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Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute challenges a popular narrative about Americansā savings for retirement. If there is any point that unites Americans in these divided times, it is…
Chuck Ross of the Washington Free Beacon highlights labor unions’ influence on the Biden Labor Departmentās messaging. A Department of Labor agency that touts the “importance” of labor unions to…
Opponents of school choice claim that private schools are unaccountable because they donāt have to satisfy every testing mandate required of traditional public schools, yet private schools are subject to…
Government efforts to make things āaffordableā instead typically make things worse. Prices are rising the fastest in industries receiving the largest government efforts to make them affordable. Programs to make…
Andrew Biggs writes at National Review Online about a persistent myth surrounding public school teachers. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) ā a liberal think tank affiliated with teachersā…
Estimates vary, but nearly half of North Carolina workers earn less than $15/hr. Hiking the minimum wage that high would disemploy an estimated 367,000 North Carolinians.
Jason Richwine and Andrew Biggs take on Economic Policy Institute claims that the nationās public-school teachers were underpaid by a record 21.4 percent in 2018.Ā They write, To measure the…
Question: When is it acceptable for a Republican president to openly brag about liking taxes? Answer: When the taxes are directed toward American consumers and are called tariffs. Last week,…
The negative impacts of the minimum wage is one of the items about whichĀ economistsĀ are inĀ greatestĀ agreement. Why don't news reports on minimum-wage issues mention that?
What the new study by Neumark and Shupe describe is a snowball effect: less work, fewer skills acquired, less overall employability, fewer later job opportunities, lower overall lifetime earnings.
Howard Husock reviews for Barron’s a new book, The Color of Law, that explores government’s role in promoting housing segregation. In the conventional view, if government ever failed in the…
Bad consequences from Seattle's minimum wage increase are entirely consistent with mainstream economics, and completely opposite from the unschooled promises of politicians, media, and demagogues.