{"id":51063,"date":"2015-08-04T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_gleanings_70000_minimum_yearly_wage_brings_bible_parable_to_life_unfortu\/"},"modified":"2015-08-04T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T22:00:10","slug":"ct_gleanings_70000_minimum_yearly_wage_brings_bible_parable_to_life_unfortu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51063","title":{"rendered":"(CT Gleanings) $70,000 Minimum Yearly Wage Brings Bible Parable to Life (Unfortunately)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Dan Price, a graduate of Seattle Pacific University and CEO of Seattle-based Gravity Payments, made headlines nationwide after announcing plans to raise his employees\u2019 base salary to $70,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone at Gravity Payments agrees with his plans to share the wealth. \u00c2\u00ad\u00c2\u00ad\u00c2\u00ad\u00c2\u00ad\u00c2\u00ad\u00c2\u00ad<\/p>\n<p>Two of his top employees quit in protest. His brother, a co-owner of Gravity Payments, filed suit. Other local companies complained that Price made them look stingy, according to The New York Times (NYT).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s as if Jesus\u2019s parable about the workers in the vineyard\u201d\u201dwhere latecomers got the same pay as those who worked all day\u201d\u201dhas come to life, the NYT points out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2015\/august\/70000-minimum-wage-bible-parable-gravity-payments.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Dan Price, a graduate of Seattle Pacific University and CEO of Seattle-based Gravity Payments, made headlines nationwide after announcing plans to raise his employees\u2019 base salary to $70,000 a year. But not everyone at Gravity Payments agrees<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51063\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,175,589,149,168,597,177,151,129,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}