Minimum Wage (Page 44 )

  • Dude: Where’s My Summer Job

    July 2008 ·  Kristen Lopez Eastlick ·  Madison, WI, State Journal; also ran in San Antonio Express News, Colorado Springs Gazette, and the Washington Examiner

    Finals week is over; summer is here. And thanks to misguided politicians, your teenager is more likely to be sitting in front of the television than waiting tables or scooping ice cream. This year, it’s harder than ever for teens to find a summer job. Researchers at Northeastern University described summer 2007 as “the worst in post-World War II history” for teen summer employment, and those same…
  • A plan to batter Rhode Island’s Economy

    June 2008 ·  Kristen Lopez Eastlick ·  Providence Journal

    Say you own a small-town bakery. One morning you see in the news that local legislators have passed a new regulation raising the cost of flour by a buck a pound every year. What’s the first thing that you’d do to cut costs? Fire your worst-performing employees? Cut back on flour for your crowd-pleasing doughnuts? Move somewhere else? Start selling hamburgers? Probably some combination of the above.…
  • Minimum wage is the wrong tool for social engineering

    January 2008 ·  David Kreutzer ·  Cleveland Plain Dealer

    First do no harm. That’s a life-or-death rule for doctors, who must consider any damage their intended cures may inflict. If only policy-makers respected this rule. Instead, on New Year’s Day, Ohio, along with 13 other states and the District of Columbia, applied the economic equivalent of leeches – minimum-wage increases – to try to “cure” poverty. Misguided politicians and citizens in Ohio and elsewhere mandated wage…
  • Fantasy Economics

    November 2007 ·  David Kreutzer ·  WorldNetDaily

    In a fantasy-football world, everyone is a billionaire and your team never needs to practice. In a fantasy-economics world, the disadvantaged and the poorly skilled can be made richer and happier with wage floors and employer mandates. Although fantasy football has no impact on real football, fantasy economics is often turned into legislation. With fantasy economics, the minimum wage can be raised to any level as long…
  • Minimum wage hikes are killing teens’ summer jobs

    August 2007 ·  Jill Jenkins ·  Newsday

    Summer’s almost over. And for too many teens this year the answer to “What did you do over summer vacation?” will not be, “I had a job.” Manhattan’s teen employment rate is less than 17 percent – that’s the lowest among major American cities. And between 2005 and 2006 the number of New York State teens classified as “unemployed” – those who are actively seeking a job…
  • No wonder it’s tough for teens to get summer jobs

    August 2007 ·  Jill Jenkins ·  Washington DC Examiner

    School’s out for the summer. And it’s harder than ever to find a job if you’re a teen. Researchers at Northeastern University estimate that this summer about 64 percent of 16-19 year-olds won’t have a job. That matches the worst rate recorded in the last 57 years. And the percentage of teens classified as “unemployed” – those who are actively seeking a job but can’t get one…