The Negative Consequences of Raising D.C.'s Minimum Wage
Good intentions and unintended effects.
Good intentions and unintended effects.
Why should voters have a say in consensual relations between people?
"Here's ad: $10/day 4 apprentice," Deputy Metro Editor Michael Luo tweeted
Urges $15 minimum wage on chain restaurants & says, "This is just the beginning. We will not stop until we reach true economic justice."
An idea so great everybody is worried what will happen if other cities don't follow suit.
'Obamacare is working quite well,' said Krugman.
The celebrity chef talks about America's food revolution, and the overzealous regulators who threaten it
Demands $15 per hour by 2020.
It's harder to do good for someone if doing good costs a lot more. And employing someone is often doing good for them.
Corrupt labor leader has the gall to call his rule-bending 'freedom'
Government intervention is never the panacea some on the left want to believe.
Reactionary policy tends to be bad policy.
Even if Asian nail salons are as exploitative and toxic as the Times says, the answer isn't more government oversight.
Power to the individual, not to the state!
Los Angeles and Seattle institute or contemplate big minimum wage hikes, and the furor over how restaurants will be affected continues.
Pricing yourself out of the market is not so smart
Magical thinking that hurts job seekers
Yes, a higher minimum wage can kill small businesses.
With about a quarter of the vote counted
Alaska and South Dakota also have votes
Smashing the corporate state to free markets and workers
Or, how to prove your beliefs don't work in the real world.
Ballot initiatives across the country offer more substance in the midterm elections than the battle for Senate control.
Left free, the market will provide the greatest benefit to workers, employers, and consumers.
Raising the price of labor is likely to do more harm than good.
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