Why? Why Does the Media Routinely Lie About Worker Wages and Compensation?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal is excited: American workers received their biggest pay raises in a nearly decade in the year to June, a sign the strong labor market and low unemployment is boosting wages as employers compete for scarcer workers. The employment-cost index, a measure…
See the Mysterious Fake Facebook Posts that Targeted the Left
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Facebook announced it had uncovered a web of fake accounts and posts targeting Americans. While Facebook says it is unable to firmly attribute the influence campaign to Russian actors, the company has noted that some of the techniques deployed by the accounts are…
Facebook has Uncovered a New Influence Campaign Targeting American Voters
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook has detected an ongoing influence operation targeting Americans with content related to the politically contentious issues of immigration enforcement and white supremacism, first reported Tuesday by the New York Times: “Like the Russian interference campaign in 2016, the recently detected…
Do White People Not Like Working With Latinos?
Jebb Harris/The Orange County Register/ZUMAPRESS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I have two stories for you today. Here is Story #1 from the Wall Street Journal: The share of workers in the [construction] sector who are 24 years old or younger has declined in 48 states since the last housing…
“Collusion Is Not a Crime” Becomes Trump’s Official New Line of Defense
Mark Wilson/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump echoed his lawyer’s questionable assertion that “collusion is not a crime” on Tuesday morning, officially ushering in a new line of defense against the special counsel investigation into his campaign and its links to Russian nationals and officials. For good measure, Trump continued…
Conservative Think Tank Says Medicare For All Would Save $2 Trillion
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s some good news. The libertarians at the Mercatus Center did a cost breakdown of Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All plan and concluded that it would save $2 trillion during its first ten years: Now, as you might guess, this was not the spin the…