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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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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Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College has food pantries on its campuses — for its teachers.
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 @ 8:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Sunday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Jake Tapper.
Published: Friday, February 14th, 2020 @ 9:59 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina’s unemployment rate has dropped from the 10.9 percent 2010 high we experienced following The Great Recession to 4.0 percent in October. But that’s not uniform across the state.
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2019 @ 7:46 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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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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Corporate profits declined 2.9% in the first quarter of 2019 even as wages grew at an annual rate of 10.1%. This sure sounds like an economy that is benefiting the 99%.
Published: Tuesday, August 6th, 2019 @ 8:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Now and then you'll encounter a public servant actually questioning the bad numbers propping up a bad policy proposal, and it's as refreshing as, well, any scene from a lite beer commercial. Remember when the Maryland county executive held back on imposing a $15 per hour minimum wage.
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2019 @ 7:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Once again teachers will descend on the state capital to call for more public school funding, Medicaid expansion, and a $15 minimum wage for all school workers.
Published: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 @ 1:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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This week, France set itself on fire; the stock market tumbled; and news broke that low-wage employment tumbled in the city of Seattle.
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2018 @ 12:40 pm
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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Much of the economic news lately is focusing on the fact that labor is becoming a scarce commodity
Published: Friday, October 26th, 2018 @ 10:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Municipal sewage systems jettisoned tens of millions of gallons of untreated human waste into Hurricane Florence floodwaters, dwarfing the hog manure lagoon discharges state and national media cited as public health and environmental hazards
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2018 @ 4:42 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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The September jobs report continues America's economic winning streak under President Trump, evidenced by strong job creation, rising wages, rapid business growth, soaring consumer confidence, and increased manufacturing activity.
Published: Tuesday, September 11th, 2018 @ 5:47 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released a report outlining the limitations of traditional wage measures and how they understate compensation growth among American workers.
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2018 @ 10:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The minimum wage for state employees will rise to $15 an hour if the budget proposed by legislative leaders becomes law
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2018 @ 12:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper took three strikes in Wake County Superior Court this week as judges ruled in favor of the General Assembly in a continuing battle over separation of powers
Published: Thursday, April 12th, 2018 @ 4:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. John Szoka, R-Cumberland, is worried $92 million from a national Volkswagen consent decree over Clean Air Act violations might get tangled up in another separation-of-powers showdown between Gov. Roy Cooper and the General Assembly
Published: Tuesday, March 13th, 2018 @ 12:00 am
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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North Carolinians with ideas about how to use $92 million from a court settlement to improve North Carolina's air quality are encouraged to share their ideas as the State of North Carolina develops its plan
Published: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017 @ 5:50 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Today, the Council of Economic Advisers released a report on the relationship between the corporate tax rate and GDP growth
Published: Saturday, October 28th, 2017 @ 8:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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"Lower taxes on American business means higher wages for American workers, and it means more products made right here in the USA."
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 11:48 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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What do the $15 minimum wage, Obamacare, and proposed gun control laws all have in common? Of course, we could say, uncontroversially, that they are all policies supported by progressives and at least in part form the backbone of modern day progressivism's policy agenda
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the period of apartheid in South Africa, all-white labor unions representing workers in the diamond mines were able to have put in place minimum wage laws for diamond mine workers
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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