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Civic Skunk Works
Because conventional wisdom stinks.
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Civic Skunk Works
Nov 22, 2023
The Price of Bad Economics
The Pitch: Economic Update for November 22nd, 2023
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Oct 20, 2021
Giant retailers like Walmart rob American consumers of choice
Here’s how antitrust regulation could…
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Civic Skunk Works
Mar 3, 2021
How the fight over ‘hero pay’ for grocery workers reveals chain stores’ massive corporate greed
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Mar 21, 2018
A Lesson for Our Leaders: Looking Back Is No Way to Plan for the Future
Here’s something regressive states need to learn: when you plan for the future, the future welcomes you.
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Jan 9, 2018
The Most Important Minimum Wage Paper in Decades Is Good News for Everyone
A new study looks at 137 minimum-wage increases and finds that they had no negative effect on employment.
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Dec 19, 2017
The Restaurant Industry Will Spend Millions to Tell You They Can’t Afford to Pay Workers
What a secret conservative memo teaches us about the desperate fight against a $15 minimum wage
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Jun 26, 2017
From Starbucks to More Bucks
New report shows that Seattle is eliminating low wages, not low-wage…
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Apr 28, 2017
The Top One Percent Is Sick of Your Bad Attitude, America
When bankers and tech leaders whine about…
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Paul Constant
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Apr 10, 2017
The United Story Isn’t About Customer Service. It’s About Class Warfare.
When corporations can openly beat their customers and deny them service, why would they even bother trying to be nice?
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Mar 3, 2017
Yes, Retail Is Dying. No, It’s Not Because of the Minimum Wage.
What Sears is doing wrong (and what…
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