EconomyCommentary
Fewer Teens Are Working, Earning Money and Job Skills
As an older millennial, my high school and college summers were defined largely by the jobs I held. Not many of today’s teens can say… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Mamdani’s $30 Minimum Wage Plan for New York Is a Guaranteed Job Killer. Just Ask California.
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants a $30 minimum wage in New York by 2030, but California’s experience shows this flawed policy will… Read More
EconomyCommentary
LA’s Olympic-Sized Proposed Minimum Wage Hike Will Cost Jobs. Just Look at What California’s $20 Minimum Wage Has Done.
In a classic case of central planning, lawmakers in Los Angeles passed a bill in May to bring the minimum wage for hotel and airport… Read More
Hawley Blames ‘Woke Corporations’ for His New Bill to Double Federal Minimum Wage
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a bill on Tuesday that would more than double the federal minimum wage. Hawley’s bill, titled the Higher Wages for… Read More
EconomyNews
Anti-Union Group Says LA Lost 11K Hotel Jobs in 2024
THE CENTER SQUARE—The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union advocacy group, ran a full-page ad imploring the Los Angeles City Council to not adopt a… Read More
EconomyNews
Josh Hawley Confronts Witness Who Says Flooding Job Market With Illegal Aliens Helps Americans
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley confronted American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday about how… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Politics of Economic Redistribution, RIP
Whatever happened to the Democrats’ reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party promising… Read More
Voters in 4 States Will Decide on Raising Minimum Wage
Voters in four states will decide the fate of ballot questions Nov. 5 proposing to raise the minimum wage, while voters in two other states… Read More
SocietyCommentary
How California’s Paradise Became Our Purgatory
California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed… Read More
EconomyCommentary
$20 Minimum Wage Folly
California now leads the nation in imposing dumb wage laws. The state just raised the hourly minimum wage for fast food workers to $20. Gov…. Read More
Economy Commentary
Latest Job-Killing Policy Spells More Bad News for Californians
California’s list of public policy failures was already long, but hiking its minimum wage to $20 an hour for fast-food workers may belong at the top…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
DEI Cronyism and Woke Grifters
When ideology replaces meritocracy or provides immunity from the consequences of illegal behavior, systemic mediocrity follows. Under toxic National Socialism, Stalinism, and Maoism, millions of… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Liberals Love the Minimum Wage—Even Though It Hurts People They Claim to Love
On April 1, the new California $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast-food workers went into effect. In signing the bill, California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
1,200 Pizza Hut Drivers Among First Victims of California’s $20 Minimum Wage Folly
My foray into the workforce was a minimum-wage job making pizzas and washing dishes at Pizza Hut. The money I earned supported my spending as… Read More
EconomyCommentary
4 Ways Struggling Americans Would Bear Brutal Impact of $17 Minimum Wage
With 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, most U.S. households could use a raise. But an arbitrary, one-size-fits-all increase in the minimum wage imposed… Read More
EconomyCommentary
$17 Minimum Wage Would Exacerbate Rising Prices, Pushing Up Child Care Costs by 20%
As families are trying to cope with rising prices and declining real wages, a proposal from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va.,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Besides Lost Jobs, 3 More Ways Minimum Wage Laws Hurt Workers They’re Meant to Help
Many studies have documented the effect of minimum wage laws on lost jobs, including the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate that a $15-an-hour minimum wage would… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Biden’s California Dream
I was surprised to read (in the Los Angeles Times) that the Biden administration’s “role model for America” is … California! He wants to “Make… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Liberals’ Employer Tax Scheme in Lieu of $15 Minimum Wage Is as Crazy as It Is Convoluted
Despite repeated setbacks—including opposition from some Democrats—to liberal lawmakers’ deeply flawed push to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, proponents continue their desperate… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Job Creation, Not a $15 Minimum Wage, Will Reduce Poverty
Though the Senate parliamentarian rejected their efforts to include a $15-an-hour minimum wage in President Joe Biden’s so-called COVID-19 relief bill, Senate Democrats are scrambling… Read More
EconomyNews
Minimum Wage Increase Not Allowed in Biden Rescue Plan, Senate Rules Official Says
Democrats aren’t allowed to attach a provision increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour to their coronavirus relief package, a top Senate official… Read More
EconomyCommentary
$15 Minimum Wage Would Harm Those It’s Supposed to Help
As someone who grew up in poverty and worked much of her career to help others out of it, I know the importance of having… Read More
Economy Analysis
3 Actions by Biden Administration Could Cost Millions of Jobs
Three actions by the Biden administration could put nearly 10 million American jobs at risk, says Alfredo Ortiz, president and CEO of the Job Creators… Read More
EconomyNews
Here’s What $15 Minimum Wage Would Mean for This Frozen Yogurt Shop Owner
Some lawmakers’ push to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour is “truly maddening,” small business owner Stuart Hornsby says. Hornsby owns a… Read More
EconomyNews
Restaurant Owners, Workers Warn of ‘Unintended Consequences’ of $15 Minimum Wage
Restaurant owners and tipped employees alike are expressing concerns over a proposal to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour, with one going… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Unintended Consequence of $15 Minimum Wage: Higher Child Care Costs
Many families struggle to find child care, especially at a cost they can afford. A $15 federal minimum wage could make child care unattainable for… Read More
EconomyCommentary
6 Bleak Consequences From CBO’s Report on the $15 Minimum Wage
Rising incomes are a great thing, and it would be wonderful if all jobs paid at least $15 per hour. After all, that would reduce… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Biden’s COVID-19 ‘Rescue Plan’ Won’t Save Working Americans
Millions of Americans are still unemployed in the wake of COVID-19 shutdowns. Unfortunately, President Joe Biden’s so-called American Rescue Plan fails to provide targeted relief… Read More
EconomyNews
Will Biden’s Policies Lead to Job Losses? Here Are Possible Economic Impacts of 4 of Them.
President Joe Biden’s policies, announced in the first days of his administration, potentially could kill millions of jobs, according to estimates from both government and… Read More
EconomyCommentary
$15 Federal Minimum Wage: An Anchor on Struggling Businesses
President Joe Biden has proposed a nationwide $15 minimum wage as part of his so-called “American Rescue Plan.” Talk about bad timing: Raising labor prices… Read More
