President Joe Biden’s new $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal includes a surprising provision: raising the federal minimum wage to $15. The fight for a higher minimum wage is not new, although it has been intensified by current events. The idea, more specifically, is to provide a “living wage.” Proponents argue that, currently, minimum wage workers … Continue reading Why a One-Size-Fits-All Federal Minimum Wage Makes Zero Sense
Victor Child Care Center in Victor, New York, was on the brink. Ravaged by costs incurred as a result of COVID-19, Laurie Lavery, owner of the business, needed to cut back more and more services to stay afloat. Eventually, Lavery, 64, was forced to scrub the floors and bathrooms of the center by herself on weekends … Continue reading Leading by Example, Barstool Fund Steps Up to Save Small Businesses
In 1971, the Supreme Court upheld a 1955 law making it illegal for federal employees to strike against the U.S. government. So, when members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization union went on strike in August 1981, demanding a $10,000 a year bump in pay and a reduction in the workweek from 40 hours to 32, … Continue reading It’s Time for a Bold, Reaganesque Approach to Teachers Unions on School Closures
U.S. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (CO-03) released the following statement after introducing the Paris Agreement Constitutional Treaty Act: "My bill prohibits Congress from spending a single penny on the Paris Agreement until this treaty is ratified by the United States Senate. Joe Biden took an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. If he wants to keep it, he must … Continue reading Rep. Boebert Introduces Bill to Block Paris Agreement
Government policies meant to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in unintended consequences that threaten lives—including, tragically, the lives of young people who are generally spared from the worst effects of COVID-19. School closures, stay-at-home orders, and shutdowns of businesses deemed “non-essential” are contributing to surging rates of depression and suicide among young people, as … Continue reading Youth Depression, Suicide Increasing During Pandemic Response
In his first week in office, President Joe Biden swept through a series of environmental policy actions. You’d be forgiven if most of it sounded vaguely familiar and you questioned whether we hadn’t settled all this before. Among other actions, the new administration rescinded the cross-border permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, initiated reentry into the Paris … Continue reading Executive Order Seesaw on Environmental Rules Inflicts Vertigo on Economy
This week, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris began their terms as president and vice president. Both Biden and Harris have expressed views on a range of technology policy issues that are bound to be discussed in Congress as well as state legislatures over the next few years. In the coming days, we will analyze Biden's … Continue reading Gig Economy Regulation Under Biden
The People’s Republic of China often pays lip service to reforming its bloated, inefficient state-owned enterprises. Unfortunately, reforms rarely pan out. When China began to emerge from the dark ages of the Cultural Revolution in the late 1970s, progress in reforming state-owned enterprises, particularly in the form of consolidating state control of large state-owned enterprises … Continue reading China’s Economy Is Mostly Unfree and Likely to Stay That Way
Inauguration Week seems like an opportune time to think how much more just the Department of Justice could be if President Biden took the bold step of putting a libertarian in charge of it. As I've written before, our criminal justice system is fundamentally rotten—it punishes vast amounts of morally blameless conduct, uses coercion-fueled mass adjudication … Continue reading What a Libertarian Attorney General Could Do
The Washington Post will have a lot more time on its hands now that President Joe Biden has been sworn in. According to the paper’s spokesperson, it can call off its whole fact-checking operation. Apparently, it’s not necessary now that its preferred party is in office. The Daily Caller’s Shelby Talcott reached out to the Post after it published … Continue reading After Tracking Trump ‘Falsehoods,’ Washington Post Says It Won’t Do the Same for Biden
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