President Obama can’t have his ice cream and eat it too
Demonstrators for minimum wage increases for fast-food workers at the state Capitol in Albany on June 17, 2014. Credit: Albany Times Union / John Carl D'Annibale
President Obama recently asked business owners to help create summer jobs for teenagers. He reminisced about his first job at an ice cream parlor and lamented that getting hired is harder than ever for young people. He’s right.
Michael Farren is a research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in its Project for the Study of American Capitalism. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
