Consider the Trade-Offs of a Minimum Wage Hike
Voters will go to the polls shortly and decide, among other things, whether to increase Arkansas’s minimum wage. While advocates
Read moreVoters will go to the polls shortly and decide, among other things, whether to increase Arkansas’s minimum wage. While advocates
Read moreSoon Arkansas voters will be deciding whether or not to increase the state’s minimum wage from $8.50 an hour to
Read moreOn Election Day, voters will have a chance to decide if Arkansas workers will be prohibited from accepting a job
Read moreThat’s why competition and free enterprise are the best solution to raising wages, not government intervention and minimum wage laws.
Read moreWe’ve written previously about how the recently-passed minimum wage hike in Arkansas will limit opportunities for low-skilled workers.
Read moreArkansans are “headed in the wrong direction” for low-wage worker freedom in Arkansas, an economist said in a speech at an Arkansas Center for Research In Economics event in Conway last night.
Read moreThe Arkansas Supreme Court, in its opinion yesterday, removed the final obstacle to a statewide vote on hiking the minimum wage. One startling aspect of the Court’s decision is that it appeared to tolerate — and, thus, to encourage — a significant level of petition fraud.
Read moreWhat can Arkansas lawmakers do to grow the state’s economy in the years to come? That’s the question a new
Read moreTeen unemployment is rising dramatically on the rise in Arkansas; a proposed minimum wage increase is likely to make it worse.
Read moreThis week on the show, Dan and I discuss: Minimum wage, maximum suffering Peter Schiff passes the hat for higher
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