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Many progressives include in their critique of free-market capitalism the notion that employers have so much power over workers that they can set wages at subsistence levels. Workers, according to…
Like employers in most states in the U.S., North Carolina businesses are facing several significant challenges in the labor market. Some of those challenges are particularly acute in North Carolina.…
Editors at Issues and Insights ask whether California’s political color is shifting away from deep blue. Two days after Donald Trump won the election, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a…
Susannah Luthi of the Washington Free Beacon reports an inconvenient fact for California’s left-wing governor. California’s fast food franchisees must hike their minimum wage to $20 an hour under a…
Dominic Pino writes for National Review Online about an interesting exemption from California’s latest minimum wage law. California’s minimum wage for fast-food restaurants is about to go to $20 per…
In a new article at the Journal of Public Economics, Zachary S. Fone, Joseph J. Sabia, and Resul Cesur report, “Using data from the 1998–2016 Uniform Crime Reports and a difference-in-differences approach, we find robust evidence that…
So-called “antiracists” typically advocate greater government intervention to combat racism. But such interventions can lower the cost paid by those discriminating. Government itself faces the lowest cost for discrimination, so…
If government derives its authority from the “consent of the governed,” how can the governed consent powers to government that they – the governed – themselves don’t have?
Kylee Zempel of the Federalist explores one impact of the ongoing labor shortage: some small business owners can’t retire. Aside from not being able to find someone to take over…
RALEIGH — For every North Carolinian to thrive, we must clear the pathway blocked by entrenched and historic impediments that narrow opportunity and hinder the escape from poverty. A new John Locke…
Locke report identifies pathway to equal justice and opportunity RALEIGH — For every North Carolinian to thrive, we must clear the pathway blocked by entrenched and historic impediments that narrow opportunity and…
Executive Summary Charlotte’s ranking in a 2014 study as 50th of 50 large cities for economic mobility ignited an effort among city leaders to understand the causes and propose solutions.…