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The Federal ‘Anti-Poverty’ Program that Taxes the Poor
Imagine you’re at the checkout line at the supermarket and the clerk asks how much income your family earns each year. Offended, you ask why that is any of her business. Read more on The Federal...
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The Cruelty of the Minimum Wage
If the goal is to improve the economic fortunes of the least-advantaged workers and families, says economist Don Boudreaux in this short animated video, then the minimum wage is a terrible idea. On his...
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10 Things You Should Know About the Minimum Wage Debate
Since 1938, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the first federal minimum wage in the U.S., a debate has raged about whether wage floors help or hurt workers. But thanks to a radical...
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Minimum Wage Advocates: ‘Sure a $15 Wage Will Increase Unemployment. So What?’
In almost every long-term clash over a cultural or political policy, there comes a point that I’d call the “comfort-level concession.” If the agenda of one side has been won — or has at least moved...
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Why We Should Oppose Both Skynet and Minimum Wage Increases
I oppose implementing Skynet and increasing minimum wage laws for the same reason: to forestall the robots. It’s probably inevitable that a T-1000 will return from the future to terminate John Connor....
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Does Free Trade Between Texas and California Cost Jobs?
There is something about an election year that causes otherwise rational people to lose all economic sense. Take, for example, the issue of free trade. The opposition to free trade on both sides of the...
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Unemployment for Black Male Teens Spikes. Are Minimum Wage Increases to Blame?
The most recent jobs report appeared to present a positive impression of our current employment situation. As the New York Times headline read, “Jobs Roar Back With Gain of 287,000 in June, Easing...
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The danger of looking past economics and raising the minimum wage
Photo courtesy of flickr This past week, one of the rising political figures in the Democratic Party, Mayor Peter Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana penned an op-ed for the South Bend Tribune arguing...
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The co-bots are coming to fast food factories
“We’re going to need to see your birth certificate,” the manager said, making a notation on my employment application, “But you’re hired. Show up a 10 a.m. on Thursday for training.” Read more on The...
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Few Americans who work full-time are in poverty
“No one in America should be working 40 hours a week and living below the poverty level,” said Joe Biden last year, “No one. No one.” That’s a sentiment I share with the vice president. And the good...
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The Christian Statesman and the Gospel to the Poor
Today at Mere Orthodoxy, I argue that the duty of the Christian statesman (or stateswoman) to the poor requires defending human rights, supplying urgent needs, reducing barriers to market entry, and...
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5 victims of the $15 minimum wage
As protests for a $15-per-hour minimum wage continue to rage across the country, cities like Seattle and states like California and New York have already begun to adopt such schemes. But alas, prices...
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The end of black conservatism?
On December 27, 2016, at the age of 86, Thomas Sowell published his last column. After publishing dozens of books and hundreds of columns, Dr. Sowell’s retirement may mark the beginning of the end of...
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10 Things you should know about the minimum wage
The minimum wage increased yesterday in nineteen states across the U.S.: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri,...
View ArticleWhy we should oppose both Skynet and minimum wage increases
Terminator 2: Judgment Day poster / TriStar Pictures I oppose implementing Skynet and increasing minimum wage laws for the same reason: to forestall the robots. It’s probably inevitable that a T-1000...
View ArticleTime for Catholics to reconsider their support for minimum wage laws
There has been much discussion this week surrounding the effects that Seattle’s minimum wage law has had on job creation (see PowerBlog posts here, here and here). Is it time for those Catholics who...
View ArticleMore victims of the $15 minimum wage
The deleterious side effects of the $15-per-hour minimum wage have continued to manifest across the country, affecting cities from Seattle to Minneapolis and states from California to New York. To...
View Article11 Things you should know about the minimum wage
As is becoming a common New Year’s theme, the minimum wage increased on Monday in more than a dozen states across the U.S. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 18 states increased the lowest...
View ArticleBernie Sanders, jobs, and what work really is
‘Bernie Sanders at a rally in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 26, 2015’ by Nick Solari CC BY-SA 2.0 Last month the Washington Post reported, “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will announce a plan for the...
View ArticleSen. Elizabeth Warren brings government muscle to corporate ‘accountability’
It was in Godfather III where Al Pacino as Michael Corleone said it first and said it best: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” Before we were able to put away our party hats after...
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