by Lil Tuttle | Jun 17, 2015 | Economy & Jobs
By Anna Lippincott. There is a push by liberals to increase the minimum wage. President Obama proposes to boost the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, and groups such as "Fight for $15" are demanding a $15 per hour minimum wage for low-skilled workers....
by Lil Tuttle | May 20, 2015 | Economy & Jobs
As colleges graduate a fresh crop of job seekers, WalletHub released a new study analyzing and ranking the 150 most populous U.S. cities in terms of entry-level career opportunities and quality of life. Nineteen metrics — ranging from job growth rate to art/recreation...
by cblpi_admn | Apr 28, 2015 | Economy & Jobs
Journalists Eliana Johnson, Washington editor of National Review, and Katherine Kersten, attorney, writer, and former columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, discuss women in media at the Institute’s Midwest Women’s Summit in Minnesota in April...
by Lil Tuttle | Apr 13, 2015 | Economy & Jobs
Ying Ma is author of Chinese Girl in the Ghetto, a book that deals candidly with immigration, race relations, and welfare. At the age of 10, Ma and her family immigrated legally from Communist China and settled into an Oakland CA slum where they were taunted as...
by cblpi_admn | Mar 9, 2015 | Economy & Jobs, Policy Paper
By Diana Furchtgott-Roth Back in 1997, Barbara Ladeen, who was then head of the Independent Women’s Forum, said that we needed a book showing the truth about the “gender wage gap” and the “glass ceiling” in order to combat all the myths...
by Lil Tuttle | Jan 29, 2015 | Economy & Jobs
While the president claims his “Middle Class Economics” is working, economist Stephen Moore lists “a dirty bunch of hidden indicators pointing to an American economy that may be in a lot worse shape than Washington is telling us,” especially...
