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Issues Forum: Labor

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How the Next President Can Improve Labor and Employment Policy

September 26, 2016

With the presidential election heading into the first debate, what can the next president do to improve national labor and employment policy? The single most important action the president can make is appoint competent, non-partisan officials to the primary federal labor agencies—the Department of Labor (DOL) and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). It is necessary […]

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Bernie Sanders Commits The Democratic Party Platform To The Disastrous $15 An Hour Minimum Wage

July 11, 2016

This is really not good news at all – Bernie Sanders and his supporters have managed to commit the Democratic policy platform for the coming elections to the appalling idea of a national, Federal, $15 an hour minimum wage. Yes, I know, the general consensus these days is that raising the minimum wage is a […]

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Advisor Stephen Moore

Advisor Stephen Moore

Focusing on paychecks

February 28, 2016

If Donald Trump’s gravity-defying ascendancy has validated anything, it is that for middle America, jobs and economic security are still the dominant issue. Republicans have talked up tax reform, regulatory relief and fiscal restraint — and those are all critical to growth. But it’s time for Republicans to expand their portfolio of issues and concentrate […]

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Labor

A Union Fight For More Members, Not A $15 Minimum Wage

November 24, 2015

On the same day union-backed demonstrators in Detroit used a mockup of boxer Joe Louis’ fist to punch out Ronald McDonald, the Michigan state Senate passed two bills to protect the independence of small business. What do the two have in common? The November 10 union protests in several cities across the country called for […]

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Sorry, Bernie Sanders. Raising the Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour Wouldn’t Create Millions of Jobs. But It Might Destroy Them.

October 14, 2015

On several occasions during last night’s Democratic presidential debate, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist whose populist presidential campaign has posted surprisingly strong numbers all summer, voiced support for raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. “In my view,” Sanders said at one point, “what we need to do is create […]

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