Reply #16: US should use its market power as pressure [View All]

[Armstead]

It would be easy for the US to exert pressure to raise wages overseas by regulation and/or public and corporate pressure.

We can basically demand that all goods entering the US adhere to basic standards for wages and working conditions.

No more Ipods made by people working under slave-like conditions. No more jeans sewed by 12 year old girls working 70 hours a week.

Countries and cvompanies who want to p
(As for the detailsa, it would not be difficult to determine what the equivalent of a livable working class income would be in those countries.)