Even in California's Progressive Paradise, Gov. Brown Understands Dangers of Minimum Wage Hikes
Warns $15-an-hour jump would wreck state budgeting.
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.
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
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