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On Oct. 14, Scott Walker may have slipped up when he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about his view on the minimum wage.
“I don’t think it serves a purpose,” he said.
His opponent, Mary Burke, not only believes in a minimum wage. She wants to see it raised to $10.10 an hour.
A majority of Wisconsinites are in Burke’s corner on this bread and butter issue.
The latest Marquette University Law School poll, released on Oct. 15, shows 61 percent of likely voters want to increase the minimum wage, while 35 percent are opposed.
But the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, refutes that.
beginning of 2014 experienced subsequent job growth equal to or better” than those that did not, the center said this month.
The benefit for low-wage workers would be dramatic. It would boost wages for “587,000 workers—over one-in-five workers in the state,” the center noted.
It would be good for children, too. “Some 234,000 Wisconsin children will see family income rise as a result of the minimum wage increase,” the report found.
Walker has been under pressure all fall on this issue. In September, 100 Wisconsin workers filed complaints with the Walker administration that the state’s $7.25 minimum wage violates a 1913 state law.
Back in 1913, Wisconsin and other states passed laws, over the objections of employers, to put a floor on wages based on what it cost workers to live. They calculated the costs of food, housing, and other basic necessities. The beneficiaries of these laws were mainly women and children.
The Walker administration, taking a page from the early twentieth-century industrialists who wanted to keep exploiting child labor and keep forcing workers to slave for next to nothing, denied their claims. “The department has determined that there is no reasonable cause to believe that the wages paid to the complainants are not a living wage,” said Robert Rodriguez, administrator of the equal rights division of the Department of Workforce Development.
According to the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a worker cannot keep a family of four out of poverty even with a full-time job paying $11.36 an hour, much less $7.25 an hour.
Wisconsin Jobs Now, which helped file the complaints, responded immediately to the Walker administration’s denial.
“For the governor to brazenly say to the working families of Wisconsin that $7.25 an hour is enough to sustain themselves is not only misguided, it is incredibly ignorant and willfully obtuse," the group said.
It is also unpopular. And with Walker in a dead heat with Mary Burke in the latest Marquette poll, his reactionary view on the minimum wage could come back to haunt him.
Governor Walker isn't saying that a the current minimum wage "is enough to sustain" anyone. He didn't say it brazenly either except in the opinion of the CWS. He said it doesn't serve a purpose. This article gives voice to that opinion of CWS and uses a fallacy to do so. Minimum wage laws have been around for 100 years and have not solved the matters of poverty or living standards. Those that don't work because of minimum wage laws don't gain experience that will help them progress in their capacities and therefore remain unemployable and uneducated as to how to work and create the life they want by progressing through experience.
Why isn't Mary Burke pounding the airwaves with commercials on raising the minimum wage? 700,000 Wisconsinites live on poverty wages and many of them don't vote. There are no undecided voters in this state, only opportunities to get new voters over this issue.
India has not been able to tackle anaemia among women and children despite launching a targeted programme nearly 50 years back.
National Nutritional Anaemia Prophylaxis’s programme (NNAPP) was launched in 1970 to prevent nutritional anaemia in mothers and children.
Yet according to Global nutrition report 2017, India has the highest number ofwomen affected by anaemia, followed by China, Pakistan, Nigeria and Indonesia.
Union minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey informed parliament that the global nutrition report covers data of 140 countries evaluated against health targets decided by World Health Assembly. Globally, 61.4 crore women aged 15-49 years are affected by anaemia. In India, 14.67 crore women are suffering from anaemia.
As per WHO report on the global prevalence of anaemia 2011, 50 percent cases of anaemia are attributed to iron deficiency. Other causes of anaemia include other micronutrient deficiencies (e.g. folate, riboflavin, vitamins A and B12), acute and chronic infections (e.g. malaria, cancer, tuberculosis and HIV), and inherited or acquired disorders that affect haemoglobin synthesis (e.g. haemoglobinopathies).
As per NFHS data, overall prevalence of anemia among women and adolescent girls has not increased in country from 2005-06(NFHS-3) to 2015-16(NFHS-4). Data on deaths attributed to anaemia is not available for India, said the minister.
