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Confirmed? Raising minimum wage increases unemployment

By Steve McGough / August 2, 2008 /

Here’s another great new learning opportunity for readers. If you owned a small business that employed 10 teenagers, how important is the payroll line in your budget? A majority of teens make minimum wage while they scoop ice cream, mow lawns and work at fast food joints. Many of these employees are paid more than…

Minimum wage not working so well for minority youths

By Steve McGough / May 10, 2011 /

The American people are being sold a bill of goods – lied to – concerning the effects of a minimum wage. Federal and state minimum wage mandates do nothing to help provide a “living wage” nor does it do anything to improve the overall employment picture. Walter E. Williams’ column today discusses how this government…

The economics of the minimum wage

By Steve McGough / March 8, 2010 / Comments Off on The economics of the minimum wage

I’ve written frequently about decisions that must be made when costs increase for owners and managers of business. Increased costs include mandated government minimum wages, and Ball State University recently published a policy brief on who lost the jobs when the minimum wage increased.

Minimum Wage… President Obama, where does the extra $3 come from?

By Steve McGough / March 3, 2014 /

It’s a very honest question, but my guess is nobody – not one person – will dare to ask President Obama when he arrives at my alma mater on Wednesday. When you arbitrarily increase the minimum wage one, two or three dollars per hour, where does the money come from? On Feb. 4, Gov. D.P.…

More demands by Democrats for a higher minimum wage (yawn…)

By Steve McGough / July 30, 2012 /

Hey, it’s an election year … why not. Late last week 100 House Democrats all got together and introduced legislation to increase the minimum wage. We’ve documented the ridiculousness of increasing the minimum wage here at RVO for years, so we’re just going to point out the obvious.

Redux – the economics of the minimum wage – McMahon vs Blumenthal Senate race

By Steve McGough / October 7, 2010 /

Since Jim’s discussing the minimum wage this morning – and looking for callers to argue against his point of view on the topic – I figured I would provide a few links to past posts here on Radio Vice Online concerning the minimum wage.

Is the minimum wage increase helping?

By Steve McGough / September 27, 2009 / Comments Off on Is the minimum wage increase helping?

Yeah, don’t think so. So much for the increase in the minimum wage that happened in July. I’m NOT saying the increase in the federal minimum wage directly caused the problem, but the unemployment rate for the 16 – 24 age bracket now stands at 52.2 percent.

The $15 per hour minimum wage experiment comes to SeaTac

By Steve McGough / November 6, 2013 /

Let’s see how this goes during the next two to three years shall we? It’s not a done deal, but SeaTac Proposition 1 looks like it will pass, requiring businesses to pay hospitality and transportation workers a minimum wage of $15 per hour. The previous minimum wage was $9.19, but I’m not sure what the average pay…

Raising the minimum wage making things worse

By Steve McGough / December 15, 2008 /

Back in August, I wrote about how raising the minimum wage can increase unemployment since government mandated wage increases puts a strain on small businesses, increases prices and deflates buying power. Today, Morrissey over at Hot Air brings us news of a new book written by a professor of economics and an associate director of…

Obama on poverty: Let’s just get rid of it by raising the minimum wage!

By Steve McGough / February 13, 2013 /

Brilliant! I consider myself a relatively smart person, I know a lot of things about a few subjects and I’ve dabbled a little bit when it comes to running a small business, working for Fortune 50s, and even helping out at start-ups … but I never had the idea to raise the minimum wage to…