It's time for common sense; I'm Ernest Istook. A new book, by black author Walter Williams, claims government hurts…
Abstract: Unions have been a familiar part of American working life for more than 70 years. Less familiar is the state of the union movement today: More union members now work for the government than for private employers. The above-market salaries and benefits that…
The federal government pays its employees substantially more than they would earn in the private sector. The current federal pay system: Pays hourly wages 22 percent above that of comparable private sector workers; Provides…
Abstract: Salaries and benefits—for identical jobs—are 30 percent to 40 percent higher in the federal government than in the private sector. Claims that this dramatic discrepancy in compensation is warranted because of government workers’ high skills are unjustified, as this study shows. Equally unjustified…
Testimony of Paul Kersey Bradley Visiting Fellow Before the House of Representatives; Small Business Committee; Subcommittee on Workforce, Empowerment, and Government Programs Regarding The Economic Effects of the Minimum Wage Ladies and gentlemen, it is understandable to want to…
Should we raise the minimum wage? The editors at Bloomberg think so. They maintain that low-wage jobs are expanding...…
Protests that began on Wall Street and spread to cities across America have now reached the pristine halls of Harvard....…
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Alan Krueger, President Obama’s nominee as chair of the White House Council on Economic Advisors, received accolades...…
State governments across the nation are looking for ways to tighten their belts in the face of declining tax revenues...…
Economist Walter Williams knows that minimum wage laws are hurting poor, African-American teenagers and his new book,...…
When studying Isaac Newton's laws of motion in high school, we all learn that every action has a reaction. I was...…
Last week, George Mason University economics professor Daniel Klein wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed summarizing an...…
Liberals, and especially unions, frequently claim that raising the minimum wage helps workers and the economy. They...…
The latest attempt by Congress to wrestle the high unemployment rate is the HIRE Act, which is little more than a tax...…
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