Essays on Gorry

Introduction

There is no state decided minimum wage in the state of Tennessee; therefore, they follow the federal minimum wage. Therefore, there is no promised wage law in the state that requires states to pay their wages promptly. Like many other states throughout the United States of America, FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act) applies to Tennessee workers set according to the Federal Minimum Wage and Labor Law. According to federal minimum wage in 2015, businesses throughout the state of Tennessee need to pay $7.25 per hour. The majority of workers in Tennessee gets $7.25 per hour for their daily labor ...

Introduction and History

United States federal government spending on Social Security is greater than any other programs. Social Security program was founded in the year 1935, this program has consisted of two different parts; the OASI (Old-Age and Survivors Insurance) that pays to the retired workers and to their survivors and dependents, and the DI (Disability Insurance) that makes payments to the disabled workers who are years away from reaching their full retirement age and to any of their dependents. To accumulate the numbers, at present more than 57 million are currently receive these Social Security benefits in the United States (Meyerson & ...

In his column "Steal this MP3 File: What Is Theft?", Gorry tackles the issue of copyright infringement on the digital music age. In this discussion with his students, Gorry comes up with many interesting dilemmas. For example, is it stealing if I do not take something physically from you, but copy it? What if I get a copy from a friend as a gift, but they did not pay for it? However, some of the students believe that information seeks to be free, and the technology exists to liberate it - the students then argue that the solution is for the economics ...