Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage is Hurting the Workers It's Intending to Help
A new study reminds us that the law of supply and demand still applies to labor
A new study reminds us that the law of supply and demand still applies to labor
Is this the only policy proposal Tom Paine, Huey Long, Milton Friedman, Timothy Leary, and Sam Altman can agree on?
Theresa May wants to go after seniors' homes to pay for their long-term care
This week's fake outrage confuses welfare spending with equal government protection and blames Trump.
It is making even Canadians act more ruthlessly rather than benevolently
It is feeding forces of nativism in the West, including in compassionate Canada
Ronald Bailey traveled back to his familial home to find out what went wrong in Appalachia.
A Reason writer returns to his family's home to investigate
The future economy is going to be self-managed, says former SEIU leader Andy Stern. Get out of its way-but give us a universal basic income.
What were the actual effects of the NYPD's Juvenile Robbery Intervention Program?
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to force homeless people into shelters.
The basic-income scheme is meant to save Finland money and reduce the country's high unemployment rate.
Proposed rule treats poor people like children and exposes government paternalism at its most naked.
This is class-based paternalism in action.
Attaching attention and moral status to "victimhood" is changing the character of the nation.
Public defenders increasingly act like social workers, and welfare providers increasingly act like law enforcement.
Lyndon Johnson's war on crime
Government intervention is never the panacea some on the left want to believe.
Defenders of the status quo push back against a Colorado proposal to decriminalize truancy.
Median household incomes would have been double: Roughly $100,000 rather than $50,000
Policy prescriptions that offer a rewarmed mix of old and new liberal ideas
New conservatives have given up on scaling back the welfare state
Americans are not yet that dependent upon the providence of their sovereign for their existence. But don't blame the president for lack of trying.
Both want to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). But Ryan's plan would reform the system rather than grow it.
Medicare may be making mistakes 20% of the time, school lunch programs 15%, and the Earned Income Tax Credit 25%.
Should libertarians support proposals to scrap the current welfare regime and replace it with a basic income guarantee for American citizens?
What's worthwhile in the Wisconsin congressman's proposals, and what's not
The President's new College Scorecard will jack up federal taxpayer subsidies without improving accountability or reducing the soaring costs of tuition.
Civil society vs. the law
The shaky case for government-imposed teen curfews
The pros and cons of a welfare idea championed by liberals and libertarians alike