Morning's Minion on Living Wage | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Quoting John Medaille is always good in talking about this topic, as he and I used to speak about how to bring employee-ownership into being - which is necessary to move toward a living wage. Employee-owned firms would be more likely to provide both cooperative work and cooperative consumption - and would have an interest in living wages because of that.
The debate on whether the employer or society should fund the living wage is interesting - and the way around it is to consolidate help for families into a large child tax credit as an offset to a consumption tax paid by employers - with the credit paid with wages rather than as part of an end of the year tax refund.
Finally, while the Church speaks boldly on these issues, it must also make sure that it pays such a wage to all of its employees. Indeed, if workers at parishes, Catholic Charities and Catholic Hospitals and schools all were given a $12,000 wage increase for every new child, there would have been no controversy on the availability of birth control - as no one would use it unless there was a health reason to do so (and most often a non-reproductive one).
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