Employment Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Dec 15, 2023

These days there are a lot of Christmas dinners with friends, family, or (the most dreaded) coworkers. The latter often result in impossible engagements, layoffs, fights, and drunken intoxications that would make a Viking blush. Many employees hate Christmas dinner…

by | Jul 27, 2023

Anheuser-Busch — the parent company of Bud Light — announced it would be laying off 350 marketing and corporate employees after experiencing plummeting sales following the beer company’s promotion of self-identified transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Consumers quickly expressed their displeasure,…

by | Feb 17, 2022

It all seemed to make sense. Americans were hard workers, but jobs were scarce. So the 1930s Great Depression’s severe unemployment levels seemed the time for the national government to create a New Deal of welfare programs to assist those…

by | Aug 6, 2021

Rarely is the sequence of cause and effect so clear. The current surge of migrants at our southern border is the direct result of the Biden administration eliminating the Trump rules that had once tamed the flow. Gone are the…

by | Jul 29, 2021

Thousands of American workers are facing shrinking wages as Biden-fueled inflation runs rampant across the country. Inflation has cut real wages by 1.7 percent from 2020, slashing Americans’ buying power as the economy begins to come back to life. The…

by | Jun 10, 2021

Controversy erupted Tuesday over a comment made by economist Art Laffer regarding hourly wages. Asked by Fox News anchor Sandra Smith if the minimum wage should rise, Laffer replied that many minimum wage workers “aren’t worth $15.” Some people latched…

by | May 11, 2021

America’s response to COVID-19 has proven to be more harmful to young people than the virus itself. Many young adults are opting out of pursuing post-secondary education and experiencing prolonged bouts of unemployment thanks to changes brought about by the…

by | Apr 18, 2021

I just got back after three days on the road in Ohio and a little bit of West Virginia. I regularly make rounds of food production plants of all sorts to inspect the processes they have asked to be certified…

by | Jun 4, 2020

Spain is the latest country talking about adopting a universal basic income, or UBI, program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many libertarians, including myself, have always been open to the idea of moving away from traditional welfare programs to…

by | Feb 12, 2020

If there is one thing intellectuals from across the conservative ideological spectrum seem to agree upon, it is that market libertarians are unsympathetic to the plight of ordinary people. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) points to how the Joads were treated in John…

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