California's $20 Minimum Wage Will Hurt the Fast Food Workers It's Meant To Help
Boosting minimum wages often increases unemployment and raises prices.
Boosting minimum wages often increases unemployment and raises prices.
The worst of the antitrust alarmism keeps proving untrue, as tech companies believed by some to be monopolies instead lose market share.
American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and the largest union of pilots want the government to change regulations that allow a smaller competitor to operate.
The Reason Sindex tracks the price of vice: smoking, drinking, snacking, traveling, and more.
The Department of Defense spent $1.2 billion on furniture between 2020 and 2022, although it only uses 23 percent of its office space.
Those sounding the loudest alarms about possible shutdowns are largely silent when Congress ignores its own budgetary rules. All that seems to matter is that government is metaphorically funded.
Rising bond yields mean the national debt is going to be a lot more expensive in the next few years, and we just keep adding to it.
The president voiced support for the union's goals on the picket line but companies are already struggling to build fuel-efficient cars that Biden wants to prioritize.
David Friedman's anarchism doesn't have the answer for everything. That's the point.
With a second term, the former president promised to end California's water shortage, clear homeless encampments, and conduct the biggest deportation operation in American history.
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The best reforms would correct the real problems of overcriminalization and overincarceration, as well as removing all artificial barriers to building more homes.
The Republican presidential candidate ignores the lethal impact of the drug policies he avidly supports.
The Senate is an incompetent laughingstock regardless of what its members wear.
At least a dozen states have beefed up targeted incentives to coincide with handouts from the Commerce Department.
Thank Swifties, not Joe Biden, for Ticketmaster's consumer-friendly pricing policy.
"He owes it to you to defend his record where they added $7.8 trillion to the debt that set the stage for the inflation that we have."
The 'skeptical environmentalist' offers 12 low-cost, proven policies that he says could save 4.2 million lives and generate $1.1 trillion in new wealth every year.
Until Congress is willing to acknowledge that it makes no sense to send monthly checks to wealthy seniors, everything else will be on the chopping block.
The former president's lawyers argued that even the square footage of his apartment was a "subjective" judgment for which he cannot be held accountable.
The 'Skeptical Environmentalist' offers 12 low-cost, proven policies that he says would save 4.2 million lives and generate $1.1 trillion in new wealth every year.
"These policies are motivated by good intentions. But that doesn't mean that the consequences of these policies will turn out well."
The Department of Justice undervalues consumer preference in its latest antitrust efforts.
Prohibition is at the root of the hazards that have led to record numbers of opioid-related deaths.
An undercurrent of the book is that common people want whatever progressive intellectuals want them to want.
Among the allegations, the agency charges that Amazon Prime subscribers are incentivized to make the most of their subscription by buying more products.
The worst of the antitrust alarmism keeps proving untrue, as tech companies believed by some to be monopolies instead lose market share.
Less than 1 percent of American workers are union members in manufacturing jobs. But you'd never know that by watching our politics.
International students want to stay in the U.S. after graduation. Most of them can't.
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Removing high tariffs from foreign imports of baby formula would ease the supply shock of possible factory closures.
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Fiscal irresponsibility might eventually shut down the government, but at the moment it’s all for show.
Federal and New York City officials recently adopted policy changes on migrant work permits and zoning reform similar to those advocated here (though probably not because I advocated them!)..
An undercurrent of the book is that common people want whatever progressive intellectuals want them to want.
But will it solve the team's attendance woes? Probably not.
The film dramatizes the pandemic-era mania around GameStop and WallStreetBets, but misunderstands the realities of financial markets.
Don’t count on that promise to not hike taxes on “people making less than $400,000.”
They come at a critical time, as labor shortages persist and cities struggle to provide for newcomers.
Deena Ghazarian, CEO of consumer electronic company Austere, says the federal government's tariff exclusion process was "arcane, nontransparent, and highly uncertain."
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The big spending has fueled higher inflation, resulted in larger-than-projected deficits, and contributed to a record level of debt.
This measure will enable some 472,000 Venezuelans who arrived between 2021 and July 2023 to legally live and work in the US for up to 18 months.
Mayor Brandon Johnson should remember the sorry history of state-run supermarkets.
It's not the first time that has happened, but there are key differences about what happened this year.