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Is it time for a $33 minimum wage?
No matter how you calculate it, minimum wage has flat-lined over the past 50 years. That's the finding in a 2012 study from the Center for Economic Policy Research. The study reads, “By all of the most commonly used benchmarks – inflation, average wages, and productivity – the minimum wage is now far below its historical level.” If wages had kept up with productivity gains since 1968, it would be nearly $22 dollars an hour.
Senator Elizabeth Warren cited the study in a Senate Committee Hearing last week, calling for the national minimum wage to be tripled. While questioning University of Massachusetts Amerherst Professor, Dr. Arindrajit Dube, who has studied the economic impact of minimum wage, Warren said, “with a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, what happened to the other $14.75? It sure didn't go to the worker.”
Dube said if wages had kept pace with income going to the top 1%, today it would stand at $33 an hour. Productivity gains show Americans are working harder than ever, and profits have skyrocketed over the last half century. It's time businesses in our nation start rewarding that hard work, and start paying workers a living wage.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Iraq 10 years later...time for amends and accountability (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Iraq 10 years later...time for amends and accountability- Raed Jarrar, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee 
Plus, The real story behind the CPAC race riot- Kim Brown, The Kim Brown Show
Daily Take: ALEC is now deciding what you eat...
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Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Phoenix...in the cross hairs of climate change- William DeBuys, "A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest".
Hour Two: Supreme Court hearing on voting rights- Wendy Weiser, Brennan Center for Justice
Plus, latest on the effort to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio- Randy Parraz, Citizens for a Better Arizona
Hour Three: Cyprus...on the verge of economic meltdown?- Lynn Parramore, Alternet
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Who will be the first state to prosecute for war crimes
Hour Two: The coming economic crash...- Dr. Ravi Batra, Professor of Economics-Southern Methodist University / "International bestselling author" of numerous books including, "The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos" and "Greenspan's Fraud"
Hour Three: Progressive budget battle coming...- Tim Carpenter, Progressive Democrats of America
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Which came first...the car or the bicycle and why can't they co-exist peacefully in our nation's cities? We'll take a closer look at both sides of the "war on cars" going on in Seattle, WA...
Plus, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Will the GOP's "autopsy" report push the party in a new direction?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
GOP uses science to find white bigots...how about climate change?
Is Westboro Baptist Fred Phelps Gay? A survivor speaks out...
Crazy Alert! Next trend in organic food? Gourmet Roadkill? Yum!
CPAC's Race Panel "Gone Wild" Attendee says GOP needs more WHITES!
The Good, The Bad, and the Very, Very Junkettaceously Ugly
Has the Obama has beat the GOP or joined them in the debt game?
Could tiny Cyprus take down the world?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 3/18/13: GOP: The Party of "Stuffy Old (White) Men"
Thom talks with Progressive Richard Eskow on the absurdity of what's being discussed in Cyprus to bailout the banks, with columnist David Sirota on Rep. Boehner's recent reversal on America's debt "crisis" and with a former Westboro Baptist Church member on the rumors that Church Pastor Fred Phelps may be gay. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses the GOP's new report showing that people view the party as "scary," "narrow-minded," "out of touch" and full of "stuffy old men."
Thom Hartmann on The News: March 18, 2013
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