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It is no longer an unwritten law of american capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
-Christopher Lasch
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It Is No Longer An Unwritten Law

Christopher Lasch
It is no longer an unwritten law of american capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
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If a market exists for low-paid work, then we should think about how we can make this type of work more attractive by providing government assistance. of course, the wage-earner must be able to live off of his wages. we will not allow poverty wages or dumping wages. but the wage earner can receive a combined wage that includes both his actual wages and a government subsidy.
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In my inaugural i laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. it seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. by "business" i mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers i mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages i mean more than a bare subsistence level - i mean the wages of decent living.
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