Farmers and laborers, especially, clamored for the return of coinage in both gold and silver, believing the increased money supply would restore wages and property values.
Farmers and laborers, especially, clamored for the return of coinage in both metals, believing the increased money supply would restore wages and property values.
Farmers and laborers, especially, clamored for the return of coinage in both metals, believing the increased money supply would restore wages and property values, and the divide between pro- and anti-silver forces grew in the decades to come.
Moderate inflation rates can restore wage flexibility by eroding the real purchasing power of a given wage rate.
Putnam admits a few times that restoring working-class wages is "as close to a magic bullet as I can imagine".
In pushing for a threshold of $69,000, Hanauer argued that restoring overtime pay is key to restoring middle-class wages.
Restoring the minimum wage to near its 1968 level and then indexing it to inflation, as The Fair Minimum Wage Act of Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif) proposes, would greatly increase the quality of women's lives now, as well as years down the road when they decide to retire.
PAUL KRUGMAN points us to Nouriel Roubini who argues that the history of internal devaluations that is, restoring competitiveness through wage declines rather than exchange rate shifts is mostly a history of failure.
Park Place agreed to give the attendants back pay and restore their seniority, wages, shift assignments and benefits.
Van Ostern: Supports raising federal minimum wage and also restoring NH's state minimum wage law.
