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Labor Market

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Immigration

The Feds Wasted 66,000 Green Cards in the Middle of a Worker Shortage

The immigration bureaucracy is worsening one of the tightest labor markets in recent American history.

Eric Boehm | 4.14.2022 11:30 AM

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Labor

The Great Resignation Shows What Empowered Workers Really Look Like

Unions or minimum wage laws aren't required for workers to shift the balance of power.

J.D. Tuccille | 3.11.2022 7:00 AM

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Minimum Wage

Shortage of Adult Workers Makes Teens Employable Again

Minimum wage laws priced young workers out of the market before the pandemic and may do so in the future.

J.D. Tuccille | 11.29.2021 7:00 AM

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Immigration

Let Immigrants Take the Jobs American Workers Don't Want

The H-2B visa allows foreign workers to fill jobs that native-born Americans aren't interested in.

Fiona Harrigan | 6.7.2021 2:55 PM

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Regulation

'Hero Pay' for Grocery Workers Is Terrible for Grocery Workers

Laws which mandate big wage increases for workers during the pandemic are leaving store closures in their wake.

Christian Britschgi | 5.30.2021 6:00 AM

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Women

The Gender Gap in Pandemic Job Losses Has Been Wildly Exaggerated

Jobs data casts doubt on the idea that the COVID-19 pandemic is uniquely setting women back. 

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.11.2021 2:30 PM

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Economics

How Economists Learned to Love Minimum Wage Hikes

Would raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour cost jobs?

Peter Suderman | 4.15.2021 6:00 AM

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Minimum Wage

A Higher Minimum Wage Lowers Opportunities for America's Poorest Workers

Minimum wage jobs aren't supposed to be career choices, but stepping stones on the way to other things. Everyone has to start out somewhere.

Steven Greenhut | 1.29.2021 8:00 AM

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Coronavirus

Los Angeles Might Force Broke Businesses To Keep Paying Workers During Coronavirus Outbreak

The mandates would be retroactive, potentially punishing businesses for violating rules they did not even know existed.

Steven Greenhut and C. Jarrett Dieterle | 3.27.2020 11:30 AM

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Economics

Unemployment, Underemployment, and the Comprehensive Jobless Rate

When it comes to the health of the labor market, we don’t know the full story.

Veronique de Rugy | 7.18.2019 12:01 AM

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HomePage

The Government Can't—and Won't—Give Meaning to Your Life

A conservative technocrat tries to engineer a better world.

Peter Suderman | 2.4.2019 6:00 AM

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