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In conjunction with recent protests for a $15 minimum wage in the fast food industry, activist groups blogged and tweeted that “7 out of the top 10 lowest paying jobs” are in the food and hospitality industry. It’s far less shocking than it sounds. Census Bureau data show…

In this weekend’s Washington Post, former Obama administration economist and political appointee Betsey Stevenson has an op-ed titled “Five Myths about the Minimum Wage.” Instead of refuting myths about the subject, though, Stevenson packs her piece full of misleading and outright false statements that aren’t fitting of an academic…

In an episode of the Food Network’s TV show “Restaurant Impossible,” celebrity chef Robert Irvine visits a failing Mexican restaurant in New Hampshire. Irvine’s task is to advise the owners on how to better manage their restaurant to prevent it from going out of business. Upon inspection of the…

Last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren argued for a minimum wage increase even more extreme than what President Obama or Sen. Tom Harkin are asking for. She referenced a chart showing that the federal minimum wage would be $22 an hour – or roughly $45,000 a year – had it…

Proposals before Congress to increase the minimum wage by 39 percent to $10.10 will do little to reduce poverty while being actively harmful to the entry-level job market. Here are the facts on a $10.10 minimum wage. Click here to view a PDF version of the document.

Tomorrow, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is running a full-page ad in Roll Call on the importance of entry-level jobs and how minimum wage hikes reduce them. The ad highlights how Senator Harkin, Representative Miller, and President Obama have relied on unpaid interns themselves, even while demanding that private employers…

Acting Secretary of Labor Seth Harris has been visiting numerous cities around the country to rally support for President Obama’s minimum wage hike proposal, which would increase the current wage by 24 percent. The content of the speeches suggests he should have brought along an economics textbook for…

This week, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is running three full-page ads in POLITICO on the dangers of raising the minimum wage by 24 percent to $9 an hour.       The three ads will focus on the overwhelming economic consensus that minimum wage…

In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama called for a 24 percent increase in the minimum wage, from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour, arguing that “this single step would raise the incomes of millions of working families.” But economists haven’t been nearly as optimistic.

Yesterday, the New York Times editorialized (again) in favor of a higher minimum wage, making the following argument: “Over all, the argument that a higher wage will kill jobs has been debunked by a range of studies showing that a higher minimum wage boosts pay without…