{"id":641,"date":"2015-07-21T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=641"},"modified":"2015-07-21T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T00:37:08","slug":"spare-change-and-minimum-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2015\/07\/21\/spare-change-and-minimum-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"Spare Change and Minimum Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I got breakfast at a Whole Foods, and my bill came to $8.02. At first I was annoyed: why can&#8217;t they calculate prices and taxes that land the total on the dollar? My second thought was that maybe generating a ton of change is intentional, so that it&#8217;s easier to give homeless folks a little something as we walk out of stores. My third thought was about the wages paid to Whole Foods workers. [Don&#8217;t ask about how and why my mind skipped from thought to disparate thought!] Earlier in the week I learned about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/how-students-san-jose-raised-minimum-wage\/\" target=\"_blank\">SJSU sociology students helped raise the minimum wage in San Jos\u00e9<\/a>. That&#8217;s the type of story that makes me proud to be in my new post. I&#8217;m looking forward to learning about additional examples of the powerful use of the social sciences here in the San Francisco Bay Area!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I got breakfast at a Whole Foods, and my bill came to $8.02. At first I was annoyed: why can&#8217;t they calculate prices and taxes that land the total on the dollar? My second thought was that maybe generating a ton of change is intentional, so that it&#8217;s easier to give homeless folks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29098],"tags":[1270,3504],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjsu-social-sciences","tag-social-change","tag-social-structure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}