How Minimum Wage Laws Do More Harm Than Good

by Bryan Hyde. Most of us remember our first minimum wage job with a sense of fondness. Mine was delivering prescriptions for Magic Valley Drug for a whopping $3.35 an hour. As far as I was concerned, that was pretty decent pay for driving my boss’s Thunderbird and singing along with the radio. At the time I was too young to vote, so the thought of lobbying politicians ... MORE

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Alicia M. Cohn: Dems Twice As Likely To Be Nannies

And, twice as likely to back the Big Gulp ban. Democratic voters are more than twice as likely as Republicans to back a proposal by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) to ban super-sized sugary drinks in the Big Apple, according to a new poll for The Hill.  Amid national scrutiny over Bloomberg’s so-called Big Gulp ban plan, the national survey found ... MORE