Employment
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Employment, Federal Government
Federal pay tops the market, keeps growing
Economy, Employment, Regulations
A $15 minimum wage as overkill
There are vast swaths of the US where the cost of getting by is relatively reasonable, and where the risk of job losses posed by more than doubling the federal minimum may well outweigh the benefits of giving the remaining workers raises.
Via This map shows why a $15 minimum wage is a terrible idea @ Business Insider
Economics, Economy, Employment, Free Markets, Immigration, Presidential Race 2016
No free-labor market for Sen. Sanders
Sanders has shown signs in the past that he is less pro-immigration than some of his Democratic colleagues. In 2007, he was a major Democratic opponent of George W. Bush’s immigration reform bill, arguing that welcoming more guest workers would drive down wages for American workers.
Via Bernie Sanders Joins Donald Trump In Denouncing Higher Immigration @ The Libertarian Republic.
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Economy, Employment, Regulations
Looks great on paper
Economy, Employment, Free Markets, Immigration, Military
Another Conservative Rejects Genuinely Free Markets
“[U.S. Rep. Dave] Brat makes a big deal out of being an economist who “understands that a free and growing economy is necessary” for jobs and prosperity. But he has voiced doubts about the same fast-track trade authority every president since Roosevelt has had, and he wants to erect high barriers at the border to…
Economy, Employment, Regulations
Mandating less for those most in need
“In truth, there is only one way to regard a minimum wage law: it is compulsory unemployment, period. The law says: it is illegal, and therefore criminal, for anyone to hire anyone else below the level of X dollars an hour. This means, plainly and simply, that a large number of free and voluntary wage…
Economy, Employment, Regulations
Cui bono?
Employment, Free Markets, Immigration, Labor
The GOP’s problem with free markets in labor
The GOP – the ever-larger nativist part of it – has never believed in free markets in labor when those markets might include immigrant-workers. Phyllis Schlafly’s a good example: she bluntly encourages the Republicans to solicit “white votes, the white voters who didn’t vote in the last election.” Can’t say she’s not a plain-speaking, race-limiting…
Employment, Free Markets, Immigration
Jim DeMint’s No Libertarian (and he’s no honest man, either)
For those who wondered how Jim DeMint would fare at the Heritage Foundation, now you know: he’s taking a conservative think tank and putting it in the tank with dodgy studies against free markets in labor. How? Start with a ludicrous, astronomically-high claim against immigration and ignore the benefits entirely: The Heritage paper, chock-full of assumptions that most…
America, Economy, Employment
True Unemployment’s 11.1%
Employment, Immigration, Law
E-Verify’s a bad deal for businesses and worker
Funny, though, how biased government can be while holding hearings to consider E-Verify: Earlier today, there was a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee on whether all employers nationwide should be required to use the employment verification system E-Verify to investigate the backgrounds of each new employee they hire. The hearing was erroneously titled “How…
Employment, Free Speech, Law
Government employees’ broad speech rights in New Hampshire
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh writes about his discovery of a New Hampshire law that seems to provide broad speech protections to public employees of that state. Prof. Volokh writes that If taken seriously, this would protect from retaliation even insults (short of criminally punishable “fighting words”) of coworkers or customers, though I…