The New York Times Claimed D.C.'s Minimum Wage Hike Created Jobs. We Exposed Their Error.
The reporting was cited by One Fair Wage as proof that its policy worked.
The reporting was cited by One Fair Wage as proof that its policy worked.
Eliminating the tipped wage in Washington, D.C., has led to higher prices and fewer restaurant jobs.
The Democratic state displayed more economic literacy than its Republican counterparts.
There is a "virtual consensus" among economists that the minimum wage puts people out of work.
The tug-of-war over what role the government should play in regulating compensation for tipped workers has subverted typical partisan lines.
Competing visions on tipping policies highlight the differences in the candidates’ approaches to winning over working-class voters—but neither will provide much benefit.
"I've been in the business for 25 years...I never had to increase the amount of pricing that I did this past time in April," one business owner told the A.P.
Vance thinks that jobs lost because of incompetent central planning don't matter—but that jobs lost to immigrants do.
Many have seen their hours reduced—or have lost their jobs entirely.
Having someone take your fast-food order on a virtual call may seem strange, but the benefits speak for themselves.
Chasing Seattle's shadow, Minneapolis' new ride-share wage law threatens to derail the gig economy.
Hiking wages through law is a crowd-pleaser, but it kills employment unless you’re a robot.
Just two weeks after the law went into effect, Seattleites had to contend with $26 coffees and $32 sandwiches.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's response to allegations of favoritism only serve to underline how the entire fast food minimum wage law was a giveaway to his buddies.
Probably because Greg Flynn, who operates 24 of the bakery cafes in California, is a longtime friend of Gov. Gavin Newsom.
If you’re going to set arbitrary prices for labor, why not shoot for the moon?
Plus: Aid for Ukraine, remote learning for 5-year-olds, intermittent fasting for Palestine, and more...
Plus: An immigration deal that's already collapsing, more expensive Big Macs, and Taylor Swift (because why not).
Pizza Hut announced plans to lay off 1,200 delivery drivers on Wednesday.
Higher prices created by a $20 minimum wage for burger joints will lead to fewer customers, reduced profits, fewer restaurants, and a loss of jobs.
Boosting minimum wages often increases unemployment and raises prices.
Cities around the country are contemplating bans on drive-thrus and other new regulations.
The proposal would raise the federal minimum wage by 134 percent.
We’d all be better off if politicians spared us their experiments in subsidies, wages, and trade.
When I was young, I assumed government would lift people out of poverty. But those policies often do more harm than good.
Some people would benefit. Others would lose money or be rendered unemployable.
A minimum wage increase passed in Nebraska and appears to have done the same in Nevada. In D.C., tipped workers will get a possibly unwelcome increase as well.
Where have we heard before about government councils dictating terms to nominally private enterprise?
Unionization helps some. But it hurts more.
The state’s unemployment rate is well above average, yet there’s a ballot initiative hoping to push the minimum wage to $18 an hour.
It’s great when innovations let us work less, but top-down, inflexible government demands are not the way to get there.
Both Republicans and Democrats want to address poverty with big government.
Minimum wage laws priced young workers out of the market before the pandemic and may do so in the future.
Can the government really cut everyone a check without bankrupting the country and killing labor force participation?
One of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in economics inadvertently created a pro-liberty methodology.
It's a defense of scientific values that sadly need defending.
Under Biden, Democrats have decided that their agenda has no costs and no tradeoffs.
Taking advantage of variations in state minimum wage hikes, researchers find strong effects for bigger hikes, not much for smaller ones.
Laws which mandate big wage increases for workers during the pandemic are leaving store closures in their wake.
Despite their professed goals, Democrats' pandemic policies have widened disparities between races, classes, and genders.
Would raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour cost jobs?
So many people are leaving the state that it will soon lose a congressional seat.
Grocery store company Kroger has announced that it will be closing three stores in Los Angeles as a result of the county's new hazard pay law.
But the real reason why Democrats should abandon the effort to hike the federal minimum wage has nothing to do with arcane Senate rules or the filibuster.
Like so many well-intentioned policies, it hurts the people it's supposed to help.
Do small businesses need another punch in the gut?
Fewer low wage businesses also means fewer job opportunities for low wage workers.
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