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House Passes $15 Minimum Wage Bill
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Pennsylvania Passes Clean Slate Act, Will Seal More Than 30 Million Criminal Records
The law will reopen critical channels to employment and housing that might otherwise be closed.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Unemployment Is Low 'Because Everyone Has Two Jobs,' Which Is Not How Unemployment Rates Work
"Capitalism has not always existed in the world and it will not always exist in the world."
Report: California's $15 Minimum Wage Will Destroy 400,000 Jobs
A loss of opportunities equal to about four percent of the workforce.
Shutting Out Foreign Workers Would Cost American Jobs
History suggests that if the government chokes off the supply of foreign labor, American workers won't step in to reap rewards.
The Myth of Technological Unemployment
If the nightmare of technological unemployment were true, it would already have happened, repeatedly and massively.
Minneapolis City Council Ignores Damning Seattle Study, Passes Its Own $15 Minimum Wage
Workers and business owners have pleaded with council members to consider the cost of their action.
St. Louis Fights Reality, Boosts Minimum Wage
Job losses and price increases are on the horizon.
Robot Tax = Protectionism Against Progress
Taxing automation would slow down progress and ultimately make most of us poorer than we would otherwise be.
$15 Minimum Wage Could Kill Up to 5 Million Jobs
Forward comrades to the unemployment lines and soup kitchens!
Employed People Prefer to Keep the Money They Earn, Says New Study
Does unemployment teach people that the rewards of life are largely due to luck?
$15 Minimum Wage Follies in California and New York
Good intentions, but a near total failure as an anti-poverty policy
Heaven Help California's Non-Urban Cities Under a $15 Minimum Wage
Lessons in how to make double-digit unemployment permanent.
Economically Left-Behind Americans Vote Trump
Trump's margins of victory were considerably larger in distressed counties than in more prosperous counties.
How the Federal Government Betrayed Millennials
Bad economic policies hurt young Americans the most.
Is Forcing Businesses to Pay Overtime to More Workers Really a Brilliant Idea? No Frigging Way.
Evidence suggests that tightening overtime rules could kill jobs
RESOLVED: TECHNOLOGY WILL TAKE ALL OUR JOBS
Ronald Bailey Will Argue Against the Motion at Future Tense on Thursday, June 4
To Help People Keep Their Jobs During Recessions, It's the Uncertainty, Stupid
Good government measures can reduce unemployment during a recession.
Ronald Bailey Debunks New Minimum Wage Hocus Pocus
Magical thinking that hurts job seekers
The Employment Benefits of Cutting Unemployment Benefits
Does a new NBER study prove that cutting unemployment benefits increases employment?
We Don't Really Need More Jobs
What people are really after is not jobs, but the incomes that come with them.
Unemployment Numbers Improve, But Are Still Dreadful for Millennials
A generally encouraging jobs report was released Thursday, inspiring some confidence that the limping economy was recovering.
February Jobs Report: US Added 175,000 Jobs, Unemployment Rose
The unemployment rate increased from 6.6 percent to 6.7 percent
Unemployment Is Freedom Under Obamacare
For an estimated $1.2 trillion over the next decade, we can subsidize your freedom.
White House Pushing Back over Obamacare CBO Report
Analysis says it will add to deficit an cost jobs
Number of Americans Filing Jobless Claims Falls For Second Week In a Row
Fell 2,000 to 326,000
