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American Families Are Right To Be Worried About Inflation
“Americans should stop whining about food prices.” That was the message AEI’s Mark J. Perry blasted last September to families gullible enough to believe that rising food prices were a problem: It’s a...
View ArticleWhy Has Wage Growth Stagnated?
By many measures the labor market is improving smartly. The unemployment rate dropped to 5.9 percent in September—not far from the level many economists consider typical during normal economic...
View ArticleThe Personnel Is Political: The Left’s Distorted Outlook on the Minimum Wage
A priceless little gem of leftist thinking appeared yesterday at Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC blog, in which Steve Benen declares a triumph for the campaign to increase the federal minimum wage—in the form of...
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Republicans Have A Serious Immigration Challenge
The difference in opinion between Republican elites and the base of their party on the topic of immigration is very real, but that difference is even more politically significant when you compare it to...
View Article70 Tries After Seattle Raised Its Minimum Wage, I Still Can’t Find A Job
Over the weekend, lawmakers and labor unions in California, the nation’s most populous state, reached a tentative agreement to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the course of the...
View ArticleUnions Have Less Effect On Wages Than You Think
Correlation does not prove causation. But if it did, the Center for American Progress (CAP) would have proved unions reduce wages. Of course, correlations are flimsy evidence, so the study proves...
View ArticleWhy Pay Full Pensions To Unions That Bankrupted Taxpayers Pockets And Kids’...
With every headline about underfunded state and local public pensions, voters are coming to regret the overly generous retirement deals their representatives have negotiated with government unions. Dr....
View ArticleI Lived On The Minimum Wage And Don’t Want Republicans To Raise It
Scrolling through my phone to check the weather, I could not help but read the click-baity coverage of state and local politics, and the hot-button issue of the minimum wage caught my eye. All I want...
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Nope, The Evidence Still Says Income Inequality Is Not A Problem
I recently argued that we don’t have an income inequality problem. My central point was that major studies from the University of Michigan, the U.S. Treasury, and the Federal Reserve have all...
View ArticleIn The Name Of Social Justice, Seattle Plans To Make Disabled People...
Last week, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced a proposal to eliminate the city’s use of special certificates that allow companies to pay wages below the city’s $15 minimum wage. A city council vote is...
View ArticleHow The Minimum Wage Entrenches Inequality And Economic Privilege
This fall, ten states will likely raise their minimum wages, either due to new state labor department regulations or legislation. These states are trying to make their economies fairer. But what they...
View ArticleHow Uber’s Pay Gap Disproves The Pay Discrimination Myth
The discrimination-based pay gap between men and women is a myth that refuses to die. Despite repeated debunking from both academic and media outlets across the political spectrum, the notion that...
View ArticleListen To Federal Reserve Bank President Kashkari On Wages And Lending
Neel Kashkari, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, joins Ben Domenech on The Federalist Radio Hour. They look back at the 2008 financial crisis and discuss...
View ArticleEqual Pay Day Hype Ignores The Facts And Women’s Feelings About The Workplace
For a movement meant to smash the patriarchy, Equal Pay Day shares one of its worst habits—the apparent inability to listen to actual women. Equal Pay Day is a PR holiday established in 1996 by the...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Gets The Way To Raise Amazon Workers’ Salaries Exactly Backward
Sen. Bernie Sanders declared a win last week after Amazon announced that starting November 1 it will pay all its U.S. workers a minimum of $15 an hour.
View ArticleData: Seattle’s Minimum Wage Hike Gets Workers A Measly $10 More Per Week
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.
View ArticleTrump’s State Of The Union Should Launch ‘Middle Class Capitalism’
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.
View Article5 Ways To Ask For A Raise Instead Of Faking A Hate Crime
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.
View ArticleNew Research: Women Earn Less Not Because Of Sexism, But Because They Prefer...
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.
View ArticleAmerican Families Are Right To Be Worried About Inflation
Yes, inflation is a real problem. The prices of major goods are rising faster than American incomes, straining family budgets.
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