Richard Berman: Raising Minimum Wage Is Bad Magic Trick

Presto, change-o and workers will be hurt.   Apparently America’s employees were better off in 1968 than they are today. At least, such is the claim of the labor-backed activists and the AFL-CIO’s chief economist. By their telling, the minimum wage has lost value — if it were fairly adjusted since the late 1960s, it would today be set at $10.58.  ... MORE