“Living wage” activist organization Acorn.org cosponsored a DC preview of Morgan “Super Size Me” Spurlock’s new TV show, 30 Days, in which Spurlock and his girlfriend attempted to live for a month on the minimum wage.

ACORN should have saved its money so that it could pay its employees. According to Morgan Spurlock Watch, the organization doesn’t pay its employees the $9.06 / hour that it wants others to adopt as the “living wage!” And he’s got a link to a National Labor Relations Board order to prove it.

It gets better. ACORN doesn’t even want to pay the high “living wage” rate — it wants to go the other direction and pay sub-minimum wage. When ACORN sued the State of California in 1995, seeking an exemption from the state minimum wage, ACORN said in a brief that “the more that ACORN must pay each individual outreach worker — either because of minumum wage or overtime requirements — the fewer outreach workers it will be able to hire.” That’s exactly right, as my econ 102 professor used to say — I guess ACORN’s staff missed that course.

Maybe Spurlock could spend 30 days running a business with above-market labor costs and let us know how that goes.

(Here you can read about ACORN’s struggle with unionization attempts, including allegations of union-busting by the “social justice” group.)

(Hat tip: Catallarchy, who h/t’s Econolog)

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