Is the American Labor Movement Dying? All Signs Point to Yes.
Joe Biden likes to talk about how “unions built this country.” And, up to a point, he’s right. From FDR to Nixon, the American labor movement held considerable sway over…
The Opportunity-Killing Minimum Wage
“The Right Minimum Wage: $0.00.” That was the title of a 1987 editorial in a major American newspaper. The editorial stated: “There’s a virtual consensus among economists that the minimum…
Contradicting Her Own Claim, Yellen Says Minimum Wage Hike Would Result in ‘Minimal’ Job Loss
Treasury secretary nominee Janet Yellen previously backed a 2014 report that found a $10.10 federal minimum wage could kill half a million jobs. On Tuesday, she claimed that a $15…
Big Minimum Wage Hikes Harm Those They Are Intended to Help. Make These Reforms Instead.
In 2017, Target announced it would raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour by the end of 2020, drawing praise from labor advocates who have called for other retailers…
Seattle’s Minimum Wage Has Been a Disaster, as the City’s Own Study Confirms
The Seattle Minimum Wage Study, a study supported and funded in part by the Seattle city government, is out with a new NBER paperevaluating Seattle’s minimum wage increase to $13 an…
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SHOCK: Bernie Sanders Pays LESS Than $15 And NO OVERTIME!
For all is rhetoric, it may turn out that socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders is just another hypocritical politician who takes money from big corporations, invests in Wall Street and, reportedly, pays his workers “poverty wages”…
Rise of the Robots: A Bad Argument for a Bigger Welfare State
By Jay W. Richards • National Review A group of scientists and activists wrote the president to warn him of an automated future that will give rise to “a separate…
Analysis: A $15 Minimum Wage Will Cost California 400,000 Jobs
by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon California is projected to have a $15 statewide minimum wage by 2022. Economists project this will lead to a loss of 400,000 jobs,…
Harvard Study: Minimum Wage Hikes Cut Entry-Level Jobs, Harm Poor Minorities Most
By Erielle Davidson • The Federalist Harvard Business School recently released a working paper titled “Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit,” discussing the…
D.C. Restaurants Lose Eight Jobs a Day as Wage Hikes Take Effect
by Bill McMorris • Washington Free Beacon Restaurants in the nation’s capital experienced their worst hiring period in 15 years, fueling speculation that wage hikes are reducing employment opportunities. Employment…
30% of Businesses Say They Would Eliminate Jobs As A Result of $15 Minimum Wage
Thirty percent of businesses said they would eliminate jobs if the minimum wage were increased to $15 an hour, according to a survey from Express Employment Professionals. The survey asked…
Who benefits and who is harmed by $15 minimum wage?
by Larry Elder • Townhall Fourteen to one, in favor. That was the Los Angeles City Council vote to raise, over the next five years, the city’s minimum…
Mob Rule Economics
by Thomas Sowell • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review While we talk about democracy and equal rights, we seem increasingly to let both private and government decisions be determined by mob…
The real jobs debate
The article below discusses the push in Illinois to raise the minimum wage to $10 and hour. While we cannot endorse each point made in the article, it does a…
Fact Free Policy Debates: Part II
by Thomas Sowell Words seem to carry far more weight than facts among those liberals who argue as if rent control laws actually control rents and gun control laws actually…