The National University System was established in 2001 to meet the emerging challenges and demands of education in the 21st century. The System is uniquely aligned to connect a diverse population of students to a network of innovative educational programs that are relevant to their lives, careers, and the marketplace and are delivered in a format that respects competing life priorities.
Mike Pasulka, co-owner of Players Sports Grill in Poway and San Marcos, has started working some bartending shifts himself to cut down on labor costs. It's like balancing a scale; when one side goes up the other side goes down, he said. (K.C. Alfred / San Diego Union-Tribune)
No: Unintended consequences far outweigh relatively few benefits: greater pressures on worker productivity to compensate for higher wages; rising cost of living as cost of goods and services increases; not only existing jobs and companies lost, but those that would have been created; fewer opportunities for teenagers and inexperienced workers to enter labor market; hastens conversion to automation and machines doing work. In the end, net lower income overall and further disparity of middle class households. - Kelly Cunningham, National University System