Poverty. Starvation. Oil dependency. AIDS. Inequality. Climate change. Energy crisis. The list of global problems can go on and on, with little hope of permanent solutions. What if we were able to take one giant step towards solving all these issues?
“Children are our future,” we’ve heard again and again. However, how are we treating those who work closely with, and in some cases, practically raise “our future?” Childcare workers are amongst the least paid in America, and have one of the most important jobs. Teachers, sadly, are not far behind.
Generally when people think about raising the minimum wage they think about the amount of money more that there will be had and the benefit there will be to the poor people. Well unfortunately - as pointed out by Art Carden (Economics professor at Rhodes College) - almost every time the government enacts an economic policy, that policy actually hurts the people it was meant to help.
