Our first HELP event was held August 29th through Labor Day. It was scheduled to reduce the impact of the Fast Food Strike promoted by organized labor on August 29th. We know that tens of thousands of emails were forwarded…

The proponents of minimum wages, and the living wage movement itself, are demanding that entry-level employees be paid more. The current protest is for $15 per hour. While it might be convenient if everyone could be paid more than their…

August 28th, 2013 is the fiftieth anniversary of the famous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. However, looking back, we should also recognize another momentous anniversary—the seventy-fifth anniversary of the passage of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, because…

People can gain credibility for job advancement in two basic ways—experience or education. And experience is generally superior to education, because it demonstrates skills that apply directly to the job. That’s why for some people it’s a good strategy to…

In his classic discussion of minimum wage laws Milton Friedman described an unholy coalition between well-meaning sponsors, and special interests. The special interests use the well-meaning sponsors as front-men to promote minimum wage laws to the public at large. However,…