Wages in America

Cutting Unemployment Benefits Does Not Increase Employment (September 1, 2021)

Finding it Hard to Hire? Try Raising Your Wages (May 6, 2021)

Shifting Balance of Power? (April 16 2021)

Minimum Wage Solution: $12/hour with COLA (February 12, 2021)

The Puzzle in the Labor Data.  (July 1, 2019)

Minimum Wage Increases Do Not Destroy Jobs January 24, 2019 (Bloomberg)

Long Awaited Wage Increases Have Arrived January 7, 2019 (Bloomberg)

Where’s Your Raise? It Should Be Coming (July 18, 2018)

Wages Accelerating (February 28, 2018)

Bigger Raises Might Be Coming in 2018 (Bloomberg, January 8, 2018)

The Overhyped Seattle Minimum-Wage Disaster (July 10, 2017) Bloomberg

The Middle-Class Squeeze Isn’t Made Up (February 15, 2017)

Be Patient. Pay Raises Are Coming. (Bloomberg, February 3, 2017)

Minimum-Wage Foes Tripped Up by Facts (December 7, 2016) Bloomberg

Bigger Paychecks Are Coming (November 7, 2016) Bloomberg

Doomsayers Keep Getting It Wrong on Higher Minimum Wages (October 21, 2016) Bloomberg

Recovery is (Finally) Driving Median Incomes Higher (September 14, 2016)

Can’t Find Qualified Applicants? Raise Your Pay! (September 8, 2016)

We’ll Find Out Soon If Higher Minimum Wages Kill Jobs (March 4, 2016) Bloomberg

Historical Perspective on the Minimum Wage (March 3, 2016)

Wal-Mart’s Minimum Wage Breakdown (Bloomberg, February 23, 2015)

Wal-Mart’s Pay Raises Are Paying Dividends (Bloomberg, June 11, 2015)

America’s Corporate Welfare Queens (BloombergNovember 13, 2013)