Minimum Wage Increases Kick In; Start Watching for Winners and Losers
Some businesses can't handle the increased burdens.
Some businesses can't handle the increased burdens.
Better jobs come along as technologies change societies.
Want to change the rules? Go ask Congress.
In a shocking twist, D.C. is not exempt to the basic laws of economics.
Unnecessary state regulations add costly burdens with no real safety benefits.
A family chronicle of the crackup of poor working-class white Americans.
Forward comrades to the unemployment lines and soup kitchens!
New York's new $15 wage floor pits man against machine.
Imagine what will happen to flyover country under even more wage regulations.
Market pressures were already making wages more competitive.
How to erase billions from the American economy.
If you thought the exit of Marco Rubio meant we could forget about the welder issue, alas, no such luck.
Young people entering the workforce without a degree or a "rent-seeking" license face low wages, if they can even find a job.
If the program is so good, shouldn't government workers be included, too?
"Paid parental leave isn't just a nice thing to do, it's the smart thing to do for our business."
It needs to stop putting roadblocks in the way of refugees and immigrants seeking jobs
Good intentions, but a near total failure as an anti-poverty policy
Good intentions, but a near total failure as an anti-poverty policy
Legislators hurry to act before the alarm bells can be rung.
Trump's margins of victory were considerably larger in distressed counties than in more prosperous counties.
Lifetime ban ruled a violation of due process.
The taxi cartel claims jobs will be lost, but the numbers don't add up.
The right answer needs the right argument to avoid callousness.
Pay freeze over, for government types anyway.
An extremely predictable lesson in consequences
Licensing restrictions cost millions of American jobs and raise consumer costs by billions, federal officials say.
Ronald Bailey Will Argue Against the Motion at Future Tense on Thursday, June 4
It's harder to do good for someone if doing good costs a lot more. And employing someone is often doing good for them.
The real key to job creation is leaving people free to explore, innovate and profit.
For now humans make sub-par robots and robots make sub-par humans.
Magical thinking that hurts job seekers
Does a new NBER study prove that cutting unemployment benefits increases employment?
The president addresses a country that currently hates his political party by offering more big government.
The country may be limping along, but we did it to ourselves.