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  • March 11, 2014
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    E-Verify Does Not “Turn Off” Job Magnet
    … The likelihood of men being employed is not much affected by E‑Verify but it does increase female employment and labor force participation – which makes sense in the context of making migration and employment decisions on the family level. Clearly …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • November 4, 2010
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    What Happens When Politicians Get a New Source of Revenue?
    … imposed by a (supposedly) Conservative Party government in 1994 at a maximum rate of 10 pounds. During the Blair/​Brown Labor Party reign, the tax was boosted to a maximum rate of 50 pounds. Now, the new government, led by …
    By Daniel J. Mitchell
  • January 13, 2017
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    Trump and Trade on the Cato Daily Podcast
    … and General Motors. Wednesday: Daniel R. Pearson discusses how multinational corporations make location decisions. For all the handwringing over cheap labor outside the United States, Pearson notes that American workers are far more productive than workers in lower-wage countries …
    By Caleb O. Brown
  • January 21, 2014
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    Scalia the Unlikely Swing Vote in Big Workers Rights Case
    … it can’t force them to pay dues to a union that negotiates Medicaid reimbursement rates. Like most of the labor cases in recent years, however, this one is likely to go 5–4. The so‐​called “liberal” justices were …
    By Ilya Shapiro
  • June 25, 2012
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    The IRS’s Illegal Employer Tax
    … tax credits and subsidies in health insurance “exchanges” created by the federal government, even though ObamaCare restricts those entitlements — explicitly, laboriously, and unambiguously — to Exchanges established by states. That illegal action has the effect of imposing ObamaCare’s $2,000 …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • June 28, 2011
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    Chained CPI: A Stealth Tax Increase
    … Index (CPI). It is widely recognized that the CPI overestimates inflation for various reasons, as discussed here. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has developed a more accurate (and lower) measure of inflation, called chained CPI. If the tax code was …
    By Chris Edwards
  • June 20, 2007
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    More Farcical Trade Remedies Cases at the ITC
    … of the biggest American manufacturers of tires for agricultural machines, went on the offensive Monday, when it (along with several labor unions) filed petitions with the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Commerce Department for relief from allegedly subsidized …
    By Daniel J. Ikenson
  • August 12, 2020
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    Worksite Immigration Enforcement Is a Fool’s Errand: Mississippi Edition
    … entire year to produce indictments against employers. This is evidence that work‐​site immigration enforcement is an impossibly expensive and laborious mess that should be abandoned. Immigration restrictionists are cheering the indictments as a sign that the government is finally …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • May 15, 2015
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    Will Congress Reform Air Traffic Control?
    … A push to radically reshape the outmoded U.S. air‐​traffic control system is gaining support, as airlines and some labor unions join to back change and a top lawmaker drafts legislation that could effectively privatize services. Rep. Bill Shuster …
    By Chris Edwards
  • December 2, 2014
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    Carbon Dioxide Enrichment of Peach Trees: How Sweet It Is!
    … perform this essential function ever better as atmospheric CO2 levels climb ever higher, a fact demonstrated in literally thousands of laboratory and field studies (see, for example, the Plant Growth Database of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide …
    By Craig D. Idso
  • August 8, 2012
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    Will A Housing Recovery Reignite Hispanic Immigration?
    … to historical ties, proximity, and the dearth of visas for lower skilled workers. The two groups also react differently to labor market opportunities. Unauthorized immigrants, more than three‐​quarters of whom are Hispanic, react more quickly to U.S. labor …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • November 13, 2008
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    Blocking Obama’s Health Plan Is Key to the GOP’s Survival
    … that the core constituencies which elected Obama desperately need. Britain serves as an important political lesson for strategists. After the Labor Party established the National Health Service after World War II, supposedly conservative workers and low‐​income people under religious …
    By Michael F. Cannon
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