Minimum Wage

October 18, 2016

Few Americans who work full-time are in poverty

“No one in America should be working 40 hours a week and living below the poverty level,” said Joe Biden last year, “No one. No one.” That’s a sentiment I share with the vice president. Continue Reading...

October 05, 2016

The co-bots are coming to fast food factories

“We’re going to need to see your birth certificate,” the manager said, making a notation on my employment application, “But you’re hired. Show up a 10 a.m. on Thursday for training.” Continue Reading...

August 16, 2016

The danger of looking past economics and raising the minimum wage

This past week, one of the rising political figures in the Democratic Party, Mayor Peter Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana penned an op-ed for the South Bend Tribune arguing that raising the minimum wage is “the right thing to do.” Continue Reading...

July 12, 2016

Unemployment for Black Male Teens Spikes. Are Minimum Wage Increases to Blame?

The most recent jobs report appeared to present a positive impression of our current employment situation. As the New York Times headline read, “Jobs Roar Back With Gain of 287,000 in June, Easing Worry.” Continue Reading...

April 28, 2016

Does Free Trade Between Texas and California Cost Jobs?

There is something about an election year that causes otherwise rational people to lose all economic sense. Take, for example, the issue of free trade. The opposition to free trade on both sides of the politial spectrum is baffling. Continue Reading...

April 08, 2016

Why We Should Oppose Both Skynet and Minimum Wage Increases

I oppose implementing Skynet and increasing minimum wage laws for the same reason: to forestall the robots. It’s probably inevitable that a T-1000 will return from the future to terminate John Connor. Continue Reading...

April 07, 2016

Minimum Wage Advocates: ‘Sure a $15 Wage Will Increase Unemployment. So What?’

In almost every long-term clash over a cultural or political policy, there comes a point that I’d call the “comfort-level concession.” If the agenda of one side has been won — or has at least moved sufficiently toward achieving victory — the winning side often feels comfortable making concessions about claims that they may have previously denied. Continue Reading...

March 30, 2016

10 Things You Should Know About the Minimum Wage Debate

Since 1938, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the first federal minimum wage in the U.S., a debate has raged about whether wage floors help or hurt workers. But thanks to a radical economic experiment in California, we may be only a few years away from having a definitive answer. Continue Reading...

January 22, 2016

The Cruelty of the Minimum Wage

If the goal is to improve the economic fortunes of the least-advantaged workers and families, says economist Don Boudreaux in this short animated video, then the minimum wage is a terrible idea. Continue Reading...

December 07, 2015

The Federal ‘Anti-Poverty’ Program that Taxes the Poor

Imagine you’re at the checkout line at the supermarket and the clerk asks how much income your family earns each year. Offended, you ask why that is any of her business. Continue Reading...

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