Venezuela Raises Minimum Wage, Public Sector Pay to Quell Protests
Government responds to inflationary pressure by contributing to it.
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?
Democrats are just making things up to advance their job-killing cause.
Matt Welch, Kmele Foster and Michael Moynihan try to figure out who's the real New Yorker
The Democratic frontrunner proves she's willing to take a dangerous, irresponsible gamble with the economy.
Q&A with economist and Cafe Hayek blogger Don Boudreaux.
Exemptions to minimum wage laws give labor power at the expense of their own members.
Good intentions, but a near total failure as an anti-poverty policy
Good intentions, but a near total failure as an anti-poverty policy
Politicians ignore the economic consequences of central planning and hope voters will reward them for it.
A shrug in the direction of California's poorer counties
Legislators hurry to act before the alarm bells can be rung.
Lessons in how to make double-digit unemployment permanent.
Low-wage jobs are stepping stones for young employees.
Warns $15-an-hour jump would wreck state budgeting.
Success is seen as a disaster when you care more about income inequality than mobility.
L.A. County creates enforcement squad, considers more business licensing.
Somebody should picket for mandatory economics classes.
Unions sponsor dueling propositions to raise pay minimums to $15
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey on entrepreneurship, snobbery, and the minimum wage
This is an idea that's become increasingly common amongst more liberal Democratic politicians and policymakers.
An extremely predictable lesson in consequences
This doesn't mean no one is harmed by the minimum wage, for a number of reasons.
War on teen opportunity
They're jealous, he says, they side with rulers, and they don't understand how markets work.
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