IBD: The Worst Job Stat Continues To Get Even Worse

by Jed Graham. Amid all the focus on boosting the minimum wage and legislating living wages, virtually no one seems to have noticed what is happening to the workweek in low-wage industries. 

Since December 2012, private industries paying up to about $14.50 an hour have added, on net, 972,000 nonsupervisory jobs with an average workweek of a mere 17.7 hours, an IBD analysis finds. 

That doesn't mean new employees are being hired for such few hours. Rather, it reflects a combination of reduced hours in existing jobs and   ... MORE

When It’s Easier To Pay No Wages Rather Than A Minimum

by Tyler Durden.   As of today there is no hotter subject following on the heels of Obama-Care than the current fight brewing in the minimum wage debate. Regardless of which side of the aisle (or counter) you’re on, the argument as to demand a government regulated hike of upwards of 50% or more in some places puts a question squarely on the     ... MORE

Young, Bummed & In Debt: Why Aren't Millennials Angrier?

by Veronique de Rugy.    Until recently, a bad job market was nearly always bad news for political incumbents. Unemployed and anxious voters have a habit of throwing the bums out. But headed into the 2016 election season, one large demographic group is still likely to vote Democratic: millennials. Which is weird, because when it comes to the labor  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Police State USA

Cops Seize Family Home After $40 Drug Bust

by Zoe Szathmary.   How Philadelphia uses cops to legally steal. A Philadelphia civil forfeiture law has reportedly allowed the government to take away citizens' homes - and much of it funds city prosecutors. CBS Philadelphia reported on the story, saying homeowners Christos Sourovelis, Norys Hernandez and Doris Welch have filed a lawsuit, ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: 40,000 Prisoners Of Pot Prohibition

Some will die in prison.     Now that growing and selling marijuana are legitimate businesses in Colorado and Washington, the injustice of sending people to prison for engaging in those activities is starker than ever before. Last week at Reason.com, for example, Aaron Malin highlighted the case of Jeff Mizanskey, a Missouri man who   ... MORE

VIDEO: Getting Real - Lisa Desjardins's CNN Goodbye

Speaking Ill Of The Police Is Now A "Hate Crime"

by William Norman Grigg.     The NYPD has now added its name to the roster of Officially Protected Victims by filing “hate crimes” charges against 36-year-old Rosella Best, who had tagged police vehicles and a public school with anti-NYPD graffiti. Among the entirely defensible sentiments inscribed by Best are “NYPD pick on the harmless,”  ... MORE

Cops Say Tasering 8-Year-Old For Tantrum Was Justified

by Vincent Schilling.  Two months after an 8-year-old girl was tasered by a Pierre, South Dakota police officer in October of 2013, Hughes County State’s Attorney Wendy Kloeppner released a report which stated “she was satisfied with an independent investigation, deploying a taser was the best viable way to diffuse the situation,” and no charges would   ... MORE

Dick Marple: Jury Nullification Keeps Government In Check

Sept 5th was Jury Rights Day.      It was on that day in 1670 that Quaker William Penn of London was arrested, pleaded not guilty and subsequently argued against England’s Conventicle Acts, which outlawed the practice of religions other than the Church of England. The judge instructed the jurors to find Penn guilty, but they refused to   ... MORE

Dan Mitchell: America's Ever-Expanding Regulation Swamp

An economy tangled in red tape.      Maybe I’m biased because I mostly work on fiscal policy, but it certainly seems feasible to come up with rough estimates for the damage caused by onerous taxes and excessive spending. On a personal level, for instance, we have a decent idea of how much the government takes from us and we know  ... MORE

VIDEO: Tom Woods - Representative Slavery

Tim Walberg: Stopping The Abuse Of Civil Asset Forfeiture

The robbery of the highwayman.      Imagine you are driving down the highway on your way to buy a car. You spent months researching years, makes and models, and you finally found somebody who was selling the exact ride you were looking for at a reasonable price. Suddenly, police pull you over for allegedly going 37 mph in a 35 mph zone.    ... MORE

Mark Strauss: How To Reduce Painkiller Overdoses

Just ask states with legalized medical marijuana.      As the number of patients who receive opioid prescriptions to treat non-cancer pain has increased in the past decade, so too have the number of overdoses. A new study, however, finds that states that legalized medical marijuana between 1999 and 2010 had 25% fewer annual       ... MORE

VIDEO: The Law You Won't Be Told About

Ronald Bailey: How to Slake California's Thirst

"Nature makes a drought, but Man makes a shortage."  That's the trenchant slogan that the Leiden University College water resource economist David Zetland uses to sum up how bureaucratic mismanagement of supply and demand misallocates water pervasively. California's current water crisis—exacerbated by a three-year   ... MORE

Baylen Linnekin: Food Trucks Have Turned the Corner

Are we at the dawn of a new era for food trucks?    Food truck cuisine has often been about pushing boundaries. Think Korean tacos. But how about a cannabis-infused food truck? Earlier this year, NPR reported on the THC-infused pulled-pork sandwiches cooked up by a Denver food truck. Sound like a new era for food trucks? While cannabis   ... MORE

Senator Rand Paul: ‘I Am Not An Isolationist’

The senator clarifies his position.   Some pundits are surprised that I support destroying the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militarily. They shouldn’t be. I’ve said since I began public life that I am not an isolationist, nor am I an interventionist. I look at the world, and consider war, realistically and constitutionally. I still see war as  ... MORE

Marijuana Legalization Supported By Growing Majority

by Matt Ferner.   A broad new survey shows that a majority of American adults continue to support marijuana legalization in the United States, and that support appears to be growing. The survey, released last week from online polling data company CivicScience, asked more than 450,000 U.S. adults over the last two years this question: "Would you   ... MORE