Missouri Legislature Votes To Put Brakes on St. Louis Minimum Wage
The bill still requires the signature of a non-committal Gov. Greitens.
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St. Louis Fights Reality, Boosts Minimum Wage
Job losses and price increases are on the horizon.
It Costs a Lot When Government Sets Prices
Be it cigarettes, imported products, or even labor.
Will the New York Times' Labor Reporting Ever Get the Facts Straight?
After an embarrassing correction, the paper mangles the details again.
Minimum Wage Increases Make Restaurants More Likely to Fail
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 Experiment With Higher Minimum Wage: 4,000 Fewer Restaurant Jobs
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.
Baltimore Mayor Supported $15 Minimum Wage Until She Learned What It Would Do to City's Economy
It's no April Fool's joke. Mayor Catherine Pugh vetoes a $15/hour wage mandate, citing economic concerns.
Minimum Wage Increases Kick In; Start Watching for Winners and Losers
Some businesses can't handle the increased burdens.
Did California Violate Constitution with Law 'Punishing' Two Firms?
Fruit growers that ran afoul of the union were denied legal protection other companies received.
Andy Puzder, Trump's Pick for Labor Secretary, is a Fast Food CEO Who Has Criticized Obamacare and the Minimum Wage
He also wants to build a fully automated, employee-free restaurant.
Pot, Death, and Minimum Wage: 6 Things to Pay Attention to This Election
There's more to this election than Trump and Clinton.
Venezuela Raises Minimum Wage, Public Sector Pay to Quell Protests
Government responds to inflationary pressure by contributing to it.
Leaked Clinton Emails Reveal that Even Democratic Policy Advisers Worry a $15 Federal Minimum Wage Would Cost Jobs
The Democratic presidential candidate knows a $15 an hour federal minimum would cost jobs, but supports it anyway.
Hillary Forgets the Growth Lessons of Bill's Presidency
In order to appease far-left voters, she's abandoning economic literacy.
Fight For $15 Meets Reality: D.C. Restaurants Lost 1,400 Jobs During First Half of 2016
In a shocking twist, D.C. is not exempt to the basic laws of economics.
Donald Trump Supports a $10 Minimum Wage—Or Does He?
Trump contradicts himself three times while answering a simple question-then offers another contradiction to clarify.
Bernie Sanders Minus War, Weed, and Surveillance Is Just a Shouty Statist
In order to achieve "unity" with Hillary Clinton, the democratic socialist drops most everything that made him interesting
The Double Standard on Low-Wage Work
Democrats love unpaid interns. Republicans more likely to pay them.
Having Helped Shape the Dems Platform, Sanders Throws Support Behind Clinton
Got his minimum wage plank and Clinton's support for free college.
That Time When Raising the Minimum Wage Cut the Number of Jobs
Boston Globe provides inadvertent economics lesson.
$15 Minimum Wage Could Kill Up to 5 Million Jobs
Forward comrades to the unemployment lines and soup kitchens!
Sanders Supporters May Lose the Presidency Today, but Win the Party
Even as Clinton reaches the delegate threshold, the Dems attempt to cater.
Minimum Wage vs. the Carwasheros
New York's new $15 wage floor pits man against machine.
Workers Don't Need Government's Help to Earn Higher Wages
Compensation is actually very closely tied to productivity.
Weak Enforcement Will Blunt the Impact of New York's $15 Minimum Wage
Luckily, the state is incapable of administering a potentially disastrous law.
Is the $15 Minimum Wage Coming to Cleveland?
The city is considering a bill backed by a union PAC.
Lessons in Wendy's New Push for Self-Service Kiosks
Market pressures were already making wages more competitive.
Hillary's State Department Stopped Haiti From Increasing Its Minimum Wage to 61 Cents
Because it would have hurt an already anemic economy. Sound familiar?
Four Progressive Minimum Wage Myths Debunked
Democrats are just making things up to advance their job-killing cause.
The NY Primary, Minimum Wage, Fracking, Chicago's Allegedy Racist Cops, and the Speech Police: The Fifth Column Podcast Returns
Matt Welch, Kmele Foster and Michael Moynihan try to figure out who's the real New Yorker
Hillary Clinton Just Turned the Democratic Party Into the Party of the $15 an Hour Minimum Wage
The Democratic frontrunner proves she's willing to take a dangerous, irresponsible gamble with the economy.
The Cruelty of the $15 Minimum Wage
Q&A with economist and Cafe Hayek blogger Don Boudreaux.
Some L.A. Unionized Hotel Workers Realize They've Been Screwed Over
Exemptions to minimum wage laws give labor power at the expense of their own members.
$15 Minimum Wage Follies in California and New York
Good intentions, but a near total failure as an anti-poverty policy
$15 Minimum Wage Follies in California and New York: New at Reason
Good intentions, but a near total failure as an anti-poverty policy
What if the Minimum Wage Increase Is a Fraud?
Politicians ignore the economic consequences of central planning and hope voters will reward them for it.
Gov. Brown Admits $15 Minimum Wage Does Not Make Economic Sense, Approves It Anyway
A shrug in the direction of California's poorer counties
California Passes $15 Minimum Wage; New York to Follow
Legislators hurry to act before the alarm bells can be rung.
Heaven Help California's Non-Urban Cities Under a $15 Minimum Wage
Lessons in how to make double-digit unemployment permanent.
Would Yelp Hire Millennials If It Was Forced to Pay Them a Higher Minimum Wage?
Low-wage jobs are stepping stones for young employees.
