Posts Tagged 'labor'

Made in America Panel Connects the Lack of Jobs with Over Regulation

Made in America Panel Connects the Lack of Jobs with Over Regulation

Host Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 70 stations) with the sobering news that America has the lowest percentage of working Americans since 1977. Only 62 percent of Americans are in the workforce, with some 93 million sitting on the sidelines.

The first guest on Made in America was former Maryland congressman Albert Witt, who suggested that the race troubles in Baltimore and in other major cities can be attributed ...

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Made in America Panel Proposes That Immigration Policy Must Encourage More Highly Trained Workers to Come to America

Made in America Panel Proposes That Immigration Policy Must Encourage More Highly Trained Workers to Come to America

Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 44 stations) by warning about the administration’s “selective sequestration” whereby they play the victim of budget cuts but proceed to spend money on questionable programs.

Joining the show as a first time guest was John Berlau, Senior Fellow for Finance and Access to Capital in the Center for Economic Freedom at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who has reported that members of the House Agriculture ...

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Raising the Minimum Wage Brings Minimum Benefits

Raising the Minimum Wage Brings Minimum Benefits

The president made the case during his most recent State of the Union address that the way to prosperity was to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour by 2015, from $7.25, where it has been since 2009. The rationale is that raising the minimum wage would help the middle class and businesses alike.

If that were the case, how do we explain the fact that since the federal minimum wage was instituted in 1938, it has been raised ...

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The Rise of the Working Poor

The Rise of the Working Poor

It’s time to have a conversation in this country about how we define jobs. Is any job a good job? Some would say yes, but I don’t think America should be staking its future on creating poor-paying jobs just to make the unemployment numbers look good.

There are currently 26 million unemployed or underemployed Americans. For them the Obama economy has been very painful and unforgiving.

According to a report in The Huffington Post, 43 percent of households in America —some 127.5 ...

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Dockworkers Could Throw US off Another Cliff

Dockworkers Could Throw US off Another Cliff

Taking temporary measures to prevent tumbling off the fiscal cliff, extending the milk subsidy, delaying sequestration and partially extending the Bush tax cuts are examples of stopgap measures undertaken to prevent further economic damage.

However, the United States is involved in another stopgap negotiation that could wreak havoc on the economy that few in the media are talking about.

Although it received little attention, last Friday the International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance agreed to extend the terms of their ...

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