Income growth slows following minimum wage hikes: MLI’s Labour Market Report
OTTAWA, ON (October 19, 2018): The Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Labour Market Report for Q3, 2018, has been released, with key indicators suggesting that minimum wage...
Wynne’s cynical wage hike proves she’s not really on your side: Cross in Financial Post
The government is broke. Therefore, it is trying to mandate that business spend its own money pursuing the government’s goals, writes Munk Senior...
Can't fault Tim Hortons heirs for cutting worker benefits after wage hike: Cross on BNN
Munk Senior Fellow Philip Cross was on BNN to discuss why the Ontario government should have consulted businesses before the minimum wage hike....
“Doing business in Ontario is becoming more and more expensive”, Philip Cross tells BNN
The provincial government’s hike in the minimum wage is one more factor – along with increased electricity costs, more regulation and higher taxes...
Ontario’s minimum wage hike a false choice between compassion and economic sense: Brian Lee Crowley in the Ottawa Citizen
The Ontario government’s decision to raise the minimum wage forces us to choose between compassion for the vulnerable and the economic sense of...
Why the US is getting it right by opposing minimum wage hikes: Philip Cross in the Post
Do minimum wage laws help achieve the goal of less poverty? Does it make sense to impose on businesses the cost of achieving...
Raising the minimum wage hurts vulnerable workers the most: Crowley in the Globe
Writing in the Globe and Mail, Macdonald-Laurier Institute Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley says that Alberta’s newly elected NDP government’s plan to raise...
