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LA Cuts Off the First Rung of Its Economic Ladder
Teaser: If Los Angeles insists on raising the minimum wage, it should exempt workers 22 and younger. Otherwise, the higher minimum will price teens and students out of jobs and prevent them from...
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Why Unions Exempt Themselves from Hard-Fought Minimum Wage Hikes
Teaser: Rather than caring about low-income Americans, unions care about their own power. Dues and initiation fees are often used to pay for political contributions. Unions donated $60 million to the...
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Cuomo’s Fishy Fast Food Wage Board
Teaser: While Venezuela and Russia might be candidates for such a country, we Americans need look no further than New York to find our home-grown politically corrupt Wage Board. Governor Cuomo has...
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Testimony on Raising the Minimum Wage for Fast-Food Workers
Teaser: An increase in the fast food minimum wage to $15 an hour, as the Wage Board is considering, represents an increase of 66 percent. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, labor costs...
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Testimony on Raising the Minimum Wage for Fast-Food Workers
Teaser: An increase in the fast food minimum wage to $15 an hour, as the Wage Board is considering, represents an increase of 66 percent. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, labor costs...
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This Supreme Court Case Will Decide the Fate of Unions in the U.S.
Teaser: The line between political and nonpolitical spending is often blurred, leading to constitutional questions over collective bargaining’s violation of the First Amendment.This piece originally...
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The Federal Minimum Wage Is Killing Puerto Rico's Economy
Teaser: Federal labor policy is making vast numbers of Puerto Ricans unemployable.Governor Alejandro García Padilla of Puerto Rico announced last week that the U.S. territory would not be able to pay...
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Three Reasons Why Congress Should Repeal the Employer Mandate
Teaser: The Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate will take full effect on January 1, 2016. The mandate stipulates that businesses with fifty or more full-time workers must cover their employees’...
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SEC Pay-Ratio Rule is Kiss of Death for Low-Wage Workers
Teaser: The Securities and Exchange Commission finally approved a rule stemming from that 2010 Dodd-Frank Act that requires corporations to disclose the pay gap between their employees and the...
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Want to Increase Income Inequality? Raise the Minimum Wage
Teaser: Many Americans are worried about a perceived increase in income inequality and a decline in the quintessentially American dream of working hard to get ahead and enjoy a middle-class lifestyle....
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DC Bureaucrats Upend Franchise Businesses
Teaser: What the Board fails to note is that franchises and subcontractors have come about as the most efficient way of providing particular services.Under a National Labor Relations Board decision...
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Workers Don't Do Better In Unions
Teaser: Just in time for Labor Day, Labor Secretary Thomas Perez is resurrecting the old canard that workers do better in unions. His latest blog post uses misleading data to suggest that if workers...
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So Many Job Openings, Why So Few Candidates?
Teaser: Both the high level of job openings and the current 5.1 percent unemployment rate appear to overstate the tightness of the labor market."Job Openings in U.S. Surge to Record While Hiring Cools"...
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Minimum Wage: Ben Carson Has a Point
Teaser: Carson may be on to one of those rare policy ideas with both political and economic benefits.This article originally appeared on RealClearPolicyAt last night's two Republican debates, economic...
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Paid Leave Bill Would be a Lose-Lose for Women and D.C.
Teaser: Washington, D.C.’s, new proposed paid leave bill sounds like a winner, especially for women.This post originally appeared at MarketWatch.Washington, D.C.’s, new proposed paid leave bill sounds...
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