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  1. Feb 2016
    1. Multiple studies have demonstrated little to no relationship between a higher minimum wage and reductions in poverty," the institute says, in a policy brief.

      The wealthy will always find a way to stay in power at the expense of the poor.

    2. Supporters of increasing the minimum wage also contend that such a move would act as economic stimulus. When low-income households earn more money, they are likely to spend it, pouring more dollars into the economy, the argument goes. 

      This is an optimistic thought, but the result would likely be a significant job loss as companies decrease the number of employees in order to counteract the increased amount of money they have to spend on them, and this would be negative for the economy.

    1. This August, workers protested at nearly 1,000 fast-food restaurants in more than 50 cities, demanding $15 per hour

      If the minimum wage were raised to be this high, then CEO's of big companies would likely counteract the improvement by cutting back on jobs.

    2. over the past 40 years, the purchasing power of the minimum wage has fallen sharply. If Congress had kept the minimum wage in pace with inflation over this period, it would today be $10.74. But, in fact, it is $7.25 -- about two-thirds of its previous purchasing power.

      This is compelling factual evidence to support the theory that not only is the minimum wage not enough, but that it has actually declined from its previous state in which it was enough.

  2. Jan 2016
    1. They will be the James Merediths, with the noble sense of purpose that enables them to face jeering and hostile mobs, and with the agonizing loneliness that characterizes the life of the pioneer. They will be old, oppressed, battered Negro women, symbolized in a seventy two year old woman in Montgomery, Alabama, who rose up with a sense of dignity and with her people decided not to ride segregated buses, and who responded with ungrammatical profundity to one who inquired about her weariness: "My feets is tired, but my soul is at rest." They will be the young high school and college students, the young ministers of the gospel and a host of their elders, courageously and nonviolently sitting in at lunch counters and willingly going to jail for conscience' sake

      provides examples, illustration

    2. I wish you had commended the Negro sit inners and demonstrators of Birmingham for their sublime courage, their willingness to suffer and their amazing discipline in the midst of great provocation

      pathos, sympathy for black nonviolent protesters

    3. they have conducted themselves rather "nonviolently" in public. But for what purpose? To preserve the evil system of segregation

      similar to dead man walking, "being nice" is not enough in an unjust system

    4. If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century

      call to action, pathos appeal

    5. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love

      ethos, establishes credibility

    6. Whenever the early Christians entered a town, the people in power became disturbed and immediately sought to convict the Christians for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators."'

      allusion towards early christians