Labor and Wages

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Ryan McMaken

Reparations to heirs of slaves make sense so long as the actually guilty parties are the ones paying. Short of that, the policy being discussed has nothing to do with reparations. It's just a wealth redistribution scheme. 

Austin Pace

We are better off not needing twelve people with shovels to do the same thing as a single bulldozer. Robots are not fundamentally different from a bulldozer.

Ryan McMaken

Citizenship based on a person's current location is a long and well-established principle in the Americas. But this is not the case back in Europe.

John Tamny

The rich get rich by virtue of making what's dear rather cheap, thus helping the poor the most.

William L. Anderson

Dollar stores are hardly the starvation-producing hellholes that the critics claim them to be. They serve their customer base well, but it is not a customer base of elite journalists and politicians.

Ryan McMaken

This Christmas, countless workers will profit when others spend freely on "unnecessary" luxury goods.

Ryan McMaken

The Fed tells us that the Millennials are less wealthy and lower-income than others. But the Fed ignores its own role in stifling wealth growth among the young.

Ryan McMaken

When the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, employers hired fewer disabled workers, because they feared lawsuits. We may now be seeing a similar trend in the face of more sexual harassment claims.

Henry Hazlitt

The Poor Law Amendment of 1834 attempted to address the problem of runaway costs and abuses of the system. With mixed results.