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WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Don't price workers out of their jobs.

If your aim is to help low-income workers, there are much better ways to do it than to crank up the minimum wage. Oren Cass has argued for an expansion of earned income tax credits. Andrew Yang argues for a need-blind universal basic income. Whatever the merits of these proposals, at least neither one will mess up opportunities for willing, low-skilled workers.

That’s what matters most. Although a minimum wage increase sounds compassionate, making workers too expensive for their jobs is anything but. It is cruelty masked as sympathy

Liberal 'compassion' stinks.

U.S. LIFE EXPECTANCY has declined for the third year in a row.

[A] new study looked at more than 50 years' worth of data on US life expectancy from the US Mortality Database and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's WONDER database.

Results showed that, in the 1970s, the country experienced a rapid and significant jump in life expectancy. But by the 1990s, that increase started to level off.

In 2011, US life expectancy plateaued, and three years later it started to drop.

From Wikipedia:

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 amendment, it represents the U.S. healthcare system's most significant regulatory overhaul and expansion of coverage since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.

PPACA's major provisions came into force in 2014. By 2016, the uninsured share of the population had roughly halved, with estimates ranging from 20 to 24 million additional people covered. The law also enacted a host of delivery system reforms intended to constrain healthcare costs and improve quality.

But correlation doesn't imply causation ... does it?

More at Instapundit.

'TIS THE SEASON: The Christmas wars begin again.

AND NOT JUST ON THE RELIGIOUS FRONT: Black Friday fights.

'Tis the season ... to be jolly?

JUST WAIT UNTIL NOV.4, 2020: If a SCOTUS vacancy opens up next year, how will Lindsey Graham walk back his promise to hold the seat open?

HE'S LOBBYING HARD(LY) TO RETURN TO THE NFL: Kaepernick speaks at 'Unthanksgiving' celebration, criticizes U.S.

HEH: Kaepernick’s workout may have yielded a tryout, just not for him.

BABYLON BEE SCANDAL: Writers forced to admit they are not real journalists.

SLAVERY? We are a (tiny) footnote in the history of slavery.

TRUMP WINS AGAIN: Climate protesters block stores and disrupt Black Friday shopping.

There's nothing better for Trump's reelection than having a bunch of progressive dolts pissing off normal Americans....

WHY “GREEN” ENERGY is a terrible idea.

Obvious, but math is difficult for progressives.

COLORADO REPEALED THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES so this will work.

A WHITE SUPREMACIST? If Trump is 'racist' for questioning (Rep. Maxine [D-CA]) Waters' IQ, what is Waters for questioning Ben Carson?

WHY I WILL NEVER DARKEN THEIR DOOR: Starbucks barista writes 'Pig' on police officer's cup.