Worry About Inflation, Not Immigration
High inflation can harm low-income families. Immigration, not so much.
High inflation can harm low-income families. Immigration, not so much.
Growing evidence confirms that barriers to immigration make us all worse off.
Governments at the state, local, and federal levels can obstruct our pursuit of happiness and at times even jeopardize our safety.
States that already had lower unemployment rates in May are more likely to have announced plans for ending the bonus unemployment payments.
The economy is broadly healthy and that it's benefiting nearly everyone—including the lower-income households who need it most.
Workers say they've had their hours cut and lost other benefits, such as health insurance. If only someone could have predicted that.
The reason: Immigrants help increase labor demand as well as labor supply.
Politicians can’t repeal the laws of supply and demand.
But the campaign workers complaining about their union-negotiated salaries are being hypocritical too.
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.
And they've made the U.S. economy 9 percent smaller than it would it otherwise be.
'Immigration represents an opportunity rather than a threat to our economy and to American workers.'
New study finds that workers living in cities that welcome immigrants generally earn higher wages.
"The reality is patriarchy."
Want to change the rules? Go ask Congress.
But low-skilled workers are the ones who suffer when government makes it more expensive to employ people.
Because it would have hurt an already anemic economy. Sound familiar?
Is Donald Trump ever right about anything?
Still relying on a misleading statistic.
Inflation-adjusted wages haven't gone up, the cost of living has for the most part gone down.
Success is seen as a disaster when you care more about income inequality than mobility.
"America's largest civic experiment to close the gender wage gap" is launching in Boston. It won't work.
Pay freeze over, for government types anyway.
Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson makes the case.
Power to the individual, not to the state!
Or, how to prove your beliefs don't work in the real world.