Employment
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Big Law Firms Face Legal Reckoning Over Race Preferences
Title VII makes it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of race. But many firms’ efforts to ‘increase diversity’ did exactly that.
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The Never-Ending Myth of the “Rich Getting Richer”
Shaping policies around resentment and envy of the rich does more harm than good. Most ‘inequality’ statistics misdiagnose the issue.
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What Film Financing Tells Us About Politics
States offer steep subsidies to the film industry. But special interest groups extract these concentrated benefits at the cost of jobs in every other field.
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Starbucks Baristas Were Secretly Recording Co-Workers. But a Court Says It was Illegal to Fire Them
The pair claimed they couldn’t be fired, even when they were hostile to customers and secretly recorded their supervisors. Unfortunately, a Circuit court agreed.
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Has Generation Z Gotten a Raw Economic Deal?
Young people are struggling with high car and home prices, but still live better than their peers of the past. Perhaps lifestyle choices are driving their discontent.
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Want Progress? Lose the Spoon Jobs
Productivity means learning to do more work with less labor. The only way to gain jobs is to lose jobs.
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Trump’s Minimum Wage Remarks Highlight the Flaws in Federal Mandates
Uniform wage laws destroy jobs, raise prices, and make automation more attractive….and that’s among the businesses that survive.
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The Pork Barrel Politics of the Department of Education
The department is designed to provide material and political benefits to the teachers’ unions, not to improve student outcomes.
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Job Seekers Face Tough Market, While Government Gaslights Them About It
Americans’ continued frustrations are at odds with reports of a strong, stable job market.
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What That Viral Starbucks Barista Doesn’t Understand about Risk
The tweeting employee fails to understand that she is taking on almost no risk and is being compensated accordingly.
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Big Law Firms Face Legal Reckoning Over Race Preferences
Title VII makes it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of race. But many firms’ efforts to ‘increase diversity’ did exactly that.
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The Never-Ending Myth of the “Rich Getting Richer”
Shaping policies around resentment and envy of the rich does more harm than good. Most ‘inequality’ statistics misdiagnose the issue.
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What Film Financing Tells Us About Politics
States offer steep subsidies to the film industry. But special interest groups extract these concentrated benefits at the cost of jobs in every other field.
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Starbucks Baristas Were Secretly Recording Co-Workers. But a Court Says It was Illegal to Fire Them
The pair claimed they couldn’t be fired, even when they were hostile to customers and secretly recorded their supervisors. Unfortunately, a Circuit court agreed.
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Has Generation Z Gotten a Raw Economic Deal?
Young people are struggling with high car and home prices, but still live better than their peers of the past. Perhaps lifestyle choices are driving their discontent.
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Want Progress? Lose the Spoon Jobs
Productivity means learning to do more work with less labor. The only way to gain jobs is to lose jobs.
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•
Trump’s Minimum Wage Remarks Highlight the Flaws in Federal Mandates
Uniform wage laws destroy jobs, raise prices, and make automation more attractive….and that’s among the businesses that survive.
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•
The Pork Barrel Politics of the Department of Education
The department is designed to provide material and political benefits to the teachers’ unions, not to improve student outcomes.
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•
Job Seekers Face Tough Market, While Government Gaslights Them About It
Americans’ continued frustrations are at odds with reports of a strong, stable job market.
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What That Viral Starbucks Barista Doesn’t Understand about Risk
The tweeting employee fails to understand that she is taking on almost no risk and is being compensated accordingly.