by Kelli Ballard | Jan 2, 2021 | Articles, Business News, Good Reads
Happy New Year comes with another gift to small businesses via the government. January 1 saw a minimum wage increase for many states throughout the country, another extra burden handed down to those who have been suffering the most significant financial losses during...
by Andrew Moran | Nov 6, 2020 | Articles, Business News, Economic Affairs News, Election 2020, Politics, Social Issues
During the second and final U.S. presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden stated that “we have to help our small businesses by raising the minimum wage.” Ostensibly, Biden studied economics in his basement in the dark if he thought higher labor...
by Andrew Moran | May 27, 2020 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Politics, Social Issues
The U.S. labor market has been a bloodbath over the last two months, shedding tens of millions of jobs and erasing more than $1 trillion in income for workers. One casualty usually omitted in the media’s unemployment coverage is joblessness among youth. With the...
by Andrew Moran | Feb 16, 2020 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Politics, Social Issues
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) possesses a troubling record of praising authoritarian regimes and acting as an apologist for communist governments that committed atrocities. The socialist senator did not make these remarks as a college freshman, but as a middle-aged...
by Andrew Moran | Jul 26, 2019 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Politics, Social Issues
Here is something that you might rarely hear: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is right. Although she is wrong on nearly every subject, from economics to public policy, the progressive presidential candidate is right about sounding the alarm bells for the next economic...