FreedomWorks-Led Coalition To Congress: Oppose Any Increase in the Federal Minimum Wage
Today, FreedomWorks led more than two dozen policy and advocacy organizations in asking members of Congress to reject any increase in the federal minimum wage. Organizational signers to the letter…
Key Vote NO on the Democrats’ Partisan Reconciliation Package, H.R. 1319
On behalf of FreedomWorks activists nationwide, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to vote NO on the House spending package being advanced under budget reconciliation, dubbed…
Budget Reconciliation and a Business-Crippling Minimum Wage Increase
Before taking office, President Joe Biden rolled out a proposed COVID-19 relief proposal that includes some long-held priorities of so-called “progressive” Democrats. One of those priorities is a $15 per…
Venezuela is Socialism’s Last Nail in the Coffin
From a so-called “economic miracle” to a human rights disaster, Venezuela has followed in the footsteps of literally every single socialist or communist country ever with its country…
Seattle Buries Inconvenient Truths From Own Minimum Wage Study
People have a bizarre way of deflecting criticism. In some cases, when they hear something that questions their worldview, they will go so far as to pretend it does not…
Seattle Finds Raising the Minimum Wage Was a Mistake
For the second time this year, a city has found that there are no quick fixes to addressing poverty and raising wages. Recently, the city of Seattle funded…
The Mayor of Baltimore Kills Job Killing Minimum Wage Hike
On Friday, March 24, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh vetoed a new $15 minimum wage that would have been implemented by 2022. This makes passing the measure’s future in serious…
How Mainstream Economics Misleads the Public
Earlier this week, I wrote a piece about how Bernie Sanders’ economic policies have come under criticism by a number of progressive economists for their unrealistic math, While it…
Six Unbelievable Claims in Obama’s State of the Union Speech
The annual State of the Union Speech is an opportunity for the president to update the country on the progress made in the last year, as well as lay out…
Presidential Candidates Should Tell the Truth about the Minimum Wage
In this week’s Republican Presidential debate on CNN, a couple of the candidates took a brief time-out from slinging personal attacks and responding to trivia to address some actual issues…