By Richard Berman  

Last week, the City Council in Washington, D.C. voted to raise the District’s minimum wage by 30 percent to $15. Unions and their activist allies were quick to celebrate the decision. But a recent survey of 100 affected District businesses conducted by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) suggests wage hike proponents shouldn’t pop the champagne […]

Last week, labor union-backed activists protested McDonald’s shareholder meeting in Oak Brook, Illinois. Their demands were familiar: $15 and a union. The protests are part of a combined effort by the labor movement to find relevance by trying to unionize the growing service sector. While the Service Employees International Union takes the lead in trying […]

  Last week, the White House accepted a rare, bipartisan bill that addresses Puerto Rico’s dire fiscal condition. The territory is currently $70 billion in debt and has another $30 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. The bill would create a board to help restructure the territory’s debt obligations. One of the bill’s provisions lowers the […]

The dust had barely settled on Donald Trump’s apparent nomination last week when he seemingly flip-flopped on his opposition to a minimum wage increase, saying, “I am open to doing something with it you have to have something you can live on.” In his typical offensive style he also added, “I’m very different from most […]

Last Friday, Service Employees International Union chapter President David Rolf came to Washington D.C. to promote his new book, “The Fight for $15.” Predictably, the book makes the claim that more than doubling the federal minimum wage will be all gain and no pain, lifting millions of people out of poverty without costing jobs. To […]