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America's Highest Minimum Wage Sparks Fight in Small California City America's Highest Minimum Wage Sparks Fight in Small California City
Mon, August, 5, 2019
Time to move to Emeryville, California? Jim Carlton of the WSJ details the city with the country's highest minimum wage, and the national economic debate that is now coming along with it.
In St. Louis, a Rare Effort to Lower the Minimum Wage In St. Louis, a Rare Effort to Lower the Minimum Wage
Tue, August, 29, 2017
St. Louis has reversed an effort to raise the the minimum wage. Eric Morath from the Wall Street Journal has the story.
Has the movement to raise the Minimum Wage reached its limit? Has the movement to raise the Minimum Wage reached its limit?
Mon, April, 10, 2017
Wall Street Journal Economics reporter Eric Morath says many small towns across the country are pumping the brakes on raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. He joins us with more.
Most Americans Aren't Middle Class Anymore Most Americans Aren't Middle Class Anymore
Fri, December, 11, 2015
Ben Casselman from FiveThirtyEight.com evaluates new data that shows the American middle class has shrunk even smaller.
Donald Trump's Huge Debate Blunder Donald Trump's Huge Debate Blunder
Thu, November, 12, 2015
Josh Kraushaar from National Journal discusses Donald Trump's surprising shift in opinion during Tuesday's debate and how those comments may negatively affect him going forward.
Fixing Income Inequality without the Minimum Wage Fixing Income Inequality without the Minimum Wage
Tue, May, 26, 2015
University of Maryland's Peter Morici explains some ways to fix income inequality.