Clamping Down on the Labor Extortion Racket

Clamping Down on the Labor Extortion Racket

This Labor Day, you can mull some good news about American jobs for a change. Take the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour — please! That poverty pay is a shameful stain on our extremely rich nation. But don’t count on Washington, D.C. to lift our wage floor....
In OtherWords: August 13, 2014

In OtherWords: August 13, 2014

This week in OtherWords, William A. Collins and I explain why most efforts to block the spread of green energy are losing and Ron Carver reflects on how Mississippi has (and hasn’t) changed half a century after the Freedom Summer. Our longtime columnist Donald...