The Effects Of A Minimum Wage Increase
On Tuesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a letter from scholars at the Show-Me Institute arguing that raising the minimum...
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Michael Podgursky, Ph.D., on the Minimum Wage
Michael Podgursky, Ph.D., responds to recent arguments to raise the minimum wage. While raising the minimum wage would help a...
Why Would Unions And Some Big Businesses Support Raising the Minimum Wage? Some Reasons
Last week’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report brought the negative effects of a proposed minimum wage hike into sharp focus. The CBO...
Left Wages War On Poor With Minimum Wage Push
Over the last few months, the push has been on to raise the minimum wage. While increasing the wage sounds...
Raising The Minimum Wage Will Cost 500,000 Jobs
The Show-Me Institute has talked a lot about the negative effects of raising the minimum wage. In his two policy...
Increasing The Minimum Wage Does More Harm Than Good
Thousands of fast-food workers in dozens of cities across the country walked off the job a few days before Labor...
Ishmael on KWMU: Raising the Minimum Wage
Show Me Institute Policy Analyst Patrick Ishmael joins host Don Marsh of KWMU and and Jack Strauss, Director of the...
Agreeing About The Minimum Wage
It appears that questioning the merits of raising the minimum wage is a phenomenon that stretches across the ideological spectrum...
Here We Go Again . . . Raising The Minimum Wage
President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address last night and in it, he called for raising the federal...
A Minimum Wage Hike . . . Good for Missouri?
Beginning Jan. 1, due to a ballot initiative approved in 2006, Missouri will see its minimum wage increase by 10...
Should Missouri Raise Its Minimum Wage?
Some advocates in Missouri would like to see the state’s minimum wage increased to as much as $8.25, and to...
It’s Official: Payday Lending, Minimum Wage Initiatives Off November Ballot
Supporters of two proposed Missouri ballot measures have thrown in the towel weeks after the Secretary of State’s office announced...
Minimum Wage Initiative Cost Estimate May Mislead Voters
The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that the state auditor can prepare an estimate of how much a ballot initiative will...
Stokes on Jaco Report – Minimum Wage
Show-Me Institute Policy Analyst David Stokes recently appeared on Channel 2’s Jaco Report in Saint Louis in support of the...
The Minimum Wage Hurts Those It Is Designed to Help
Two bills currently working their way through the Missouri General Assembly, House Bill 61 and Senate Bill 110, would tie...
A Minor Point About Minimum Wage
The first job I ever got paid for was probably mowing lawns in the ’90s when I was a teen....
Minimum Wage
Yesterday, John Combest linked to a KOMU article about minimum wage and its effects on the youth work force. As...
Minimum Wage Laws
Over at Mises Daily, Art Carden revisits the harmful effects of minimum wage laws and cites a Show-Me Institute study...
Restaurants and the Minimum Wage
The Post-Dispatch reports on a proposed minimum wage cap that would apply to tipped workers, like waiters in restaurants. The...
An Exception to the Minimum Wage
Minimum wage laws don’t apply equally to all endeavors. One result of such laws is that they encourage businesses to...
