“Consider This!” Podcast, Episode 31: Raising the Minimum Wage Won’t Help Much, and Could Actually Make Things Worse

The latest episode of the “Consider This!” podcast is out; let’s talk politics in 10 minutes or less. In this episode, I have a one-track mind. In the President’s State of the Union address, he proposed increasing the minimum wage by about 25% to $9 an hour, as though this will somehow defeat poverty. The fact is, […]