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  • Minneapolis Mayhem Infiltrates Both Streets and Government

    Minneapolis Mayhem Infiltrates Both Streets and Government0

    In Minneapolis last week, the death of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, in police custody led to days of rioting and looting in Minneapolis and in cities across the nation. Many are saying that this incident is one more sign of American racism. Others have declared the riots are justified, the natural and spontaneous

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  • Minneapolis Ignores the Real Problem Underlying Increase in Violent Child Deaths

    Minneapolis Ignores the Real Problem Underlying Increase in Violent Child Deaths0

    The city that witnessed the death of George Floyd is seeing more deaths this year, only this time they aren’t those of a full-grown man arrested for passing a counterfeit bill: they are the deaths of children caught in crossfire. The most recent death was that of six-year-old Aniya Allen, who was shot in the

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  • Minimum Wage Set to Fall in St. Louis

    Minimum Wage Set to Fall in St. Louis0

    Via CBS News: Cities all over the United States have been boosting their minimum wage. It’s up to $15 an hour in Seattle, but it’s going in the opposite direction in St. Louis, Missouri.  Amer Hawatmeh’s family-owned restaurant in downtown St. Louis is struggling. Along with rising sales taxes, and meat prices, a minimum wage

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  • Minimum Wage Hike to $15 Wipes Out Jobs in Illinois and New York

    Minimum Wage Hike to $15 Wipes Out Jobs in Illinois and New York0

    Big minimum wage hikes wipe out a lot of jobs. Illinois recently enacted a $15 minimum wage, a large increase in the minimum wage that will be phased in over several years. And businesses are already announcing plans to close up, move out of the state, or curb their expansion in the state. The Daily Gazette

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  • Milton Friedman Was Right to Call Them ‘Government Schools’

    Milton Friedman Was Right to Call Them ‘Government Schools’0

    Today is Milton Friedman’s birthday. He was the 1976 Nobel-prize winning economist who promoted free-market ideals and limited government. The Economist called him “the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century…possibly of all of it.” He died in 2006, but one of his lasting legacies is EdChoice, formerly the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice,

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  • Milton Friedman on ‘the Major Fault of the Collectivist Philosophy’

    Milton Friedman on ‘the Major Fault of the Collectivist Philosophy’0

    Economist and University of Chicago professor Milton Friedman (1912 – 2006) spent more than 30 years teaching, and won the Nobel Prize in 1976 for his contributions in the field of economics. He was also one of the first intellectuals to see cracks forming in 20th-century collectivism. In his 1951 essay “Neo-Liberalism and its Prospects,”

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