I asked others in the field of demographics on my last post on the percentage of veterans being a negative predictor of the amount of living wage enacted in the 38 cities/counties that have passed living wage ordinances. One expert in the field suggested one variable that I hadn’t considered. Chris Briem over at theContinue reading “Veterans, The Elderly, and Living Wage Cities/Counties”
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Veterans, the Living Wage, and the McNamara Fallacy
In the first post for the eighth year of the blog I was going to reflect on the Ken Burns film about Vietnam. My first impression was how little things have changed since then with all of the protests. The second thing that jumped out at me was President Johnson’s defense secretary’s obsession with collectingContinue reading “Veterans, the Living Wage, and the McNamara Fallacy”
What do Living Wage Cities Have in Common?
On Saturday, August 12, the there is a profile of me in the local Johnstown, PA newspaper (the Tribune Democrat) on my campaign for city council. I was hoping to push for a living wage ordinance for the city but the State of Pennsylvania, along with 24 other states, has a law preventing the cityContinue reading “What do Living Wage Cities Have in Common?”