Dolan, Catholic bishops back minimum wage hike
Dolan, Catholic bishops back minimum wage hike Cardinal Timothy Dolan and the state’s Catholic bishops issued a statement today in support of a “modest increase” in New York’s minimum wage, asking …More
Dolan, Catholic bishops back minimum wage hike
Cardinal Timothy Dolan and the state’s Catholic bishops issued a statement today in support of a “modest increase” in New York’s minimum wage, asking lawmakers to address the “grave problems facing the lowest wage earners in our state.”
The one-page statement paints the issue as “one of fairness and justice,” saying that the current rate of $7.25 is hurting the working poor in the midst of a recession.
Dolan is the archbishop of the New York state archdiocese.
“We don’t pretend to be economists, but we are pastors, and we do oversee the largest nongovernmental network of health, education and charitable ministries in the state,” reads the statement. “What we can tell you from first-hand experience is that it is becoming increasingly difficult for the working poor of our state to make ends.
2012-05-03 NYS Bishops Statement on Minimum Wage
Cardinal Timothy Dolan and the state’s Catholic bishops issued a statement today in support of a “modest increase” in New York’s minimum wage, asking lawmakers to address the “grave problems facing the lowest wage earners in our state.”
The one-page statement paints the issue as “one of fairness and justice,” saying that the current rate of $7.25 is hurting the working poor in the midst of a recession.
Dolan is the archbishop of the New York state archdiocese.
“We don’t pretend to be economists, but we are pastors, and we do oversee the largest nongovernmental network of health, education and charitable ministries in the state,” reads the statement. “What we can tell you from first-hand experience is that it is becoming increasingly difficult for the working poor of our state to make ends.
2012-05-03 NYS Bishops Statement on Minimum Wage
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This guy needs to go on a diet! Why are so many cardinals overweight. Do they not have time to do some sit-ups? 
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Milton Friedman on the Minimum Wage
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As an economics professor, I disagree with the whole thing. Minimum wage laws cause unemployment and cause the folks affected by this to go work in the underground economy. I love Cardinal Dolan, but our clerics know no more about economics since their Statement on the Economy years ago demonstrated that fact.
