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"Her word isn’t law — just advice," said Rep. Keith Self (R-TX).
Published: Saturday, July 5th, 2025 @ 8:11 pm
By: Daily Wire
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With Title 42 set to expire tonight, First Lady Jill Biden was thrilled to hear that the country will soon be flooded with record numbers of breakfast tacos.
Published: Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 @ 8:26 am
By: Babylon Bee
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New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showed her solidarity with Biden's move to use poor taxpayers' money to pay off wealthier Americans' student loan debt, donning a "Tax The Poor" dress and posing for pictures.
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 2:31 am
By: Babylon Bee
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A far-left coalition of groups in North Carolina calling itself “NC United for Survival & Beyond” (NCUSB) is back again
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 10:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recent op-eds and editorials from the News & Observer have lambasted the state legislature’s plan to use a budget surplus to cut taxes.
Published: Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 @ 7:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Margot Cleveland of the Federalist focuses on an important ruling from a federal appellate court.
Published: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 @ 6:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Remarks by President Biden on the American Families Plan
Published: Wednesday, May 5th, 2021 @ 1:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Margot Cleveland of the Federalist focuses on one high-profile critic of raising the government-mandated minimum wage.
Published: Friday, April 23rd, 2021 @ 1:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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David Harsanyi writes for National Review Online about bad news for college students across the nation.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 3:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Viewers of Amy Cooke’s weekly “The Right AOC on Point” videos recently learned about Pearce’s Law, the political maxim that Democratic politicians can’t say what they really believe and still expect to win elections.
Published: Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 @ 3:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Editors at Issues and Insights wonder why advocates of an increase in the government-mandated minimum wage ignore clear, convincing evidence of its ill effects.
Published: Sunday, February 21st, 2021 @ 8:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two new studies confirm that a higher minimum wage would not be an unalloyed gain for low-wage workers.
Published: Saturday, January 30th, 2021 @ 12:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With President Biden in the White House and Democrats in control of both houses of Congress, conservatives are bracing for a flurry of policy changes on issues they care about.
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2021 @ 1:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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President Donald J. Trump granted pardons to 73 individuals and commuted the sentences of an additional 70 individuals
Published: Monday, January 25th, 2021 @ 10:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As he nears inauguration this week, President-Elect Joe Biden has proposed a $1.9 trillion relief package.
Published: Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 @ 11:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon documents a leading national business group’s dubious political calculation.
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2020 @ 4:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Eric Boehm writes at Reason.com about the disconnect between teachers unions’ current demands and actual threats COVID-19 poses to schools reopening.
Published: Thursday, August 6th, 2020 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While the deterioration of our public discourse preceded the 2016 election — and indeed Trump’s nomination and election can be seen as effects rather than causes of the phenomenon — political polarization is a defining characteristic of his presidency.
Published: Saturday, October 5th, 2019 @ 4:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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There is a great deal of public discussion right now about the minimum wage.
Published: Tuesday, August 27th, 2019 @ 5:28 pm
By: John Richard Furlough
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First, Cal Cunningham called for the impeachment of President Trump. Now, Cunningham has joined Erica Smith in calling for a higher minimum wage.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 2:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday that doubles the federally mandated minimum wage to $15 per hour.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2019 @ 10:31 am
By: Daily Wire
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The John Locke Foundation’s policy position on the minimum wage concludes with this recommendation
Published: Monday, November 5th, 2018 @ 6:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government programs such as welfare and other social means-tested programs characterize very well the government's general policy towards poverty: Make individuals "comfortable" in their poverty rather than incentivize them to become self-sufficient.
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2018 @ 9:41 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Recently, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo accidentally self-reported a serious federal violation
Published: Thursday, September 13th, 2018 @ 9:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As part of the US-Mexico trade deal that was announced last week, the Trump administration argued for and won a $16 per hour minimum wage for auto and auto parts workers in the United States and Mexico
Published: Thursday, September 13th, 2018 @ 3:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One subject that economists are in greatest agreement over is the negative unintended consequences of the minimum wage
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 7:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last year Senators Angela Bryant (D-Halifax), Valerie Foushee (D-Chatham) and Terry Van Duyn (D-Buncombe) introduced legislation (SB 174) to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour as a way “to advance economic security in North Carolina.”
Published: Thursday, January 25th, 2018 @ 7:24 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Seattle's minimum-wage hikes have made labor costs too expensive for a Subway franchise to afford to do the five-dollar footlong promotion
Published: Friday, January 12th, 2018 @ 1:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Seattle has been increasing its minimum wage over these last couple of years, and the results have thus far been predictable (at least by those that understand economics)
Published: Saturday, August 19th, 2017 @ 3:39 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Raising the government-mandated minimum wage to $15 per hour could cost North Carolina 334,000 jobs
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 5:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government regulation is a subject as dry as the desert sands to most people.
Published: Saturday, October 15th, 2016 @ 11:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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