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A story about national minimum wage proposals references research by Arindrajit Dube, economics, and colleagues that found raising the minimum wage is not a disincentive in hiring.

A story about national minimum wage proposals references research by Arindrajit Dube, economics, and colleagues that found raising the minimum wage is not a disincentive in hiring. (NPR, 4/23/19)

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Something unusual has just happened. The current Economic Report of the President has devoted one full chapter to attacking socialism, under the title “Markets versus Socialism” writes E. Ahmet Tonak, economics.

Something unusual has just happened. The current Economic Report of the President (March 2019; henceforth Economic Report) has devoted one full chapter to attacking socialism, under the title “Markets versus Socialism.”[1]The only intellectually honest part of the Economic Report is the reason given for allocating no less than 45 pages to socialism writes E. Ahmet Tonak, economics.

https://mronline.org/2019/04/23/socialism-in-the-economic-report-of-the-president/#lightbox/0/