Don't Expect Unions To Make a Comeback
Despite the recent win against Amazon and Joe Biden's full backing, Big Labor is fading because workers are making progress without unions.
Wages
Two California Lawmakers Want To Mandate 32-Hour Workweeks
It’s great when innovations let us work less, but top-down, inflexible government demands are not the way to get there.
Price Controls Would Make a Dire Economic Situation Worse
Certain politicians would do well to learn that inflation is not caused by corporate "greed."
Blame Insane Government Spending for Inflation
Some want to solve the problem with subsidies for gas, housing, child care, and more. That only risks greater stagnation.
When 'Pro-Worker' Policies Hurt Workers
Both Republicans and Democrats want to address poverty with big government.
New York's Mayor Warned That COVID Shutdowns Hurt Low-Skill Workers. He's Absolutely Right. Twitter Got Mad Anyway.
Phony outrage is used to deflect from bad policy decisions.
Worry About Inflation, Not Immigration
High inflation can harm low-income families. Immigration, not so much.
When We Reject Immigrants, We Reject Trillions of Dollars in Wealth
Growing evidence confirms that barriers to immigration make us all worse off.
The U.S. Has Strayed Far From Its Founding Ideals
Governments at the state, local, and federal levels can obstruct our pursuit of happiness and at times even jeopardize our safety.
California, New York Have the Most To Gain From Ending Bonus Unemployment Benefits. They Probably Won't.
States that already had lower unemployment rates in May are more likely to have announced plans for ending the bonus unemployment payments.
Michael Strain Wants You To Believe in the American Dream
The economy is broadly healthy and that it's benefiting nearly everyone—including the lower-income households who need it most.
Target Employees Won The 'Fight For $15' but Weren't Ready for the Trade-Offs
Workers say they've had their hours cut and lost other benefits, such as health insurance. If only someone could have predicted that.
The Nationalist Right Is Wrong: More Immigration Doesn't Reduce Wages
The reason: Immigrants help increase labor demand as well as labor supply.
What Bernie Sanders Gets Wrong About the Minimum Wage
Politicians can’t repeal the laws of supply and demand.
Bernie Sanders Gets a Lesson in What a $15 Minimum Wage Would Mean
But the campaign workers complaining about their union-negotiated salaries are being hypocritical too.
Should Paul McCartney and Other Billionaires Be 'Abolished'?
Progressive populists have decided making a lot of money is prima facie evidence of criminality and that inequality is the cardinal sin of our age. Nope.
Zoning Laws in New York, San Francisco, and San Jose Cut Americans' Wages by $8,775
And they've made the U.S. economy 9 percent smaller than it would it otherwise be.
Immigrant Diversity Boosts Native-Born Wages: New at Reason
New study finds that workers living in cities that welcome immigrants generally earn higher wages.
Welcoming Immigrants Means Higher Wages
'Immigration represents an opportunity rather than a threat to our economy and to American workers.'
Instructor Tells Student She Must 'Look at Feminist Sources,' Shouldn't Debunk the Wage Gap
"The reality is patriarchy."
Judge: Obama Administration's New Overtime Rules an Overreach
Want to change the rules? Go ask Congress.
Ivanka Trump Suggests Her Father Favors Subsidized Child Care and Mandatory Paid Family Leave
But low-skilled workers are the ones who suffer when government makes it more expensive to employ people.
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?
Trump's H-1B Visa Zero-Sum Thinking Will Make American Workers Poorer
Is Donald Trump ever right about anything?
Obama Takes New Steps to Fix Gender Pay Gap: Why That's Still a Mistake
Still relying on a misleading statistic.
Cost of Living vs. Wage Stagnation in the United States, 1979-2015
Inflation-adjusted wages haven't gone up, the cost of living has for the most part gone down.
The Middle Class Is Shrinking! Because They're Getting Rich!
Success is seen as a disaster when you care more about income inequality than mobility.
Boston to Spend $1.5 Million Encouraging Ladies to 'Lean In' At Work
"America's largest civic experiment to close the gender wage gap" is launching in Boston. It won't work.
Federal Employees' Wages Growing Faster Than Everybody Else's
Pay freeze over, for government types anyway.
Crony Capitalists and Special Interests Dragging Down U.S. Economic Growth
Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson makes the case.
$15 Minimum-Wage Movement Highlights Difference Between Progressives and Radicals
Power to the individual, not to the state!
Socialists Push For $20 Minimum Wage But Won't Pay Workers That Much
Or, how to prove your beliefs don't work in the real world.
