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Two new studies confirm that a higher minimum wage would not be an unalloyed gain for low-wage workers. For their study, David Neumark and Peter Shirley “assembled the entire set…
On October 12, Public Schools First NC and Great Schools In Wake are hosting an event, Impact of Privatizing Public Schools: A Crisis in the Making. Here is the description…
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online addresses the recent hubbub involving President Trump and fast food. To the extent that the United States has a self-conscious proletariat, that proletariat is…
Last night, WRAL aired “Grading Teacher Pay,” a short documentary examining various aspects of the teacher pay debate in North Carolina. I posted some thoughts on the documentary here. My…
Fact checking WRAL’s teacher pay documentary
Steve Forbes devotes a Forbes magazine column to the attack on large-denomination paper money. GAINING ATTENTION these days is the idea of abolishing high denominations of the dollar and the…
James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation explains for National Review Online readers the flaws in the argument that a $15 minimum wage would raise fast-food prices by just 4 percent.…
View in your browser. Under an executive model based on community organizing, the process for achieving political goals involves astroturfed spectacles set up for overhype by willing media, to heighten…
Here is Don Boudreaux’s entire post from Cafe Hayek: Last night on “60 Minutes” (HT IndianaJim) President Obama said to interviewer Steve Croft about tax cuts: Steve, the math is…
I don’t really care what the president eats –– even if his public eating habits are conspicuously at odds with the federally funded and approved “My Plate” food guide being…
Thanks to Chris Fitzsimon of N.C. Policy Watch, I owe a friend a steak dinner. I bet it would take at least six weeks for the Left to pull out…
My heart breaks for Michael Lindsay-Calkins, whose wife and son were killed last week at a railroad crossing in Efland. The News & Observer reports the Highway Patrol is saying…