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Largest restaurant job losses since the Great Recession

August 15, 2015 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

(First posted at Sound Politics) Mark Perry, a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus, has been looking at Seattle’s employment numbers and noticed that following the April increase in the minimum wage to $11, we experienced the largest one month drop in restaurant jobs since the Great Recession. As […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: minimum wage, seattle

Thalidomide, the Precautionary Principle and Global Warming

August 9, 2015 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

Dr. Frances Kelsey, a physician and pharmacologist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration who was credited with largely averting the tragedy wrought by thalidomide in other parts of the world, passed away on Friday at the age of 101. As the Washington Post reported, she held up its approval and helped gather evidence of the […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: climate change, global warming

Why these videos are “disturbing”

August 5, 2015 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

Hillary Clinton deserves credit for her reaction to the Planned Parenthood videos.  “I have seen pictures from them and obviously find them disturbing.” So much so that she supports a national investigation. Other people who’ve watched them tell me they’ve felt physically ill. It’s no wonder the Washington Post labeled the first one as containing graphic […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: abortion, Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, George Will, Hillary Clinton, Planned Parenthood, Ramesh Ponnuru

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I’m Nicholas, a marketing consultant and dad in Dallas, TX. I like to follow policy debates, chat about parenting and share stories. Read More…

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