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CATO Institute: New Research on The Minimum Wage and the Great Recession
During the last part of the previous decade, the average effective minimum wage rose by nearly 30 percent across the United States. New research from Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Wither analyzes the...
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Seattle’s Socialist Experiment: When it Comes to the Impacts of a High...
Erin Shannon writes: This sign in a Seattle nail salon is a perfect illustration of the unintended consequences of forcing employers to pay an aritificially high minimum wage. Contrary to the claim...
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How Much Renters Need to Make to Afford a Two-Bedroom Apartment in Each State
Reid Mene reports: A recent poll conducted by The National Low Income Housing Coalition compared the average renter’s wage in each U.S. state to the wage needed to afford an average two-bedroom...
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[VIDEO] Trade-Offs of a High Minimum Wage
Watch WPC’s new short video on the undeniable trade-offs of a high minimum wage through the eyes of employees and small business owners in Washington state. Filed under: Economics, Mediasphere,...
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‘Hard Times': Stunning Development for Utopian Seattle CEO Who Set Firm’s...
Price said McMaster and Moran, or even critic Rush Limbaugh, the talk show host, were not wrong. The Seattle CEO who reaped a publicity bonanza when he boosted the salaries of his employees to a...
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Minimum Wage Effect? January to June Job Losses for Seattle Area Restaurants...
Seattle minimum wage hike is getting off to a pretty bad start. In June of last year, the Seattle city council passed a $15 minimum wage law to be phased in over time, with the first increase to $11 an...
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Revealed: Democracy Alliance Member Nick Hanauer Crafted Seattle Minimum Wage
Hanauer is now at the center of a lawsuit filed by the International Franchise Association. Bill McMorris reports: Radical venture capitalist Nick Hanauer served on a city advisory committee that...
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Old School Automats are Back, Courtesy of the Minimum Wage
From the New York Times: There’s a new quinoa restaurant in San Francisco — yes, quinoa restaurants are a thing in San Francisco, so that’s not what’s noteworthy. At this restaurant, customers order,...
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Brit Hume: Claim That Congress Gives Obama Everything He Wants Is ‘Utter...
Filed under: Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, White House Tagged: Barack Obama, Brit Hume, Congress, Conservatives, Filibuster, Freedom Caucus, Gun control, Kevin McCarthy, Minimum...
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Seattle Wage Hike Off To ‘Pretty Bad Start’
Connor D. Wolf reports: Seattle, which recently passed a $15 minimum wage, has seen the loss of 700 restaurant jobs despite the rest of the state seeing huge increases, according to a Wednesday report....
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The Truth About the Minimum Wage
From the Foundation for Economic Education: People don’t like to think that anyone’s labor is worth less than the minimum wage. Someone might end up flipping burgers for $5.00 an hour. You might think...
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Socialist Utopia Setback: Seattle’s $13 Minimum Wage Led To Drop Of $1,500 In...
Ben Shapiro writes: Remember that time Seattle’s socialist city council member Kshama Sawant pressed for the city to increase its minimum wage to $15 per hour? I actually debated Sawant on the issue; I...
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Science Shopping: Seattle Socialists Commission New Minimum-Wage Study After...
City officials stopped funding the UW team when they didn’t like the results. Dan Springer reports: When a University of Washington study came out this week showing Seattle’s minimum wage has cost...
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[VIDEO] Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage is Hurting the Workers It’s Intending to Help
Three years ago, the city of Seattle voted to gradually raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour in the name of human decency and basic fairness. Several cities, including New York and Los Angeles, have...
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Many eateries are seeing their profits squeezed, or worse, as wages rise. The amount of vacant food service space in Manhattan has never been higher, according to real estate experts. Lisa Fickenscher...
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