Economy
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If you live here, you are paying public sector employees to do union-related work rather than their jobs
If you live in Fairfax County, Va. — and even if you don’t — you should be outraged to learn that, according…
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Latest study: Water not negatively impacted by fracking
In what is being hailed as “an extensive study” conducted by Syracuse University Earth Sciences professor Don Siegel, fracking operations…
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‘Courageous’ FL Dems to take ‘minimum wage challenge,’ live on $17 a day?
“Put your money where your mouth is,” the saying goes. And eighteen Florida state lawmakers, Democrats all, intend to do just that,…
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This court ruling could ultimately be death knell for the franchise business model
A lawsuit arguing that the Seattle $15 minimum wage disproportionately hurt franchisees by not treating them like small businesses was…
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Is the IRS in cahoots with the Clinton Foundation?
Does anyone remember Henry Markopolos? In case you don’t, he was the former securities industry executive who for nine years…
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A three-word message the American people shouldn’t ‘read too much into’
Almost any utterance can have different meanings depending on the way it is spoken. Take the three words “It is…
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This one Hillary Clinton tweet caused biotech stocks to plunge
The pen, it is said, is mightier than the sword. So apparently is the 140-character-maximum message known in the world…
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A deeper look at Bernie Sanders’s income inequality fallacy
A recent piece of mine titled ”Bernie Sanders’s Inequality Fallacies” created confusion among readers. Typically, those who disregard an argument…
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Sky’s the limit? Berkeley, CA to consider $19-an-hour minimum wage
Do I hear $20? Who will give me $25?… The question of whether to adopt the highest minimum wage in…
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What will be the trade-off for NY State as it adopts $15 minimum wage?
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15 per hour would cost “hundreds of…
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Bipartisan measure would save American consumers billions in fuel costs: Will Obama block it?
While President Obama wants to open the way for Iran oil exports, House members are pushing to put U.S. crude back…
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New video explores human cost of raising the minimum wage
The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) launched the first in a series of videos Thursday highlighting what it argues are the…
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Study: About half of all LEGAL immigrant households are on welfare
Legal immigrant households dominate welfare use in the United States, a new study shows. About half of all legal immigrant…
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Happy Labor Day: 9 facts about the history of the holiday and labor unions
The first Labor Day took place in New York City Sept. 5, 1882. It consisted of unions marching in a…
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Government worker indicted for trading food stamps for WHAT?!!
Your tax dollars at work. Tennessee state officials announced Thursday that they arrested state Department of Human Services Eligibility Counselor…
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Federal Medicare provisions punish thrifty seniors even more than before
If two couples make almost the same amount of money, should one of them be charged $2,000 more in Medicare…
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The $15 minimum wage battle spreads to Florida
Florida took a huge step toward passing a $15 minimum wage Friday, with one House Democrat filing a bill to…
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Israel’s security strategy includes boosting oil imports from THIS source
Petroleum politics.
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Feds worsen affordable-housing mandates that spawned 2008 financial crisis
Federal affordable housing mandates have done little or nothing to raise homeownership rates, but they did contribute to a devastating…
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Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban is ‘out’ on Hillary Clinton’s college loan plan
When Hillary Clinton unveiled her plan to slow the growth of student-loan debt around the country, most conservatives could be…
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More coal bankruptcies: Are President Obama’s wishes coming true?
In a January 17, 2008, interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, then-Senator Obama said that “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket” under…
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Dodd-Frank law strangles America’s small banks
The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act was enacted partly to end the problem of “too-big-to-fail” banks, but it has done quite the…
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If you live in any of these cities, you could be next in line for a $15 minimum wage
In June, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signed into law a raise in the city’s minimum wage, from $9 an hour to…
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Castro’s latest demands on the U.S. will make you see red
The U.S.’s new BFF, Fidel Castro, turned 89 last Thursday. A day later, the man who ruler over Cuba with…
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All Americans with health insurance are being hit hard by hidden Obamacare tax
So much for Obama’s pie-in-the-sky promise back in 2009 that his health care reform initiative, despite subsidizing tens of millions…
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Bernie Sanders doesn’t like Uber; his reason won’t surprise anyone
Democratic presidential hopeful and self-described socialist Bernie Sanders made clear Thursday his opinion on the ride sharing company Uber –…
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College lays off hundreds, spends $950K on renovations to president’s mansion
It’s not only the U.S. president who lives like a king while claiming to identity with the “little people.” The University…
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The economic spending fallacy
One cannot help but marvel at the pervasiveness of the misguided idea that spending is good for the economy. The…
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San Antonio, deep in debt, digs hole deeper with $13-an-hour minimum wage plan
Already mired in $17 billion of debt, the city of San Antonio wants to raise the minimum wage for city…
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s food labeling crusade could add HOW MUCH to your family’s food bill
What’s money when you’ve got it to burn? Hollywood celebrity Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t answer that question yesterday when she appeared on Capitol Hill to…
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Bernie’s $12 interns, and 8 other egregious examples of living wage hypocrisy
Experts and studies on both sides of the minimum wage debate have offered a long list of pros and cons when it comes to raising…
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Bias-free Time magazine blatantly lies about conservative billionaire Charles Koch
Time magazine this morning published an article whose headline blatantly misrepresented billionaire and conservative philanthropist Charles Koch as saying America could…
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Image of the Day: U.S. will issue 10.5 million green cards in next decade
The U.S. is set to add a bloc of new permanent immigrants in the next decade that is larger than…
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What happens when a business raises its minimum wage to $70K? Find out here
Want proof that increasing the minimum wage can negatively impact business? Consider the case of Gravity Payments, whose CEO, Dan Price,…
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