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85% of the studies on minimum wage increases show a “negative employment effect on low-skilled workers.”

[I]f Democrats want to continue to push for higher minimum wages, with the resulting higher unemployment, they should stop claiming to have any scientific backing for the position and just admit that they want to redistribute from one group of Americans to another group of Americans (mostly those in organized labor), and leave it at that.

Unemployment among this generation is frighteningly high all over the eurozone. These people are wandering and lost. They are slumming and rioting from Athens to London, and not one politician in power has a viable plan for what to do about it.

[M]ost people in this age range [16-24] do not work at all. Forget 19%; the problem affects 52%. That’s an incredible fact.

“The biggest enemy of poor people and people in general is the United States government” -Walter Williams discusses his new book “Race and Economics: How Much Can Be blamed on Discrimination?”

As if more proof were needed about the minimum wage’s devastating effects, yet another study has reached the same conclusion.

John Stossel on how government does more harm than good.

by Walter E. Williams
Tragically, minimum wages have the unquestioned support of good-hearted, well-meaning people with little understanding who become the useful idiots of charlatans, quacks and racists.

So long as most people do not look beyond superficial appearances, politicians can get away with playing Santa Claus on all sorts of issues, while leaving havoc in their wake– such as growing unemployment, despite all the jobs being “created.”