In yet another attack on the minimum wage, New York Times Economix blogger Casey Mulligan argues that the failure of part-time employment to continue to increase at the end of 2009 is proof that the July 2009 minimum wage increase prevented 800,000 part-time jobs from being created.
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Co-written with David Reeves.
Several GOP presidential candidates have made competing claims to the Reagan mantle this election season. So in order to determine once and for all which candidates truly honor the Gipper’s legacy, we are submitting the following questionnaire to the remaining Republican presidential nominee contenders. (Except for you, Mitt-- you were
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As New Year’s Day approaches, here’s wishing you a Happy New Year 2001! That’s right, 2001. With wages stuck at 2001 levels, it’s been a lost decade for working families.
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Significant job growth continues to elude the American workforce, as companies hold back from expanding and rehiring in the face of weak demand for their goods and services. In a Wall Street Journal article last month, “Dearth of Demand Seen Behind Weak Hiring,” CEOs and economists repeatedly emphasized that without customers lining up to buy [...]
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The Austin American-Statesman ran an op-ed Saturday under the head-spinning headline ”Low Texas Wages are Mostly Good News.” No joke. American-Statesman staff writers Lori Taylor and Heather Gregory noted that Texas had the highest percentage of low-wage workers in the country in 2009 and 2010: more than a half a million workers in the state [...]
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In his latest attack on the minimum wage,Casey Mulligan charges in his NYT Economix post that the 2007-2009 minimum wage increases are adding to teen unemployment. He writes that “Many teenagers cannot find work this summer, victims of a weak economy and a situation made worse by minimum-wage laws.” Mulligan is correct to note that [...]
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As conservatives in Congress exploit the impending vote to on the debt ceiling to further slash government programs that support working and middle class families, a new poll from the Ms. Foundation for Women shows that the American people want the government to play a larger—not smaller—role in improving the economic situation of average Americans. [...]
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The House Republicans have developed a track record of bait and switch when it comes to their approach to job creation. Last week, House Republican leadership released a PowerPoint by Congressman Paul Ryan that they are using to educate the Republican Caucus on their top policy priorities. Ryan laid out the “Jobs Deficit” [...]
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Campaign for America’s Future, in conjunction with the new campaign Health Care for America Now, captures the health insurance industry failing to deliver on its promise to listen to citizens’ ideas about how to create “affordable, high quality health care for every American.” As part of the insurance industry’s new “listening tour” that launched last [...]
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Dear Rick, Greetings from Buenos Aires. You are always talking about how we need to invest more in our public infrastructure. How ’bout this street sign strategy from the Paris of Latin America? Anne
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