Rep Trail,<br> <br> Roosevelt also lost with that platform too in 1912. <br> <br> I don't think you should waste time trying to raise the minimum wage, it isn't going to happen. You should instead spend time raising the limit amount to get food stamps, child support services, medical care, and low income housing.<br> <br> Did you know:<br> 1) A single adult in Idaho who makes $5.55/hr or more in Idaho and works 40 hours a week does not qualify for food stamps-they make too much.<br> <br> 2) A single mother with a child going to college to get a better job is disqualified from every new low income housing unit in northern Idaho. <br> <br> 3) A disabled individual who works more then 20 hours a week at $5.15/hr will lose their state assistance and medical.<br> <br> 4) A person on SSI gets only a check of $660 a month to pay for food, housing, clothing, OTC drugs, and all other personal expenses. <br> <br> 5) A person with no money but a $2000 car does not
qualify for financial assistance.<br> <br> 6) If a poor family tries to save money for a down payment on a mobile home they will lose their medical benefits before they afford to do so. <br> <br> 7) If a person does not spend all of their welfare check, their amount will be reduced. <br> <br> I think that most working poor, people making under $7 an hour, are only in a temporary position. The elderly, disabled, single parents, etc, are in a long-term or even permanent condition of poverty and hardship. Raising minimum wage helps college students and the few not capable of getting promotions and hanging onto a job. <br> <br> Relaxing the income requirements for getting food stamps, medical assistance, and housing would be a greater relief to all poor, not just those that can work 40+ hours a week. I also believe that adults that want to go to college to get out of poverty ought to be given that chance by not barring them from tolerable housing.
It is so contrary to logic, to makes laws preventing adults from getting an education to get out of poverty if they want to live in low income housing. Not to mention it seems oppressive and a violation of freedom of speech. <br> <br> Best,<br> <br> Donovan J Arnold<br> <br> <br><br><b><i>Tom Trail <ttrail@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <style type="text/css"><!-- blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 } --></style><title>Fwd: Re: request</title> <blockquote type="cite" cite="">Visionaries: There has been much debate over minimum and living wage issues</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>and these will be even more fully discussed in the campaign ahead. I did a</div> <div>bit of research on these issues, and it is interesting that the great progressive/Republican President Teddy Roosevelt called
for both a minimum</div> <div>wage and living wage in the Platform of the Progressive Party in 1912.</div> <div>Teddy has consistently been ranked among the top five outstanding U.S.</div> <div>Presidents by historians. Read on.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Rep. Tom Trail</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite=""> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite=""> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite=""><b>Platform of the Progressive Party</b><br> August 7, 1912<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite=""><b>Declaration of Principles of the Progressive Party</b><br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite=""><b>. . . . . .</b><br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite=""><b>Social and Industrial Strength</b><br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite="">The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We
pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for:--<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite="">Effective legislation looking to the prevention of industrial accidents, occupational diseases, overwork, involuntary unemployment, and other injurious effects incident to modern industry;<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite="">The fixing of minimum safety and health standards for the various occupations, and the exercise of the public authority of State and Nation, including the Federal control over inter-State commerce and the taxing power, to maintain such standards;<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite="">The prohibition of child labor;<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite="">Minimum wage standards for working women, to provide a living scale in all industrial occupations;<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite="">The prohibition of night work for women and the establishment of an eight hour day for
women and young persons;<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite="">One day's rest in seven for all wage-workers;<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite="">The abolition of the convict contract labor system; substituting a system of prison production for governmental consumption only; and the application of prisoners' earnings to the support of their dependent families;<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite="">Publicity as to wages, hours and conditions and labor; full reports upon industrial accidents and diseases, and the opening to public inspection of all tallies, weights, measures and check systems on labor products;<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite="">Standards of compensation for death by industrial accident and injury and trade diseases which will transfer the burden of lost earnings from the families of working people to the industry, and thus to the community;<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite"
cite="">The protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use;<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite="">The development of the creative labor power of America by lifting the last load of illiteracy from American youth and establishing continuation schools for industrial education under public control and encouraging agricultural education and demonstration in rural schools;<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite="">The establishment of industrial research laboratories to put the methods and discoveries of science at the service of American producers.<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite="">We favor the organization of the workers, men and women as a means of protecting their interests and of promoting their progress.<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite=""> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite"
cite="">Teddy Roosevelt</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite=""> </blockquote> <div><br> <br> </div> <div><br></div> <x-sigsep></x-sigsep><pre>-- <br></pre> <div>Dr. Tom Trail<br> International Trails<br> 1375 Mt. View Rd.<br> Moscow, Id. 83843<br> Tel: (208) 882-6077<br> Fax: (208) 882-0896<br> e mail ttrail@moscow.com</div> =====================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>====================================================<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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