All Posts Tagged With: "employment benefits"
Raising the Minimum Wage Will Do No Harm?
President Bush and the Democratically controlled Congress had all but done it. As this goes to press, they are on the verge of hiking the federal minimum wage, which has not budged since 1997. The minimum wage will have risen by 70 cents, or to $5.85, an hour by the time these words are read. [...]
1Mar2007 | Richard B. McKenzie | 3 comments | ContinuedAnother Minimum-Wage Clash
Richard McKenzie teaches economics in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine. It happened again. Republicans and Democrats recently locked political horns over President Clinton’s proposed one-dollar increase in the minimum wage. The political partisans repeated past claims with self-righteous fervor, but once again were off base on the consequences of [...]
1Nov1998 | Richard B. McKenzie | 1 comment | ContinuedEmployer Mandates: A Threat to Employees
Most people who want to force employers to pay for their employees’ health insurance have so far ducked the facts about who pays for “employer” mandates. They’ve had good reason to duck them, because the facts are clear. Economic analysis and economists across the political spectrum who have studied the issue are unanimous that the [...]
1Jan1995 | David R. Henderson | 0 comments | Continued-
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