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August 13, 2015

Seattle’s Minimum Wage Experiment is Already Failing

Last year when Seattle announced it was raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, I made four predictions about how the policy would affect the city over the next three years. Continue Reading...

August 03, 2015

How is that $70,000 Minimum Wage Working Out? Not So Well

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. What they don’t often mention is that, like a parade route, both sides of that road are crowded with well-wishers cheering you on. Continue Reading...

July 23, 2015

Minimum Wage OR Minimum Unemployment?

Various forms of government intervention negatively affects economic vitality in many ways, however few policies impact the market as directly as wage laws. The $15 minimum wage law in Seattle dramatically influences determinants of business owners’ hiring practices. Continue Reading...

May 28, 2015

Unions Lobbied for a $15 Minimum Wage—Now They Want an Exemption for Unions

In every major city that is increasing the minimum wage (Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles), labor unions have been at the forefront of the change. For example, in an op-ed for the Huffington Post titled “Raise Los Angeles’ Minimum Wage and Enforce It,” Rusty Hicks, a labor leader in L.A. Continue Reading...

May 26, 2015

Why Don’t City Governments Increase Minimum Wages Now Instead of in 2020?

Many of the current debates about minimum wage revolve around whether such laws increase unemployment. Such disputes often make it appear that there is a lack of consensus on the issue when, in fact, there is broad-based agreement. Continue Reading...

May 11, 2015

Raising The Minimum Wage Is The Right Thing To Do: Wherein Robert Reich Gets It All Wrong

Robert Reich seems to be a smart man. He served under three presidents, and now is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Continue Reading...

April 30, 2015

Increase In Minimum Wage? $11; Losing Your Job? Priceless

Seattle has now mandated an increase in minimum wage. The economic ramifications are being felt, especially throughout the restaurant industry. Several Seattle restaurants have done away with tipping, but are adding a mandatory service charge on a customer’s bill. Continue Reading...

April 28, 2015

Who Earns Minimum Wage And Why It’s Okay

Do you remember trying to find that first job? You’d be told you needed experience by an would-be employer, but no one would hire you so you could get the experience. Continue Reading...

April 15, 2015

Minimum Wage, Adulthood And Choices

“I’m tired all the time.” That’s the lament of one of the working mothers in the video below (from The Guardian), as she describes her life working minimum wage jobs. She and the other women featured are all fighting for an increase in pay to $15 per hour (like Seattle’s recent mandate.) Continue Reading...

April 15, 2015

Why the $70,000 Minimum Wage is Doomed to Fail

When the city of Seattle recently voted to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, some critics (like me) snarked that if $15 would help workers why not raise it to $20, $25, or even $30 an hour. Continue Reading...

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