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May 11, 2015

Raising The Minimum Wage Is The Right Thing To Do: Wherein Robert Reich Gets It All Wrong

Robert Reich seems to be a smart man. He served under three presidents, and now is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Continue Reading...

April 28, 2015

Who Earns Minimum Wage And Why It’s Okay

Do you remember trying to find that first job? You’d be told you needed experience by an would-be employer, but no one would hire you so you could get the experience. Continue Reading...

March 27, 2015

The Smile Curve and the Future of the Middle Class

The smile curve is an idea came from the computer industry, but it applies broadly. It’s a recognition, in graph form, that there is good money to be made (or more value to be added) in research and development, and, at the other end, in marketing and retailing. Continue Reading...

February 23, 2015

What Patricia Arquette Should Have Said About the Wage Gap and Women’s Rights

During last night’s Oscar ceremony, Best Supporting Actress winner Patricia Arquette used her acceptance speech to rail against unfair pay for women: To every women who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. Continue Reading...

February 10, 2015

Mike Rowe on the minimum wage: There’s no such thing as a ‘bad job’

In the latest addition to Mike Rowe’s growing catalog of pointed Facebook responses, the former Dirty Jobs host tackles a question on the minimum wage, answering a man named “Darrell Paul,” who asks: The federal minimum wage is $7.25 and hour. Continue Reading...

January 20, 2015

Motherhood Is More Than a Job

I have plenty of hesitations about heeding various calls to “work-life balance,” mostly because they tend to dismiss or downplay the reality that “work” is often a lot less work than “life.” Continue Reading...

January 05, 2015

Increase Minimum Wage Or Increase Employment?

One holdover from 2014 into the new year is the cry for an increase in the minimum wage. President Obama pledged (in a December 2014 speech) to bump the minimum wage up to $9/hour nationally. Continue Reading...

November 13, 2014

In Michigan, Raising The Minimum Wage Hurts The Most Vulnerable

If you’re blessed, your job is more than just a paycheck. It’s a structure for your life, it’s a place of friendship and camaraderie, and a sense of purpose. At least, it was for Stacy Osborn. Continue Reading...

November 07, 2014

No Midterm Elections Could Save Europe

Things really aren’t looking good across the pond. Acton’s Director of Research, Samuel Gregg, has written quite a bit about the decline in Europe. His latest ‘Meanwhile, Europe is (Still) Burning’ in the American Spectator, discusses the inability or unwillingness of European governments to respond to economic trouble. Continue Reading...

June 10, 2014

Unemployment is a Spiritual Problem

The longer that Americans are unemployed, the more likely they are to report signs of poor psychological well-being. A recent Gallup survey found that about one in five Americans who have been unemployed for a year or more say they currently have or are being treated for depression. Continue Reading...

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