minimum wage

What is the common element that connects Medicare, occupational licensing, free college, and affordable housing? According to Ed Glaeser in a recent interview, they illustrate how past efforts to…

There is a great deal of public discussion right now about the minimum wage. Democrats and activists want to raise it, and they have settled on the arbitrary figure of…

The John Locke Foundation’s policy position on the minimum wage concludes with this recommendation: Keep the state minimum wage no higher than the federal minimum wage. Create no greater harm…

As part of the US-Mexico trade deal that was announced last week, the Trump administration argued for and won a $16 per hour minimum wage for auto and auto…

Recently, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo accidentally self-reported a serious federal violation. He could face a $100,000 fine. See if you can spot it here: “One of the highlight…

Sometimes we know the answer but dislike its implications so much we try to avoid it to find the easier way around it — and usually fail. Such as the…

If you’re a fan of Subway, perhaps you like getting a “five-dollar footlong.” Maybe you even like the jingle. But in Seattle, you’d be singing a different tune when you…

This week, the Raleigh City Council adopted a Universal Living Wage policy.  They’re not the first city in the North Carolina to do so, and they’ll likely not be the…

During the period of apartheid in South Africa, all-white labor unions representing workers in the diamond mines were able to have put in place minimum wage laws for diamond mine…

Do you believe that a minority teenager, maybe a high school drop out, with very few job skills, has a right to work? Or do you believe that being low…