Businesses generally deal with minimum wage increases by finding efficiencies in their business practices or slightly increasing prices if they have …

- David Rolf

Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

- David Rolf

The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions like nu…

- David Rolf

People decide what markets should do - they are not a force of nature.

- David Rolf

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

- David Rolf

The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least po…

- David Rolf

The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (

- David Rolf

Most fast-food workers can't easily join a union, because they don't work directly for their parent company, such as McDonald's or Subway. Instead, t…

- David Rolf

When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover costs. This puts mo…

- David Rolf