by Publius | Oct 8, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Ike Brannon | The minimum wage is a facile non-solution for the complicated problem of poverty in America. While waiting in line at my local grocery store in Washington, D.C., the other night, I eavesdropped on two thirty-something store employees discussing the...
by Publius | Sep 8, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Philip Wegmann | A small-town cafe ignited a firestorm of controversy that has engulfed Minnesota. On Aug. 1, the state bumped the minimum wage from $7.25 to $8 an hour. A few days later, Stillwater Oasis quietly added a corresponding 35-cent “minimum wage fee” to...
by Publius | Feb 10, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Pierre Brochu and David A Green | On 14 January 2014 a group of 75 economists, including seven Nobel laureates, released a letter calling for an increase in the US minimum wage (Woellert 2014). At the same time, George Osborne, the Conservative Chancellor of the...