minimum wage

Philanthropy
Stephen Moore’s 2017 Call for Philanthropy Reform in The Wall Street Journal
After describing several tax benefits of which those who create private charitable foundations can take advantage, conservative economics commentator Stephen Moore writes in a November 23, 2017, Wall Street Journal…
by Michael E. Hartmann on November 13, 2024

Organization Trends
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: “Equal Chances” Fallacy
“Social justice” has become all the rage in academia, the mainstream media, and corporate boardrooms across America, spurred on by the violent Black Lives Matter movement and pseudo-thinkers like Robin…
by David Hogberg on April 8, 2024

Organization Trends
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: Racial Fallacies
"They [progresssives] all believe in a big role for government. They believe that elites like themselves should be preempting other people’s decisions through the power of government. They are very…
by David Hogberg on April 8, 2024

Organization Trends
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: Knowledge Fallacies
"They [progresssives] believe that the most consequential knowledge is concentrated in people like themselves. They want to preempt the decisions of other people because they feel that they can make…
by David Hogberg on April 8, 2024

Organization Trends
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: Affirmative Action
"The pandemic, like affirmative action, is another case of third parties setting priorities for other people. Now, it’s good that we tried to save lives during the pandemic. But once…
by David Hogberg on April 8, 2024

Labor Watch
A Curious Carveout in Big Labor’s Golden State
California’s fast-food minimum wage law has a loophole that seemed suspiciously closely designed to exempt Panera Bread from a sectoral-bargaining law demanded by the SEIU. Newsom and the SEIU have…
by Michael Watson on March 11, 2024

Labor Watch
Minimum Wages: To Raise, or Not to Raise?
Like most policy debates, the one on minimum wages is framed by many as a simple issue of growing vs. shrinking the economy, inflating vs deflating wages, and creating vs.
by Hayden Ludwig on September 27, 2017

Labor Watch
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…
by Hayden Ludwig on August 10, 2017

Regulation
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…
by Daniel Lauer on August 3, 2017

Regulation
Emails Show Seattle’s Coordination with Activists in Minimum Wage Research
Last month, researchers from the University of Washington informed the city of Seattle that despite the best efforts of the Service Employees International Union they had failed to repeal…
by Michael Watson on July 27, 2017