“We find suggestive evidence that a higher minimum wage leads to overall increases in restaurant exit rates – depending on the specification, we find that a $1 increase in the minimum wage leads to approximately a 4 to 10 percent increase in the likelihood of exit,” Dara Lee Luca and Michael Luca wrote in the study.
A study on the increasing minimum wage in Seattle, Wash., found that the low-income workers in the city actually have been losing an average of $125 per month since the hike went into effect.
Ads for attorneys have become big business for local broadcasters but there’s an effort in Congress to put new limits on how lawyers can advertise medical-related topics. The concern raised by the House Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice during a hearing on Friday is whether the attorneys’ commercials are frightening people to the point where they stop taking lifesaving drugs prescribed to them.
The complaint also cites unnamed studies that said that the collapse was a “seismic event,” and “caused by what many would characterize as an earthquake.” It notes that when Murray got to the mine after the collapse, the University of Utah was saying that an earthquake had taken place less than five miles away from the mine.
Any legal firearm owner could carry it concealed without a permit or mandatory training under a controversial plan the Michigan House approved Wednesday.
The Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) announced on Tuesday it will appeal a district court’s decision to dismiss their $12 million defamation suit against Katie Couric.
The House Oversight Committee released a report Wednesday that took former Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department to task over Operation Fast and Furious, a gun-running operation that went wrong, Fox News reported.
In an effort to increase its ranks and convince reluctant soldiers to re-enlist, the Army will triple the amount of bonuses it’s paying this year to more than $380 million, according to the Associated Press. Some soldiers could get as much as $90,000 up front by committing to another four or more years.
They’ve been trying to sell it as a ‘respectful’ protest the week leading up to the commencement. That is a lie. If they didn’t want to hear Pence speak, they didn’t have to show up. You graduate either way. This was designed to get them attention, and be disrespectful not just to the former Governor, and current Vice President, but to be disrespectful to everyone else in attendance. It was a pathetic ‘look at me!’ moment.
A watchdog group called Citizens for Common Sense has threatened a lawsuit over households being charged on their property tax bills for St. Joseph County’s curbside recycling program.
Groups that want to legalize recreational marijuana and repeal a law that requires union-level wages on state-financed building projects can begin gathering voter signatures.
In one Detroit Precinct, a recount team was given a box of ballots with an unbroken seal where everything appeared proper and in place. The tag on the box said there were 306 ballots. The book said 306, and the ticket said 306, so that means there should be 306 paper ballots on the box. When they pulled out the ballots, there were exactly FIFTY paper ballots in a locked sealed box that again was supposed to have 306. The official canvasser approved count for this precinct was 306. For FIFTY ballots.
The Michigan Court of Appeals agreed that Jill Stein is not an aggrieved candidate and the recount must stop.
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When your business model is to smear good people as bigots without any evidence on a near-constant basis, I have no sympathy when your chickens come home to roost.
Even more distinctive, however, was the diner’s business model. Described as “communistic” by a post on its Facebook page, the business was run as a collective, which according to Cappelletti meant it was worker-owned, therefore having no bosses. Bemoaning the inequality in pay between employees in different areas of most restaurants, he stated of the diner: “We’re going to have equal pay and equal say across the board. Everyone working together.”
U.S. District Judge Joseph Bianco has struck down the Marine Corps’ attempt to drum Maj. Jason Brezler out of the service for sending classified information via email to warn about a sexually deviant and potentially dangerous Afghan police chief.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate professional wrestling magnate and former Senate candidate Linda McMahon as his choice to head the Small Business Administration, transition officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
Breitbart Senior Editor and resident gay thot MILO will visit Memories Pizza tomorrow at 4PM EST, where he will – in his own words – “apologize on behalf of the normal gays.”
President-elect Donald Trump may have been able to keep 800 jobs at the Carrier furnace factory in Indianapolis but the chief executive of Carrier’s parent company says there will ultimately be fewer jobs at the factory.
It turns out that sometimes openly advocating a constitutional crisis through the breathtaking and illegitimate arrogation of power is just peachy, so long as it’s intended to “save the country from fascists,” as this post from a left-wing fringe site puts it:
Republican leaders managed to derail impeachment of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen on Tuesday, forcing the debate back to a committee for more study, where it will die when Congress adjourns at the end of this year.
