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05.30.2008 11:55 am

How the minimum wage hurts teen-agers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A recent research paper by the Dallas Fed may help explain why, as I noted in a recent column, teenage employment is at a 60-year low.

Economists Pia M. Orrenius, of the Dallas Fed, and Madeline Zavodny, of the University of Georgia, examine…

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02.12.2007 11:56 am

News flash: Higher wage means fewer hours

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A reader alerted me to a news story about the effects of Arizona’s minimum wage increase. The Arizona Republic reports that some employers “say payroll budgets have risen so much that they’re cutting hours, instituting hiring freezes and laying off employees.”…

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01.16.2007 2:11 pm

Study says minimum wage hurts minorities

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Regular readers know that I often question whether the minimum wage does poor people any good. A  new study is even harsher: It says minimum-wage laws  do quite a bit of harm, especially to members of minority groups.

The Employment Policies…

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01.10.2007 3:47 pm

CBO weighs in on minimum wage

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Congressional Budget Office agrees with me that the minimum wage isn’t particularly effective as a poverty-fighting tool. Here’s a key calculation: If you raised all workers earning between $5.15 and $7.24 an hour up to the Democrats’ proposed minimum wage of…

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11.30.2006 2:44 pm

Illinois climbs on minimum-wage escalator

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Illinois Senate approved  a minimum-wage increase today, ensuring that the state’s minimum will rise to $7.50 an hour on July 1 and $8.25 by 2010.  It’s currently $6.50 an hour.

 Gov. Rod Blagojevich plans to sign  the bill. In a…

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10.26.2006 4:15 pm

Helping (?) those poor fast-food workers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Talk of the Day blog features a lively conversation about the minimum-wage ballot proposal, and I continue to get a lot of email about my columns on the subject. (Read them here  and here  and here.) One correspondent, Harold, takes issue with…

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