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Trump seems more and more like Nixon.

 

He's got a lot of Agnew in him, too. Oily and greasy and shifty as hell.

 

Wouldn't it be rich if the memo thing only led to additional inquiry by Mueller? Who knew what when? Were there discussions about the potential impact of releasing the memo? Was there discussion about how it would help "undermine" the investigation? I mean, Starr was investigating a real estate deal and ended up finding a 22-year old intern who was six when the point of the initial inquiry happened.

 

Yeah but at this point, what difference does it make?

 

Wages are going up under Trump!

 

More bad news, that will upset democrats.

 

Interesting correlation/causation problem there. Especially as regards rising wages.

Didn't a lot of the new state minimum wage laws go in to effect on January 1?

Why yes. Yes they did.

Minimum Wage Increases for 18 States in 2018

https://www.wagehourblog.com/2017/1...reases-will-go-into-effect-on-january-1-2018/

 

There was nothing at all wrong with the story. My problem was solely the headline, which I suspect is what attracted Inky to it in the first place.

Sadly, among our staff, despite training that has told them over and over that "online heads are different than print heads; here's why!", they still have an infuriating habit of just noting out words in the online head (written by someone else) until it fits the print spec.

We could have two headlines, side-by-side, saying "Five things we learned from State U. win" and "Five things we learned from Podunk U. loss". Those are fucking click-bait online heads, dammit. PICK SOMETHING that was learned and make that your head. That's why they call it "work."

Gotta love Alaska and its hefty $0.04 increase. That's $1.60 a week for those keeping score at home.

And for some perspective: Those increases affect 4.5 million workers (out of 117 million full-time and 27 million part time). So I don't think their effect in the overall "how are wages doing?" question is very pronounced. But every little bit helps, I guess.

 

I was attracted to it because I'd seen it previously in the TL of a neighbor who gained citizenship after serving (and being wounded by an IED) in Iraq. He's pretty pissed about it.

 

I think you’re overlooking how relatively few people make the minimum wage. Now before you go trotting out some “You don’t think X million is substantial?” non sequitur that is your stock-in-trade, note that I used the word “relatively”. If average wages are going up, it’s likely because labor markets are tightening — which they are — and not because of the minimum wage.

 

U.S. private payrolls rise strongly, wage growth picking up


“Today’s report is quite consistent with our view of gradually firming wage growth, which we expect to reach a sustainable pace around 2.5-3.0 percent in 2018,” said Gregory Daco, chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics in New York.

“We expect one-time bonuses and minimum wage increases to provide a tailwind to the ECI to start the year.”

 

I'll get a raise in August.

If I'm still employed in August.