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The nasty nature of the minimum wage and other do-gooder ideas

I was recently reminded of a point made by esteemed economist (the late) Walter E. Williams, concerning the impact of the minimum wage laws on young black Americans’ employment. At the time he wrote, black youth employment was four times … Continue reading

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Baker’s Dozen: ALL Black Lives DO Matter

by Nathan Barton, from an idea by D. Pettis, a reader. Author’s Note: I drafted this a couple of weeks ago. Since then, the news pages have been (as always) filled with a steady stream of photos of dead black … Continue reading

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