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Last month, Pastor Jack Mosley was forced to close his Hillsdale, Michigan restaurant, Tastes of Life because Michigan’s recent minimum wage increase made it impossible for him to stay in business. Proponents of raising the minimum wage say that cases like Pastor Mosley’s don’t exist. The labor union-backed National…

With the exception of hardline minimum wage advocates and their message mavens at PR firm BerlinRosen, most rational onlookers admit that a minimum wage hikes cost jobs. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the nation’s Chief Financial Officers, the country’s largest private staffing firm, and even Bill Gates—all agree that…

Proponents of raising the minimum wage often point to Scandinavian countries like Denmark as models for American labor policy. But the devil is in the details. Take this week’s New York Times profile of the comparatively high Danish minimum wage, for example. The authors ask, if the Danes can…

Our recent Wall Street Journal op-ed highlights some of the problems with the notion that the CEO/employee pay gap is too big, a popular lament from union-backed groups who argue that the gap is justification for increasing the minimum wage. In the piece, we highlighted the case of Yum…

When New York legislators passed an increase in the state’s minimum wage in 2013, they demurred on whether to increase the tipped minimum wage. A three-member Wage Board was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo earlier this year to consider this question, and the board is now touring the…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has been a vocal proponent for a higher minimum wage, and not just the $10.10 figure that President Obama has supported. In a commentary for ABC News written earlier this year, Warren argued that if the “minimum wage had kept up with increases in productivity, it…

This fall, Nebraskans will vote on an initiative that would raise the state’s minimum wage to $9 an hour by 2016. Proponents claim the wage hike will bring with it many benefits and few consequences. The labor union-backed Nebraskans for Better Wages, for instance, argues that it will help “restore…

The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), which is generously funded by the AFL-CIO and the SEIU, is a staunch advocate for increasing the minimum wage. CEPR’s senior economist, John Schmitt, has been a loyal foot solider in the minimum wage battle for years, writing on the topic in…

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the 2009 federal minimum wage increase to $7.25, and the network of labor unions and advocacy groups who are promoting another one aren’t wasting the occasion. But in their campaign to promote the supposed benefits of a wage hike, they’ve left out…

On July 1st, California’s minimum wage rose to $9 an hour, the first stage of a two-part increase to $10. Elsewhere, localities in the state have their sights set even higher, topping out with a $15 ballot proposal in San Francisco. These wage hikes couldn’t come at a worse time…