At a minimum, human decency should have led Sarah Palin to express regret for the dog whistle she directed against Gabrielle Giffords, among others.
Previously, Wisconsin law stated that employee pay "shall be not less than a living wage," defined as "adequate to permit any employee to maintain herself or himself in minimum comfort, decency, physical and moral well-being".
The complaint cited state laws that say any wage paid by a Wisconsin employer must be a living wage that allows the employee to maintain their welfare, and that such a wage must "be adequate to permit any employee to maintain herself or himself in minimum comfort, decency, physical and moral well-being".
Only 15% of houses in the social sector fail to meet the minimum standards for decency.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation's latest report finds 40% of families with children living below a minimum threshold of decency.
Use trade sanctions as a punishment for countries that ignore minimum standards of decency, the argument goes, and they will come to their senses.
They "fall below minimum standards of decency owed by a civilized society to those who it has incarcerated," Judge Gilbert S. Merritt wrote for the three-judge Sixth Circuit panel.
It should use the influence it has in ASEAN both to promote these virtues, and to turn it into a club that enforces some minimum standards of decency on its members.
Two lower federal courts had declared the rules unconstitutional -- "below minimum standards of decency owed by a civilized society to those who it has incarcerated," as the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit put it.
In another brief, Thomas R. Pickering, a career diplomat, said: "Executing juvenile offenders violates minimum standards of decency now adopted by nearly every other nation in the world, including even autocratic regimes with poor human rights records.
