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  • $15 Minimum Wage Constricts Hours Worked, as Bernie Sanders Shows

    $15 Minimum Wage Constricts Hours Worked, as Bernie Sanders Shows0

    Seventy-two percent of economists oppose a high $15 minimum wage, because it would wipe out too many jobs and result in employers restricting employees’ work hours too much. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who supports a $15 minimum wage, recently announced he would cut his staffers’ hours in order to afford paying them a $15 minimum wage. Increasing the minimum

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  • Did Portland Violate the First Amendment by Selectively Tolerating Violence?

    Did Portland Violate the First Amendment by Selectively Tolerating Violence?0

    Portland and its police may have violated the First Amendment by allowing members of the left-wing group Antifa to physically attack people, such as a conservative journalist and an elderly man. Police are not allowed to permit attacks on disfavored speakers, or permit violence by ideologically favored groups, while otherwise enforcing the law. That violates the

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  • New York Restricts Workplace Speech and Freedom of Contract

    New York Restricts Workplace Speech and Freedom of Contract0

    New York has just passed legislation that will tighten restrictions on speech in the workplace by defining it as “harassment” even if it is not harassment as the term is defined in federal law. The new definition of harassment is unconstitutionally over-broad, especially as applied to college campuses. The legislation also amends New York State

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  • New York Makes Rent Control More Severe

    New York Makes Rent Control More Severe0

    Leaders of New York’s legislature have decided to tighten rent control in New York City. They also will change the law to make it harder for landlords across the state to get rid of tenants who don’t pay their rent, or violate their leases, if those tenants can’t find similar housing in the “same neighborhood.” Economists expect this legislation

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