minimum wage

Rob Port February 18, 2013 11

George Mason Professor of Economics Donald Boudreaux asks President Obama to justify his proposal for increasing minimum wages with his...

Rob Port February 16, 2013 31

Obamacare is turning out to be a swift, hard kick in the pants for America's youth (a demographic that voted...

Rob Port February 13, 2013 11

Via Jim Pethokoukis, here's a frightening chart: Free markets depend on creative destruction. Old ways of doing things are constantly...

Rob Port February 13, 2013 18

Last night during his State of the Union address, President Obama called for raising the federal minimum wage to $9/hour:...

Rob Port February 5, 2013 23

Rep. Steve Zaiser introduced HB1414 which would have mandated annual increases in North Dakota's minimum wage indexed to inflation as...

Rob Port January 30, 2013 44

The unions and those opposed to right-to-work laws generally are fond of claiming that incomes in right-to-work states are lower....

Rob Port January 22, 2013 50

Lots of interesting new bills introduced in the state legislature today. Here's a run down of a few that caught...

Rob Port January 4, 2013 10

These charts, by way of Zero Hedge, are a sad commentary on the state of the national economy: What's causing...

Rob Port January 4, 2013 74

Chris Gregoire and John Kitzhaber, the governors of Washington and Oregon respectively, want the federal government to raise the minimum...