How Many Lawmakers Advocating $15 Minimum Wage Hire Unpaid Interns
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July 6, 2017 |
| Good morning from Washington, where North Korea's apparently successful missile test provides few good options to President Trump as he travels to Europe for a G-20 summit. Fred Lucas rounds up likely strategies, while Jordan Bernstein and Michaela Dodge argue that the provocation demonstrates the need to spend more on defense. Some lawmakers' intern policies don't match their rhetoric on the minimum wage, Christine Roe discovers. Plus: Madison Laton and Diane Katz on a campus liberal who actually defends free speech, and Paul Diamond on that heartbreaking case of a dying infant in Britain. |
News4 Response Strategies for Trump After North Korea's New Missile Test"When President Obama said North Korea is the most heavily sanctioned, most cut-off nation on earth, he was wrong. The U.S. the EU, and the U.N. applied pressure to Iran that [they] never did to North Korea," says Bruce Klingner of The Heritage Foundation. |
CommentaryThe Tragic Case of Charlie Gard Highlights the Importance of Parental RightsThis case is not about the merits or demerits of certain medical treatment for Charlie, but the power of a judge to overrule the decision of parents on what they deem best for their own child. |
CommentaryA Liberal Democrat Student Explains Why He Advocates Free Speech at Colleges"Is your employer going to say, 'I want to make sure you feel safe today at work, so in this meeting, no one is to say anything'?" asks 21-year-old Zachary Wood. "That's not how the world works." |
CommentaryNorth Korean Missile Threat Proves Need for More Investment in Missile DefenseThis bill would strengthen the United States' ballistic missile defense architecture by expanding the ground-based midcourse defense system, the only U.S. system capable of eliminating an intercontinental ballistic missile during its midcourse phase of flight. |
NewsTrumps Spend $5 Million Less Than Obamas on White House SalariesPresident Trump employs 377 people at the White House for a total of $35.8 million, while President Obama paid $40.9 million for 476 employees in 2015. |
NewsHow Many Lawmakers Advocating $15 Minimum Wage Hire Unpaid Interns"It's hypocritical to rally for a $15 minimum wage when these lawmakers don't pay their own entry-level employees a cent," says Michael Saltsman of the Employment Policies Institute. |
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