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Besides boosting their incomes merely $520 a year, minimum-wage employees also have had to take on second jobs to make up for losing hours due to artificially inflated wage costs.

Middle Class Capitalism isn’t anti-business. It isn’t even anti-big-business. The simple aim is greater competition, fair markets, and higher wages for the American people.

While Jussie Smollett awaits trial for a Class 4 felony charge for filing a false police report, perhaps he could take this opportunity to think of better ways to procure a raise in the future.

The research overwhelmingly suggests the sexes' earnings gap is mostly not caused by sexism. It’s not an unequal pay for equal work issue, it’s largely that women do different work.

Illegal immigration may look good for the economy on the surface, but a deeper look reveals exorbitant costs that disproportionately hurt some of the worst-off in America.

A new study on the long-term effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Act indicates the leftist policy may be leaving mothers in a less favorable position than they were in before the policy was enacted.

Widening inequality and slowing social mobility really is a problem in America, and government policies championed by the elite have exacerbated this inequality.

Trump is uniquely gifted to bring black America back into the GOP. Come spring 2020, he should go to Detroit and aim for winning back black voters.

'The reason some jobs pay too little to attract native-born Americans is competition from poorly paid immigrants' is a quote from the New York Times, not the president.

More than any other president in 40 years, Donald Trump has benefitted working-class Americans, especially African Americans. New data only reinforces that amazing trend.

Republicans must become not just the party of workers but also the party of families. They should do it by upping Joe Biden’s proposed child tax credit into something bigger.

For all our talk about economic populism, we need to think about what cultural populism might look like as well.

Life is breezier on unemployment than behind the Chipotle counter, so the burrito heaven is trying to lure workers back and I'm paying for it.

Biden claims his jobs plan 'is working' but inflation is surging, more than wiping out any wage gains American workers might have experienced.

We may seriously begin to ask if leftwing America is a massive oligarchy cloaked in identity politics.

If lawmakers want to improve opportunities for workers, they must carefully consider one reason the Federal Trade Commission's non-compete ban is not as pro-worker as it sounds.