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April 2019

April 30, 2019

Tellers, living wages, single parenting, and an annoying Congressional hearing

Over at Forbes, I referenced a Washington Post column claiming that it is super-inappropriate to...

July 2017

July 09, 2017

Three bloggable things about the Renaissance Faire

So I went to the Renaissance Fair (or "Faire") in Bristol, Wisconsin, on Saturday, just...

January 2017

January 09, 2017

A bit of irony on minimum wage/immigration advocacy

Here's a piece at MarketWatch.com that was floating around twitter this weekend: "Your food and...

June 2016

June 05, 2016

The “True Minimum Wage” = the Shadow Economy wage

So I checked my twitter feed this morning and saw a link to an article...

May 2016

May 20, 2016

Is it just to pay low wages . . .

if the alternative is no wages? That's the natural follow up to my comment on...

April 2016

April 22, 2016

What to do about the very poor? (a follow-up to $2 a Day)

So having given a more-or-less straight summary of $2 a Day in my prior post, here...

April 18, 2016

Is your Comcast installer a *Comcast* installer? More on contractors

By coincidence, just after I wrote about independent contractors, Slate had an article about Comcast's use...

April 15, 2016

No, we won’t all be 1099 contractors in the future

So I picked up a book called Raw Deal, by Steven Hill, subtitled How the...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

A high minimum wage is magical thinking

Really, it is. Let's start with the LA Times reporting on the agreement to hike...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

The NEETs are not so neat: new statistics on black youth in Chicago (updated)

From today's Chicago Tribune, "Nearly half of young black men in Chicago out of work,...

January 05, 2016

“Mechanical Turk” and the Etsy Economy

This is new-to-me, though not new per se: Amazon has a side business selling not...

January 04, 2016

A brief observation on minimum wage-earners and food stamps

Here's the context: I spent a fair bit of time writing on the issue of...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

Parking a link: on the minimum wage

Why is it that, whenever newspapers want to find sad stories to illustrate their political...

February 06, 2015

“The True Minimum Wage”

That's something that was floating around, with respect to the minimum wage: "the true minimum...

December 2014

December 15, 2014

Parking a link: the economics of labor

According to today's Tribune, Starwood Hotels has piloted a new program that allows its guest...

December 01, 2014

Let’s talk about a subminimum wage

I had written before, in the post-election postmorteming that everyone was doing, that the Republicans...

December 01, 2014

Things that are not a surprise, #2: Minimum wage increase are not free

From Friday's Tribune, "Minimum wage poses predicament for service agencies": As Democratic lawmakers renew their...

September 2014

September 04, 2014

At $15/hr, what happens to the Wal-Mart greeter?

Just a quick thought for the night: The pro-high-minimum wage line is generally that workers...

September 02, 2014

Is the $15 minimum wage just for fast food workers?

Let's start with the fact that I find the idea of a $15 minimum wage...