Happy Labor Day, everyone! We shouldn’t forget about essential workers. A few months ago, I wrote a post about how we don’t pay essential workers enough. At the time, it was a big topic. Essential workers were some of the only folks who had to actually show up to a physical location (ie: not their…
In light of regions of the country becoming mini-nation-states including a pact of Midwestern States and in an effort to get some more data, I put together this map, which shows the jobs-housing mismatch for the five states that are definitely part of the midwest, the former Northwest Territories:
If they’re essential, shouldn’t they earn more? I went to the grocery store the other day to stock up. Trying to avoid social contact as much as possible, I went very early on Saturday morning, when normally the store would be empty. I was surprised to find that the store was packed with shoppers, some…
I’m suspicious of anyone who’s willing to do public service for well under the market value of their work. You should be too. I got into an argument last week on twitter (I know, I’m really doing this wrong) about how much we should pay public employees. I had read about Mount Vernon’s Assistant Law…
