Think tanks

Think tanks

Cry Wolf Quotes

[RGGI is] regulation without representation.

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Lawrence Kogan, director of the Princeton, N.J.-based Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development (ITSSD)

By contrast, the dissent’s argument that a discrimination plaintiff can sue based on each paycheck she receives, if her current paycheck was somehow affected by discrimination in the distant past, would allow plaintiffs to sue based on discrimination that occurred decades before, even if the employer is innocent, the alleged discriminators have all died, and the employer no longer has access to any evidence that could vindicate it…That is fundamentally unfair, and at odds with the whole purpose of having a statute of limitations.

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The Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Minimum wage laws may very well be the most anti-poor laws envisioned by modern government policymakers.

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LaFaive, Michael D., Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
11/01/1997 | Full Details | Law(s): Minimum Wage

Nonetheless, if the goal of the Coastal Zone Minimum Wage is to help low-income workers in Santa Monica, the Ordinance is worse than useless. The direct benefits of the Ordinance are more poorly targeted than in any social welfare legislation we have ever studied.

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Richard H Sander., E. Douglass Williams, and Joseph Doherty. City of Los Angeles.
10/01/2002 | Full Details | Law(s): Living Wage