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Low-income people are especially affected by inflation, economists say. While some are struggling with the rising prices of gas, food and rent, the pay for some low-wage jobs is rising.

The unofficial start of summer has arrived, but many businesses are having a hard time staffing up, leaving them frustrated as they face the rest of the season.

The True Story of the Minimum-Wage Fight (Ep. 460) April 28, 2021 @ 11:00pm Listen now: Backers of a $15 federal wage say it’s a no-brainer if you want to fight poverty. Critics say it’s a blunt instrument that leads to job loss. Even the economists can’t agree! We talk to a bunch of them — and a U.S. Senator — to sort it out, and learn there’s a much bigger problem to worry about. Listen and subscribe to our podcast at *      *      * In the U.S., the official poverty threshold is $26,500 in annual income for a family of four. For a one-person household, it’s just...

Our federal government is set to embark on a historically ambitious and astonishingly expensive infrastructure program. It might be helpful to have a conservative political party pushing back and questioning this every step of the way. It would be good for us to weigh competing ideas. Instead, we have an assemblage of carnival barkers in Washington who are going apoplectic about non-existent voter fraud, Dr. Seuss and “cancel culture,” whatever the heck that is. A conservative party might point out, as Milton Friedman used to, that a big problem with using big government spending pr...