News March 9, 2012

Wage Hikes Won’t Boost the Economy

By: Joseph Sabia, San Diego State University Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has introduced a bill that would add New York to the list of states whose minimum wage rises with inflation each year. His proposal follows last year’s New York City-specific plan to create a “living wage”…
News March 9, 2012

Maximum Damage

Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver is pushing for a whopping 17 percent hike in New York’s minimum wage, to $8.50 an hour. How out of touch with reality is that? If Albany moves ahead with such a plan, it will wreak substantial damage on the state’s teetering economy, hurting most the…