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CNN, 1/8/12A few miles north of the Georgia Avenue Food Cooperative, Andono's husband, Alan, 47, serves steaks to some of the targets of the Occupy movement: the 1% of Americans who have enjoyed nearly 60% of all gains in income over the last three decades
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In DC the 1% are eating at The Inn at LIttle Washington, Citronelle or Komi. You won't find $11/hr line cooks there, I can tell you.
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His job grilling $44 steaks simply illustrates the fallacy of the "job creators" myth.
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If this country is going to dispense with government aid to the poor, then a living wage is going to have to be put in place that enables most people to survive. Otherwise, crime is going to go through the roof.
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http://www.payscale.com/research/AU/Job=Cook,_Restaurant/Hourly_Rate
That site shows hourly pay of between AU$13.82 and AU$21.51.
We don't customarily tip because the wait staff are also paid a living wage.
I wonder... abandon tipping in favour of mandating that all the restaurant staff get a living wage and... what? Food is a little more expensive, but that is offset at least a little by customers not having to tip. And any shortfall would be paid for by the customers living in an economy where people have actual disposable income, so buy more stuff, so provide more jobs, so ... oh wait. I am describing "trickle up" economics, now, aren't I?
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A living wage just changes the wage floor and eventually resettles to where it's "barely" enough.
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How much that would be would depend on what area he was living and working.
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