately affects minorities.
Median household income for Black households in Columbus is $35,569, which is 40% less than that of white households, and nearly 40% of Black workers make just $15,000 or less a year, compared to 14% for white workers.
This problem didn’t happen by ...
Continue Reading →The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light a problem we refuse to resolve—too many Americans being paid too low a wage—and illustrates a lack of concern for Americans at the bottom of the economic ladder.
Let’s look at the numbers. More than 53 million people—44% of all workers aged 18-64—earn median hourly wages of $10.22 and median annual earnings of $17,950, according to research from Brookings. Nearly two-thirds of these people are in their prime working years of 25-54, and ...
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Sometimes we hear things that make us uncomfortable, ideas that challenge a core belief. Almost by reflex, we reject such ideas if for no other reason few of us readily accept change.
We have concluded for generations that capitalism is king, that it’s the best economic system on the planet. Author Richard Rohr questions whether capitalism has negatively affected our view of the world and how we should treat one another. Sure, capitalism works well for most of us, but ...
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