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Oregon's 12.1% Unemployment, 2nd Highest in US: Is The $8.40 Per Hour Minimum Wage to Blame?

That’s the excellent question being asked by The Oregonian . Is Oregon's high minimum wage partially to blame for the state's 12.1% unemployment rate, second highest in the nation (only Michigan is higher at 12.6%, see chart above of Oregon's jobless rate in blue vs. US rate in red...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 04-19-2009
Paychecks for Nearly 20,000 Idaho Jobs Will Rise With Minimum Wage Hike

They didn’t discuss how minimum wage laws reduce employment for low-skilled workers — which would be mostly teens. And just what we need and want: teens unable to work. From the Idaho Department of Commerce and Labor Office of Science and Technology: The Idaho Department of Labor estimates...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 07-25-2007
John Edwards Wants a $9 Minimum Wage

Why not just completely eliminate poverty and mandate that everyone make $25 per hour? Let’s just get this whole poverty thing out of the way. If everyone were making $50,000 per year, we’d all be middle class, and the lower class would be abolished. A liberal dream… From the American...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 07-24-2007
The Media’s Snapshot View

Via Cato : An AP story on the minimum wage begins, all too typically: The nation’s lowest-paid workers will soon find extra money in their pockets as the minimum wage rises 70 cents to $5.85 an hour today, the first increase in a decade. Some versions of the AP story, though not the ones that ran...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 07-24-2007
Forcing Government Children into the Military

A letter to the editor from Donald J. Boudreaux , Chair of the Department of Economics, George Mason University: Rep. Charles Rangel believes that by forcing the children and grandchildren of high government officials into the military , the draft would reduce Uncle Sam's likelihood of going to war...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 07-19-2007
Democrats' Momentum Is Stalling: Amid Iraq Debate, Priorities On Domestic Agenda Languish

From the Washington Post : In the heady opening weeks of the 110th Congress, the Democrats' domestic agenda appeared to be flying through the Capitol : Homeland security upgrades, a higher minimum wage and student loan interest rate cuts all passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. But now that initial...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 05-06-2007
Sali spends first 100 days in Congress mending fences, not making waves

From today's Idaho Statesman : One hundred days into Sali's term in Congress, the combative evangelical conservative remains as determined as ever to "reform" the Beltway culture, though so far with little of his trademark bluster. As if to prove the point, one of his first acts in Washington was to...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 04-17-2007
Only A Tiny Bite of Cake

On V2020, Mark and Tom are showing obvious effects of having had too much Moscow water to drink. Tom is afraid of development because we don’t know how much water is in the aquifer. Until we know exactly how much water we must assume a defensive posture. Who knows what evil will befall us. What will...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Dave on 04-14-2007
re: Gone with the Wind Farm

It's like everything else in the liberal world. They are all for higher taxes, but are first in line for tax reductions and/or breaks. They complain about high prices and low service in local stores because they want the service, but will order on-line, not caring about the wage of the worker who is...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by April E. Coggins on 04-12-2007
re: Sali's voting record

I think the point is that he's powerless, and won't be able to do anything for Idaho. On the other hand, had we elected a moderate Democrat like Larry Grant, Speaker Pelosi would have had to moderate her agenda to keep him and the other "Blue Dog" Democrats in the fold. Plus, Rep. Sali just...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Bubblehead on 03-06-2007

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