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Past articles by James:

The August Jobs Report Was So-So. That’s Bad News.

Little in the August employment report showed the economy slowing down, but nothing showed it picking up either. → Read More

How $15-per-Hour Minimum Starting Wages Would Affect Each State

How $15-per-Hour Minimum Starting Wages Would Affect Each State Researchers have paid little attention to the state-by-state impact of a $15-per-hour minimum wage. Such a measure was so far from the policy mainstream that few economists bothered considering it. Now, several cities and states have required $15-per-hour starting wages, prompting the need to consider the policy’s effects on jobs… → Read More

Why It Is Time to Reform Compensation for Federal Employees

Why It Is Time to Reform Compensation for Federal Employees The federal government pays its employees more than they would earn in the private sector. Economic studies consistently find that federal employees enjoy both higher pay and substantially higher benefits than comparable private-sector workers. Federal pay is inflated because market forces do not discipline it. In the private sector,… → Read More

Encouraging News in July Jobs Report

The July jobs report shows the weak May report was an aberration and the economy continues to strengthen. → Read More

Raising Minimum Starting Wages to $15 per Hour Would Eliminate Seven Million Jobs

Raising minimum wages to $15 an hour has quickly gone from a fringe idea to a serious policy proposal. → Read More

The Noise Behind the New Jobs Report

Americans shouldn’t read too much into May’s discouraging job numbers or June’s hopeful ones. → Read More

Jobs Report Numbers at Odds With Obama's Economic Spin

Obama has overseen the weakest recovery of the post-war era, and this jobs report illustrates just how fragile this recovery has been. → Read More

The Key Economic Facts Obama’s Recovery Narrative Ignores

The president argued his administration deserves credit for the recovery thus far. If so, he has engineered the weakest recovery of the post-war era. → Read More

California’s Unprecedented Minimum Wage Increase Will Hurt Vulnerable Workers

By 2023 the minimum wage in California will be $15 an hour. Adjusted for inflation, this will be higher than any in U.S. history. → Read More

Obama's Overtime Rule Tried at IBM, and It Didn't Work

The Labor Department says this regulation will help workers. It is much more likely to make balancing work and family even more difficult. → Read More

Union Giveaways in Air Traffic Control Act Set A Bad Precedent

Privatizing America’s Air Traffic Control system is long overdue. → Read More

Mixed News in April Jobs Report

Economists had begun to get optimistic about labor market growth. The April employment report suggests they should temper their expectations. → Read More

March Employment Report Shows Labor Market Growing

The wounds from the Great Recession remain significant. → Read More

This Company Wants to Make It Harder for You to File Taxes

It is no accident that small business owners report government regulations and red tape as one of their greatest problems. → Read More

Minimum Wage Hike in D.C. Will Stifle Job Creation

A recent poll of D.C. business owners found more than half of them plan to eliminate jobs if the minimum wage rises to $15. → Read More

Long-Term Unemployment Remains High Despite Strong February Job Gains

Although the economy has improved over the past year, the labor market remains considerably weaker than before the recession. → Read More

How Oregon's $14.50 Minimum Wage Will Hurt Those It’s Supposed to Help

The Oregon legislature can force businesses to pay their employees higher wages. But it cannot force them to hire those employees in the first place. → Read More

To Form a More (Responsive) Union

To Form a More (Responsive) Union To understand why Rebecca Friedrichs, a school teacher in California's Orange County, will soon have her case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, you have to understand something about her union: It would not even survey its members. Friedrich's school district started losing money in the recession. It had to either lay off teachers or trim everyone's pay.… → Read More

The Economy Is Still Hurting, Despite Strong December Jobs Report

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ December employment report showed robust labor market growth. → Read More

November Jobs Report Shows Positive Growth

Employers added 211,000 net new jobs, while the unemployment rate remained constant. → Read More