The health ministry has implemented National Iron Plus Initiative to prevent anaemia among women, children and adolescents. The program details out interventions for all life stages universally for given age group population in the country: 1. Pre-schoolers (6m-59 months): Bi-weekly IFA syrup; 2. School aged children (5 – 10 years): Pink coloured Weekly IFA tablet (WIFS Junior); 3. Adolescents (11 – 19 years): Blue coloured weekly IFA tablet (WIFS); 4. Women in Reproductive ages (20 – 49 years): Red coloured weekly IFA tablet; 5. Pregnant and lactating women: 1 Tab daily for 180 days starting after 1st Trimester, at 14-16 weeks of gestation. To be repeated for 180 days post-partum.
Undoubtedly, anaemia is the most common nutritional problem in the world. It is one of the leading causes of disabilities. Anaemia at any age has significant negative impact on the health of an individual varying from poor scholastic performance and cognitive impairment in children to one of the major indirect causes of maternal mortalities, said a report “Prevalence of Anaemia in Kerala State, Southern India - A Systematic Review” by PuruShothama Suseela Rakesh.
“In 1991, NNAPP was renamed as NNACP with new strategies to control nutritional anaemia. However, many evidences show that anaemia control program is not performing well in the country, due to various reasons. Considering the magnitude of damage anaemia can cause to the individual and the community on one hand and clear cut mechanisms available for its control on the other, it is highly unacceptable to have anaemia when the nation is striving for sustainable development goals,” the report said.
The planning commission noted that progress on goals on reducing malnutrition and anaemia cannot be assessed for want of updated data, but localised surveys indicated that the status has not improved.
During the Eleventh Plan funding for health by central government has increased to 2.5 times and of States to 2.14 times that in Tenth Plan, to add up to 1.04 per cent of GDP in 2011–12. When broader determinants of health (drinking water and sanitation, ICDS and Mid-Day Meal) are added, the total public spending on health in Eleventh Plan comes to 1.97 per cent of GDP.
Another study too said that prevalence of anaemia in all the groups is higher in India as compared to other developing countries.
In India, anaemia affects an estimated 50% of the population. The problem becomes more severe as more women are affected with it as compared to men. It is estimated that about 20%-40% of maternal deaths in India are due to anaemia and one in every two Indian women (56%) suffers from some form of anaemia, wrote Kawaljit Kaur in “Anaemia ‘a silent killer’ among women in India: Present scenario”.
Kaur said that in India, adolescent girls, who constitute a sizable segment of its population form a vulnerable group and are at a greater risk of morbidity and mortality. It is the shaping period of life when maximum amount of physical, psychological and behavioural changes take place. This is a vulnerable period in the human life cycle for the development of nutritional anaemia. Adolescent girls are particularly prone to iron deficiency anaemia because of increased demand of iron for haemoglobin, myoglobin and to make up the loss of iron due to menstruation and poor dietary habits .
India has among the highest number of cases of anaemia in the world, according to the NFHS-III undertaken in 2005-2006.
M E Bentley & P L Griffiths write in nature.com that prevalence of anaemia was high among all women. In all 32.4% of women had mild, 14.19% had moderate, and 2.2% had severe anaemia. Protective factors include Muslim religion, reported consumption of alcohol or pulses, and high socioeconomic status, particularly in urban areas. Poor urban women had the highest rates and odds of being anaemic. Fifty-two percent of thin, 50% of normal BMI, and 41% of overweight women were anaemic.
Their article “The burden of anaemia among women in India” said that new program strategies are needed, particularly those that improve the overall nutrition status of women of reproductive ages. This will require tailored programs across socio-economic groups and within both rural and urban areas, but particularly among the urban and rural poor.
Mark Allen struggles with the extended rest in his first-round match at Alexandra Palace.
Northern Irishman Allen was facing Englishman Mark Davis in the first round of the Masters.
Allen won through and will face reigning champion Neil Robertson, who beat Ding Junhui 6-5 earlier on Sunday.