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...party fund. The Finance Committee, which oversees the party fund, is handing out $1700 of student money each weekend, and it must step up and ensure that all the money it distributes does indeed fund parties. To that end, grant recipients should be required to show, at the minimum, reasonable receipts before being reimbursed. But receipts can be faked. The UC also needs to verify that all funded parties are actually taking place. A member of the UC should stop by each host suite during its event and check that it is a legitimate open party. Between the 35-plus...
...Montana, where a Mason-Dixon poll shows 71% support for a $1 minimum wage hike, an opposition group recently tried to challenge the signatures gathered by the initiative supporters. But last week a judge ruled that the challenge had been filed too late. In Colorado, opponents of the wage initiative, dubbed Amendment 42, say that raising entry-level pay in the state to $6.85 would hinder job growth. They ran a TV ad showing Moses pleading with God for divine intervention to stop the wage initiative. "We can't let the people make this mistake," God responds. "Go. Spread...
...Opponents of minimum wage hikes in all six states have consistently argued that raising minimum wages burdens employers with higher labor costs, leading to job cuts. A September paper by David Macpherson of Florida State University advanced that claim, arguing that a wage hike in Arizona could cause 4,627 workers to lose their jobs. But the paper relies on assumptions that many economists consider outdated and inaccurate. Recent studies have shown little evidence of such job losses in states that have raised their minimum wage in recent years. A letter signed by 650 U.S. economists, including five past presidents...
...more than 1.5 million workers will get a raise, according to an EPI estimate, including many families living below the poverty line. For those scrambling to defeat the popular state measures, though, the fight carries on. Regardless of how the measures fare on Tuesday, a battle over the national minimum wage may soon follow in Congress...
...parties Get Out The Vote operations, with the G.O.P. pouring volunteers into neighborhoods and drawing on the party's vaunted voter list, while the Dems scramble to mobilize urban voters in St. Louis and Kansas City. Democrats have to hope that two ballot initiatives - one for increasing the minimum wage, and another supporting stem cell research - will make up for the admitted advantage Republicans hold in targeting likely voters. Virtually every poll for the last six months has put the race in a dead heat, and in 2002, Talent won by all of 21,000 votes, so the final push...