Amr Alfiky - Pool / Getty Images You'll Pay More at This Popular Restaurant if a Minimum Wage Hike Is Implemented 'Ultimately in any business, the customer pays for everything,' one restaurant industry CEO said. Let this be a reminder of that maxim. By C. Douglas Golden April 26, 2021
J. Scott Applewhite / AP Job-Killing Minimum Wage Proposals, Led by Democrats, Sweep Across the US Well over half of US states are either set to implement minimum wage increases or have pending bills that would accomplish that goal. By Michael Austin April 23, 2021
Joe Raedle / Getty Images Los Angeles Shoots Own Workers in the Foot, Store Closings Spark Wave of Layoffs as $5 'Hero Pay' Bump Goes Into Effect 'It’s never our desire to close a store, but when you factor in the increased costs ... it becomes impossible to operate these three stores.' By Cameron Arcand March 12, 2021
CNN / YouTube screen shot Biden Voter: The Bombs in Syria Are Kinda Expensive for a Dude Who Owes Me $2,000 'A lot of my friends are really frustrated' with President Joe Biden, a young Democrat told CNN. By Samantha Chang March 8, 2021
Scott Olson / Getty Images Study: Increasing Minimum Wage Led to Higher Prices at McDonalds A study looked at what happened at various McDonald's restaurants when the minimum wage went up, and the results might surprise you. By Jack Davis March 8, 2021
Sarah Silbiger - Pool / Getty Images Democrats Turn on Each Other, Kill $15 Minimum Wage Effort Dead in Senate Senate Democrats who opposed a minimum wage increase are feeling the heat from progressives in their own party now. By Jack Davis March 6, 2021
Stefani Reynolds - Pool / Getty Images 8 Liberal Senators Join GOP in Killing $15 Minimum Wage Since these eight liberal senators joined Republicans in voting against the minimum wage provision, the bill can still be passed via majority. By Grant Atkinson March 5, 2021
Win McNamee / Getty Images David Harsanyi: The $22 Minimum Wage in Denmark That AOC Likes Comes with Taxes You Wouldn't Believe 'This popular progressive talking point about Denmark's miracle middle-class fast-food worker doesn't make much sense to begin with.' By David Harsanyi March 4, 2021
Seth Wenig / AP AOC: $15 Minimum Wage Is Too Low - It Should Be $24 Ocasio-Cortez said that a $15 minimum wage is a ‘compromise,’ and offered up a $24 per hour minimum wage instead. By Kipp Jones March 4, 2021
Leigh Vogel - Pool / Getty Images Dick Morris: Biden's Losing the Senate President Biden and the Democrats' hold on the Senate might be even weaker than it appears, Dick Morris argues. By Dick Morris February 26, 2021