Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce Business Journal Q1 2014 | Page 10
We need to address those workers
who have few, if any, of the skills they
need to compete for a better job and
command higher wages. We need
to start thinking in terms of skills,
the kinds of skills that will help students support themselves and their
families in the future, empower our
current workforce to pursue higher
paying jobs, and help those without
a job become self-sustaining.
Cal Thomas wrote in a recent opinion column that proponents of “income equality” and minimum wage
“want us to accept a false premise:
that if I earn more money than you, I
‘owe’ you some of my money to make
things ‘fair’. This might be true if the
amount of money available were
fixed, but it is not.” He wrote that the
concern for people on the lower end
of the wage
scale should
not be how
much others
make, but how
much people
can make if
they
adopt
the ideas and
practices
of
SENATOR MIKE ENZI
people
who
are successful.
the necessity and costs of education and job-training, and the desire to achieve an
appropriate
balance between work
and family life. But
higher prices and
less jobs caused
by another federally
mandated minimum
wage increase is
not what Wyoming
and the rest of the
country needs.
“AS CONGRESS
MOVES FORWARD
IT WILL NEED TO
CONFRONT A
RANGE OF
ISSUES...”-
As Congress moves forward it will
need to confront a range of issues
facing working families, including
the rising cost of health insurance,
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