Arlen Specter PA once noted, "history clearly demonstrates that raising the minimum wage has no adverse impact on jobs. In Oregon, for instance, the state raised its minimum wage in , and the average earnings of newly-employed welfare recipients climbed by 9 percent, while the percentage of welfare recipients who found a job actually rose. Stossel's latest pathological lie followed one from a few weeks ago when he used ABC's Good Morning America to claim that it is a "myth" that "women earn less" than men for "doing the same work.
Again, Stossel used ABC's airwaves to peddle a pathological lie. This all may seem surprising. After all, how could one of the major networks employ a person with such disdain for the truth and then call him a "journalist? For instance, Stossel has tried to deny the scientific consensus surrounding global warming , despite peer-reviewed scientific papers on global warming published between and all concluding that global warming is real, and human-caused.
Similarly, as I note in my book, Stossel has self-righteously used the airwaves to rail against people who file lawsuits. He is 17, a senior in a public high school in South Carolina, and can barely read even the simplest material. Stossel: You know there is a whole world that can open up to you, if you are able to read. Dorian: Yeah, I know that.
Stossel: Did they try to teach you to read? Dorian: From time to time. Stossel: Well, what did they do? Dorian: They just tell you to read by yourself. Stossel: But they kept moving you ahead in class? Dorian: Yes, sir. Send by email. Tell my friends. Choose what to email Which of your works would you like to tell your friends about? Fan art. Send your email To. Add a personal note. Send this message. Delete My Account. We hate to see you go! Please note as per our terms and conditions, you agreed that all materials submitted become the property of Teen Ink.
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They do this by choice. People have decided they want to maintain a very high income lifestyle on two incomes to have all the things to keep up with the Joneses," Moore said. I guess politicians are no different than the rest of us.
Politicians want federal money for nice things like museums and senior centers and highways in their states. We want more money too, because we think it'll buy us things that make us happy. But that's myth No. We get a lot of messages from television and movies telling us that more money will make us happy. Lottery winners have press conferences, reality shows have pretty women lining up to marry rich guys. Milionaire hip-hop promoter Russell Simmons told me wealth didn't make him or his friends happy either.
He said he suddenly realized money wouldn't buy happiness when he was at the peak of his career. I realized, 'OK, I got it, God. I got it. This will not work. It is not gonna make me happy. Research suggests that Reverend Run and Russell Simmons are right. A survey of 49 of the Forbes richest found that they weren't any happier than the rest of us. Happiness researchers agree with Simmons and Chatsky: Purposeful work is what makes people happy.
And finding religion. And family. Republicans always trot out the slogan that they oppose big government and want to shrink the federal payroll. President Bush tells us that "big government is not the answer. But for more than 75 years, no Republican administration has cut the size of government. Since George W. Bush became president, government spending has risen nearly 25 percent. And the spending increase isn't just tied to the war on terrorism. The Office of Management and Budget says spending at the Environmental Protection Agency is up 12 percent, it's up 14 percent at the Agriculture Department, 30 percent at the Department of the Interior, 64 percent at the Department of Labor, and 70 percent at the Department of Education.
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