Media Mentions – Week of March 2, 2014

Media Mentions – Week of March 2, 2014

Media Mentions – Week of March 2, 2014

SHIFT Washington – News You Can Use: Public Unions Agree Public Should Have Easy Access to Contracts… Not

The Freedom Foundation points out the hypocrisy of certain union officials, who tell the Senate one thing and then tell the House another, all in an effort to keep their employment contracts from being easily accessed.

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The Ben Shapiro Show – Max Nelsen on The Ben Shapiro Show

Freedom Foundation Labor Policy Analyst Max Nelsen talks about the impacts of raising the minimum wage.

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NW Daily Marker – Left-Wing Friendly Fire: Kshama Sawant Slams Obama Admin Study on Economic Damage From Min. Wage Hikes as ‘Right-Wing’

Sawant elected to dismiss and demonize the study as the work of the ‘right-wing think tank’ the Freedom Foundation, when in fact the study was the work of the Obama Administration’s Government Accountability Office.

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Q13 Fox News – Hundreds Turn Out for Seattle’s Town Hall on $15 Minimum Wage Issue

‘I think it’s an idea that would cause more harm than good, to be honest,’ said Max Nelson, a labor policy analyst with the Freedom Foundation. ‘If you force a government mandate on businesses, and they’re stuck trying to work their business model to comply with that, very often it’s the workers who end up getting laid off or having their hours reduced as a side-effect.’

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The Washington Times – Seattle Socialist: Minimum-Wage Discussion Skewed by ‘Right-Wing’ GAO Analysis

We are watching our economy burn down,’ he said, according to Watchdog. He went on to say that the 2011 GAO report didn’t go far enough because it did ‘not adequately, succinctly or clearly convey the magnitude of the worsening economic disaster in American Samoa that has resulted primarily from the imposition of the 2007 U.S. minimum wage mandate.

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The David Boze Show – Kshama Sawant Minimum Wage

[Kshama Sawant] criticized that report and denounced it as being written by that right-wing Freedom Foundation. Well, it was actually written by the Obama Administration’s Government Accountability Office, but the Freedom Foundation was citing the research.

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