Commentary

Study: Obama Recovery Built on Low-Wage Jobs

By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, May 01 2014

Rather than address a labor market increasingly characterized by low-wage jobs, President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress are trying to distract voters by highlighting a series of issues that will do almost nothing to improve economic opportunity. Those issues include votes in the U.S. Senate to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, eliminate the so-called pay gap between men and women and justify greater redistribution policies in the name of fighting income inequality. Each issue is designed to inflict maximum damage on the Republican brand ahead of the 2014 midterm elections…

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