Congress kneecapped minor league ballplayers' lawsuit with last week's omnibus bill. Even if that was the right thing to do, the way it was done is wrong.
Hiking the minimum wage is feel-good humanitarian idea that's guaranteed to hurt actual humans.
Unfortunately, that's not all it's doing.
Appeals to what 'economists say' is used to coat liberal policy positions with a veneer of scientific certitude.
A loss of opportunities equal to about four percent of the workforce.
Union influence (and the pursuit of deep pockets) temporarily overruled economic literacy and common sense.
The latest hysterical overreaction to a regulatory rollback
The former fast food restaurant CEO says a $15 wage floor steals opportunities from entry-level workers.
Outlawing cheap labor comes with a lot of disastrous consequences.
Despite the selective outrage from media and politicians, St. Louis workers will be better off without a higher minimum wage.
Minimum wage laws have negative effects whether or not their advocates acknowledge them.
A new study reminds us that the law of supply and demand still applies to labor
Workers and business owners have pleaded with council members to consider the cost of their action.
A new University of Washington study finds that workers are losing $125 a month in lost hours thanks to the city's minimum wage law.
A new "very credible" study on $15 minimum wage validates law of supply and demand.
The future of human-robot relations is silly and sensible, not sinister.
The bill still requires the signature of a non-committal Gov. Greitens.
Job losses and price increases are on the horizon.
Be it cigarettes, imported products, or even labor.
After an embarrassing correction, the paper mangles the details again.
Every $1 increase in minimum wage makes mid-level restaurants 14 percent more likely to fail, Harvard economists say. Workers, business owners, consumers lose.
San Diego's restaurant recession is another data point suggesting that making it more expensive to employ people causes fewer people to be employed. Shocker.
It's no April Fool's joke. Mayor Catherine Pugh vetoes a $15/hour wage mandate, citing economic concerns.
Some businesses can't handle the increased burdens.
Fruit growers that ran afoul of the union were denied legal protection other companies received.
He also wants to build a fully automated, employee-free restaurant.
There's more to this election than Trump and Clinton.
Government responds to inflationary pressure by contributing to it.
The Democratic presidential candidate knows a $15 an hour federal minimum would cost jobs, but supports it anyway.
In order to appease far-left voters, she's abandoning economic literacy.
In a shocking twist, D.C. is not exempt to the basic laws of economics.
Trump contradicts himself three times while answering a simple question-then offers another contradiction to clarify.
In order to achieve "unity" with Hillary Clinton, the democratic socialist drops most everything that made him interesting
Democrats love unpaid interns. Republicans more likely to pay them.
Got his minimum wage plank and Clinton's support for free college.
Boston Globe provides inadvertent economics lesson.
Forward comrades to the unemployment lines and soup kitchens!
Even as Clinton reaches the delegate threshold, the Dems attempt to cater.
New York's new $15 wage floor pits man against machine.
Compensation is actually very closely tied to productivity.
Luckily, the state is incapable of administering a potentially disastrous law.
The city is considering a bill backed by a union PAC.
Market pressures were already making wages more competitive.
Because it would have hurt an already anemic economy. Sound familiar?
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