[news] New York City: Lower Wages, Less Welfare

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

"Work-at-any-wage" has become such an idee fixe that even advocates for the poor are reluctant to fight for welfare. Education, training and career ladders are now widely seen as the solution to poverty. But in New York City, which has close to 800,000 workers whose highest educational attainment is high school, this is a diversion and not a serious proposal for how to raise wages...Rather than believing that every New Yorker should work it would be better if the mayor believed that every New Yorker who works should earn a living wage.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/5873