All Posts Tagged With: "unskilled labor"
Economists Against Economics
Five economists who either won the Nobel Prize in economics or who served as president of the American Economic Association—and three who did both—recently joined over 600 other economists in urging the federal government to increase the minimum wage. The signatures were gathered by the union-backed Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which unsurprisingly supports substantial government [...]
1Dec2006 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedTwisting Economics Against Immigrants
P. Gardner Goldsmith is an independent journalist and screenwriter in New Hampshire. On January 7 President Bush announced what appeared to be a sweeping plan to grant de-facto amnesty to millions of illegal aliens working in the United States. In fact, it was little more than a long-term worker-visa program that barely increased the ability [...]
1Sep2004 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Minimum Wage
Mr. Sohr is a student, and Dr. Block a former professor, at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dr. Block is now chair of the department of economics and finance at the University of Central Arkansas. The second stage of the minimum-wage increase approved by Congress last year recently took effect. What [...]
1Nov1997 | and Kevin Sohr | 1 comment | ContinuedMinimum Wage Plus
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). What could be more appropriate in Washington than a bipartisan congressional majority pushing to increase the minimum wage? Legislators always move with [...]
1Aug1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued-
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