{"id":1992,"date":"2006-06-21T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/looking_out_for_tennessee_work\/"},"modified":"2006-06-21T14:59:16","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T18:59:16","slug":"looking_out_for_tennessee_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/06\/looking_out_for_tennessee_work\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Out For Tennessee Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Alexander and Frist vote against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&amp;session=2&amp;vote=00179\">increasing the Federal minimum wage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The minimum wage has not been adjusted for inflation in nine years.&nbsp; During that period, Members of Congress have received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.congresslink.org\/print_basics_pay.htm\">seven pay raises<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/goofyblog.net\/congressional-pay-vs-federal-minimum-wage\/\">this calculation<\/a>, the Congressional pay-to-minimum-wage ratio (15.7 &#8211; 1) has reached a level achieved only once (1994) during the past 60 years.&nbsp; I guess Senators Alexander and Frist are shooting for the record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/06\/looking_out_for_tennessee_work\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Looking Out For Tennessee Workers\"><p>Senators Alexander and Frist vote against increasing the Federal minimum wage. The minimum wage has not been adjusted for inflation in nine years.&nbsp; During that period, Members of Congress have received seven pay raises. According to this calculation, the Congressional pay-to-minimum-wage ratio (15.7 &#8211; 1) has reached a level achieved only once (1994) during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}