minimum wage

Legislative action that purports to achieve an economic goal directly is doomed to failure, both in its stated intention and, more broadly, in the collateral damage it will cause

We increasingly live in a new “dark age” of economic ignorance, and even stupidity.

Bernie Sanders is having trouble with his unionized–and apparently underpaid–labor force.

Like a train wreck in slow motion, the Illinois General Assembly is moving to fulfill Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s campaign promise to increase the statewide minimum wage to $10, $12 and then $15 per hour over the next few years.

“Back when I was a kid, a minimum-wage job could support a family of three. Today, a full-time minimum-wage job in America won’t keep a mama and a baby out of poverty.”

Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft present episode #153 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week’s episode features work from The Property and Environment Research Center, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and the Center of the American Experiment. 

Monday was National Waitstaff Day, a time to appreciate the estimated 2.25 million waitstaff working in America’s 542,000 eating and drinking establishments, and this year, the U.S. Census Bureau is urging Americans to “add a smile to the tip” as they dine out.

Most of us both value and take for granted the ability to make decisions about our own lives.

Local lawmakers in Seattle, Washington and state lawmakers in Massachusetts are considering or have passed new surcharges on higher-income households in their jurisdictions, squeezing successful members of society even more in the name of “fairness.”

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis popularized the phrase “laboratories of democracy”: “(T)o describe how a ‘state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.’”

If the government dictates an increase in the cost of labor, employers have two options. They can raise prices, or they can try to get by with fewer workers. 

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #95 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Manhattan Institute and the American Enterprise Institute.

Arizona is one of three states — Maine and South Dakota are the others — that will ask voters in November to approve a minimum-wage increase.