Virginia Dodges Big Labor’s Bullets
This week, Virginia Republicans Glenn Youngkin, Winsome Sears, and Jason Miyares swept the governorship and statewide row offices, and Republicans appear to have retaken control of the lower house of…
Fight for 15
The Fight for $15 is Gone with the Wind
The Fight for $15 may soon be out of steam. Since its debut in 2012, the largely union-backed movement to raise minimum wages to $15 per hour has stolen headlines…
Minimum Wage Hike Could Cost Maryland County 47,000 Jobs by 2022
An independent study commissioned by Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., predicts some 47,000 jobs could be lost by 2022 if the County raises the minimum wage to $15…
Fight for Negative $125
The left-wing hotbed of Seattle (home to the United States’ only openly Trotskyist lawmaker, Councilor Kshama Sawant) was among the first cities to pass the $15 per hour…