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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 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 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
The July jobs report shows the weak May report was an aberration and the economy continues to strengthen. → Read More
Raising minimum wages to $15 an hour has quickly gone from a fringe idea to a serious policy proposal. → Read More
Americans shouldn’t read too much into May’s discouraging job numbers or June’s hopeful ones. → Read More
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 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
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
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
Privatizing America’s Air Traffic Control system is long overdue. → Read More
Economists had begun to get optimistic about labor market growth. The April employment report suggests they should temper their expectations. → Read More
The wounds from the Great Recession remain significant. → Read More
It is no accident that small business owners report government regulations and red tape as one of their greatest problems. → Read More
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
Although the economy has improved over the past year, the labor market remains considerably weaker than before the recession. → Read More
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 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 Bureau of Labor Statistics’ December employment report showed robust labor market growth. → Read More
Employers added 211,000 net new jobs, while the unemployment rate remained constant. → Read More