CBO Says $15 Minimum Wage Would Be Mostly Positive
The Congressional Budget Office has published a new report on the $15 minimum wage.¹ Unusually for the CBO, it was a little hard to dig out all the relevant numbers, which means I had to read the whole thing fairly carefully. That’s very annoying, isn’t it? Anyway, here are the main takeaways: Families below the…
The Essence Magazine Festival Is Now Apparently a Mandatory Campaign Stop Ahead of 2020
Kamala Harris on stage at the 25th annual Essence Festival.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)/Associated Press For 25 years, Essence Magazine’s annual New Orleans music festival has been a premiere destination for black women who want to take in some culture and maybe go on a girl’s trip. This year, the festival also played host to the Democratic…
Disgraced Trump Fundraiser Elliott Broidy Is Reportedly Being Investigated. Read Our Story on Him.
David Karp/AP On Monday morning, the Associated Press reported that disgraced Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy is being investigated by the US attorney in Brooklyn, New York, for possibly using Broidy’s ties to Donald Trump and the GOP to score big-money business deals with foreign leaders, including officials in Angola and Romania. The AP notes that…
Trump: Brexit Would Have Gone Better If They’d Listened to Trump
After the Mail on Sunday published leaked cables from the UK ambassador calling Donald Trump clumsy and inept, it was inevitable that Trump would reply: I have been very critical about the way the U.K. and Prime Minister Theresa May handled Brexit. What a mess she and her representatives have created. I told her how…
The White House Denied Me Access to Trump’s Environmental Speech
Al Drago/Pool/CNP via ZUMA President Donald Trump will be delivering a speech on America’s environmental leadership on Monday afternoon, alongside EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler, in which he’s expected to tout how much he’s done for clean air and clean water. It’s an unusual subject for him to give a speech about—Axios called it a “Javanka…
Raw Data: One-Third of Students Graduate From Community College
After I wrote about my take on free college for all, I got an email from a policy expert who had a lot to say about our current educational system. This might turn into a post someday, but one thing he mentioned struck me as surprising: I have talked with many community college presidents and…