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Trump Rules! Dems Just Lost 2020 Election Feb. 03, 2019
Did you hear the latest economic news? I predict President Donald Trump just won re-election for 202... Read More
What The Times Misses About Poverty Sep. 14, 2018
It's an affecting story. Matthew Desmond, writing in The New York Times Magazine, profiles Vanessa S... Read More
There Is No Wage Stagnation. It's a Liberal Myth Sep. 04, 2018
It has become axiomatic that wages are stagnant in the U.S. and have been so for 20 years. If you co... Read More
Working for Tips Aug. 01, 2018
Union protestors and celebrity advocates have decided that waiters' tips aren't big enough. They ar... Read More
Immigration Policy Both Nasty and Ineffectual Jun. 05, 2018
President Trump's sound and fury on immigration has delivered close to nothing. Trump never lets up,... Read More
Remember When? May. 11, 2018
President Donald Trump claims that people are illegally pouring into our country from Mexico. That's... Read More
A New Lesson Plan in West Virginia Mar. 07, 2018
What a glorious thing, watching West Virginia teachers, most of them women, shut down the state's pu... Read More
Tip Thievery, Codified Feb. 07, 2018
Fourteen years ago, I wrote a column about a tip jar in Cleveland and how the managers too... Read More
The Out-of-Touch Party Jan. 19, 2018
Democrats are out of touch. They made that abundantly clear when every liberal lawmaker rejected the... Read More
Will Trump's Order Help US Tech Workers or Not? Apr. 20, 2017
Let's describe the problem with an example. A few years ago, Southern California Edison employed 300... Read More
International Trade Thuggery Jan. 18, 2017
President-elect Donald Trump's threats against American companies looking to relocate in foreign cou... Read More
Hillary's Red Army March of Tax-Hike Destruction Oct. 01, 2016
You've got to hand it to Team Hillary Clinton. Its message discipline is awesome — at least in... Read More
Apple, Wal-Mart and Workers Jun. 22, 2016
Dear Mr. Berko: Since getting out of college in 2013, I've been working at Wal-Mart in Florida, maki... Read More
Keep the Labor Market Flexible to Maintain Productivity Jun. 02, 2016
One of the assets of the American economic model is a relatively flexible labor market, especially w... Read More
Our View: Wage Compression a Real Issue May. 13, 2016
Dan Price, owner of Seattle-based company Gravity Payments, made a splash last year when he announce... Read More
Anticipating the Effects of Overtime, Over Time Mar. 17, 2016
Wouldn't it be nice if your boss were forced to pay you more because the government said so? Not if ... Read More
Bernie Sanders' Free Trade Mythology Mar. 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders' upset victory in Michigan came just two days after he stood on the debate stage in t... Read More
Democrats Must Also Address Illegal Immigration Jan. 12, 2016
As respectable Republicans panic over Donald Trump's storm of insults against Hispanics, Democrats m... Read More
Do Remote Bosses Cause Inequality? Sep. 17, 2015
Could there be a reason for the widening pay gap that's not exactly economic? There could be. The em... Read More
Good Intentions and Unintended Effects of the Minimum Wage Jul. 30, 2015
In November 2016, District of Columbia voters may get a chance to vote on a proposal to raise the ho... Read More
