minimum wage

Rob Port May 28, 2015 0

The city of Los Angeles is the latest to pass a minimum wage for workers of $15 an hour, and...

Rob Port April 20, 2015 0

For a long time North Dakota had a serious problem with outmigration. Our young people were leaving the state to...

Rob Port March 25, 2015 0

Maybe it is time to recognize that raising the minimum wage is bad for young and low-wage workers: PIERRE, S.D....

Rob Port February 2, 2015 0

HB1438 would have raised the minimum wage for tipped workers over the course of several years to be on-par with...

Rob Port January 28, 2015 0

One general exception to minimum wage laws are so-called tipped workers. People like waiters and delivery drivers who make a...

Rob Port January 14, 2015 0

Senator Heidi Heitkamp barely won the 2012 election which put her in office. This lack of a meaningful mandate from...

Rob Port November 29, 2014 7940

Last year Walmart was the target of a social media firestorm after it was revealed that they were running a...

Rob Port September 28, 2014 0

The current popular rant among many non-economists is that opposition to raising the minimum wage is equivalent to opposition to...

Rob Port August 26, 2014 0

North Dakota's elected officials like to take credit for our state's booming economy. Their challengers like to point out that...

Rob Port August 6, 2014 242

On August 1st, Minnesota's new minimum wage policy became law. The state's minimum wage (with a few exceptions for younger...