Extra Unemployment Ends

Here in Colorado several restaurateurs wrote a letter to Governor Jared Polis earlier this summer asking him to join the other states that ended the extra unemployment benefits enacted in response to the global Covid-19 panic. Their theory was that the higher unemployment checks were keeping restaurant workers on the …

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Job Losses Now Due to Market :)

Not too long ago, I wrote about how context in articles and statistics is critical regarding the huge boom in employment in North Dakota. Now, North Dakota and a handful of other states lead the U.S. in job losses. Of course, not too long ago, the gains in these states …

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Higher Minimum Wage in 2016

We’ve talked a bit about minimum wage increases here before. In particular, I’m interested in the effects these minimum wage increases end up having. Most reports you read, whether positive or negative, are pretty much pure speculation, or cherry picking of data to fit an agenda. The reality is that …

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