The American economy is driven and maintained by the exceptionalism of the women and men who make up our workforce; we must do everything we can to protect them.
Capital structure isn't an eyeshade economic thing: It's about your ability to protect your workforce and your service levels.
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and that the possible good to be achieved by such a law can exceed the possible harm only in proportion as its aims are mode.
Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.
I will always stand up and fight for you and fight for your jobs and fight for your families.
Whether it's dangerous materials being smuggled across the border, terrorists entering on visas or Americans losing their jobs to foreign workers, these are the problems we must now focus on fixing.
My goal is not to eliminate jobs but to secure jobs by increasing production volume.