As the state looks to a post-Covid-19 future, what economic policies can help us get back on our feet?
The only way to boost wages is to boost worker productivity.
More research has provided further evidence that minimum wage hikes are bad public policy.
Belief in minimum wage hikes is about as close to belief in Milton Friedman's mythical 'free lunch' as you will find. They seem to offer the prospect of benefits for…
If you want to help low paid workers its simple; you just vote in politicians who promise to make it more expensive to buy their labor and employers will just…
Keith Ellison has been a vocal supporter of the campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15. Sadly, he won't put his money where his mouth is.
Once again, evidence shows what theory predicts. Raising the price of something, in this case labor, increases the demand for substitutes, in this case machines.
It's often said that the evidence in the minimum wage debate is clear. And it is.
Newly released emails show that Seattle's city council worked with the supposedly independent authors of a study which concluded that its $15 minimum wage had not hurt low paid workers.
Seattle's council has pulled the plug on a minimum wage project because it didn't like the results. The city's low paid will pay the price of educating its ignorant leaders
We all want to see higher wages and workers with more money to spend. What are the things we should be looking at to really accomplish that?
Maybe protesting for a $15 wage is more fun than upskilling to get it. Maybe voting for it is easier. It is certainly less effective.
It is harder for students to pay their way through college these days. But that is because of skyrocketing fees, not falling wages
Economics has laws, and they will be enforced whatever politicians think they can decree
A leading 'liberal' economist has clear views on the results of minimum wage hikes
As price of labor went up, people bought less of it — as standard economic theory predicts. This op-ed appeared June 29, 2017 in the Star Tribune. The Minneapolis City…
Seattle's council commissioned research into the effects of its minimum wage increases. When it didn't like the results, it commissioned some more
Higher wages will only come from higher productivity. Trying to raise wages by dictating prices is like trying to slow your car by pressing down on the speedometer’s needle.
People often say “If you don’t like gay marriage, don’t get one”. Fine. If you don't want a job at $9.50 per hour, don’t get one.
Minneapolis’ small business owners are vital to the economy and will struggle with this proposed ordinance. All politicians like Council Member Bender can offer them are empty clichés. Since when…
Higher minimum wages hurt the very unskilled workers they are intended to help. They also hurt small businesses rather than big ones. Minneapolis City Council's discussion of the $15 per…