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Today, the Employment Policies Institute is running a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal  illustrating the consequences of a $15 minimum wage. It coincides with union-organized fast food strikes that are expected to take place today in at least 35 major cities. There’s an old saying – “be…

It’s not surprising that low-margin businesses facing higher mandated labor costs often opt for cost-saving (and labor-reducing) changes to stay in the black. What is surprising is how some proponents of a minimum wage hike have unwittingly pointed to these changes as proof that mandates are a good thing. Liberal website ThinkProgress — whose parent organization, the Center for American…

Recently, the SEIU orchestrated walk-outs at fast food restaurants across the country. Among the protestors’ demands was that they start making $15 per hour – more than double the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. In support of this demand, labor-backed policy groups rehashed a frequent complaint about the…

Common sense tells us that some seemingly good ideas can actually have dire consequences. For New Jersey, the “good idea” that isn’t comes in the form of a proposal to amend the state constitution to raise the minimum wage — and then put further annual raises on autopilot. Today, the…

Bloggers went wild yesterday over a new “study” from Kansas college student Arnobio Morelix, who claims that McDonald’s could double every employee’s salary and benefits and only increase the price of a Big Mac by 68 cents. It’s tough to evaluate the validity of this claim, since it…

On Monday, labor-supported activist groups are staging strikes at restaurants in major cities across the country to demand a $15 per hour wage—a more than 100 percent increase over the current federal entry-level wage. In response to these walk-outs, the Employment Policies Institute is running a full-page ad in USA…

On Wednesday, July 24th, union-backed activist groups are staging a “day of action” to push for a higher minimum wage. These rallies get only half the story right: A day of action is needed, but it’s needed for the victims of a higher minimum wage. The labor unions who are…

Does a bad idea become a good one when you pair it with a fancy chart? The labor-backed Economic Policy Institute (EcPI) seems to think so. Recently, it rehashed the discredited idea of a minimum wage tied to economy-wide productivity, complete with a fancy chart to make the concept seem rational. …

Seemingly good ideas can have unintended consequences. Just ask a sunburned vacationer who decided to take a leisurely nap on the beach. For New Jersey, the “good idea” that isn’t comes in the form of a proposal to amend the state constitution to raise the minimum wage and put it…

Many of our elected members of Congress are once again abiding by the “do as I say, not as I do” approach. Roughly 97 percent of the Congressional sponsors of the “Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013” and the “Healthy Families Act” hypocritically fail to pay their employee interns any…